The history of US academics involved in espionage highlights a modern risk. Review: Scientists or Spies? The American Museum of Natural History in World War I Latin America, Roberta Marx Delson, 2026, Springer
Categories: Central America, Mexico, South America, United States
Political turmoil in Bolivia hints at a paradigm shift. Review: Bolivia and the Making of the Global Indigenous Movement: Anthropology, Development and Transnationalism, Juanita Roca-Sánchez, 2025, Routledge
Categories: Bolivia
A study of racial politics mounts a challenge to area studies. Review: Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico, Andrea Mendoza, 2026, Duke University Press
Puerto Ricans offer lessons for Latin Americans in the UK seeking recognition. Review: White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago, Michael Staudenmaier, 2026, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, United States
A Cuban crucible of internationalism holds lessons for the left. Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns, Frances Peace Sullivan, 2025, University Press of Florida
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, North America, United States
If nations had psychotherapists, Argentina would be visiting weekly. A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present, Ezequiel Adamovsky, translated by Rebecca Wolpin, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Argentina, South America
Education is key to Indigenous progress in Bolivia—and the racist, US-backed white elite cannot turn the tide. Review: The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia, by Brooke Larson
Categories: Bolivia, South America
US motives for intervening in the Cuban war of independence were never based on the humanitarian goals of popular imagination. Review of Colonial Reckoning by Louis Pérez
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Europe, Haiti, International, North America, Puerto Rico, Spain, United States
