Guyana once provided revolutionary hope for African Americans. Review: A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s, Russell Rickford, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Guyana, United States
Authoritarian populism in Brazil is both new—and old. Review: The Faces of Authoritarianism and Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Brazil, edited by Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos and Katerina Hatzikidi, 2025, UCL Press
Categories: Brazil, South America
Studying abroad has been an elite status symbol that has damaged sovereignty. Review: The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico’s Foreign-Educated Elite, Rachel Grace Newman, 2026, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, United Kingdom, United States
Puerto Rico’s colonial status made its debt crisis inevitable. Review: Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, David Skeel, 2026, Paul Dry Books
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
An old US predilection for finger-pointing underpins a new study of its neighbour. Review: The Making of Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Transformation, Pamela K Starr, 2026, Polity Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Two books place Latin America in the vanguard of climate debates. Reviews: Contesting the Climate Unthinkable: Latin American Cultural Responses to a Warming World; and The Climate Trial: Law and Justice on a Melting Planet
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Europe, International, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South America
Labour migration has posed significant policy challenges for Mexico. Review: Caught in the Current: Mexico’s Struggle to Regulate Emigration, Irvin Ibarguen, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico
The impact of the Tren Maya challenges academic narratives about Indigenous politics. Review: Roads to Prosperity and Ruin: Infrastructure and the Making of Neoliberal Yucatán, Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Mexico
