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	Marxism in Latin America edited by Aguilar, Luis E. 412 pp • 4x7 • Spring 1978 paper 0-87722-108-1 EAN 978-0-87722-108-1 cloth 0-87722-106-5 EAN 978-0-87722-106-7 Excerpt available
	Living in the Crossfire Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro Alves, Maria Helena Moreira and Philip Evanson 254 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2011 paper 1-4399-0004-3 EAN 978-1-4399-0004-8 cloth 1-4399-0003-5 EAN 978-1-4399-0003-1 Excerpt available
	Merengue Dominican Music and Dominican Identity Austerlitz, Paul, foreword by Robert Farris Thompson 224 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1996 paper 1-56639-484-8 EAN 978-1-56639-484-0 cloth 1-56639-483-X EAN 978-1-56639-483-3 Excerpt available
	Liberation Theology Essential Facts about the Revolutionary Religious Movement in Latin America and Beyond Berryman, Phillip 240 pp • 5x8 • Spring 1987 cloth 0-87722-479-X EAN 978-0-87722-479-2
	Borderless Borders U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence edited by Bonilla, Frank, Edwin Meléndez, Rebecca Morales and María de los Angeles Torres 336 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1998 paper 1-56639-620-4 EAN 978-1-56639-620-2 cloth 1-56639-619-0 EAN 978-1-56639-619-6 Excerpt available
	Women in the Latin American Development Process edited by Bose, Christine E. and Edna Acosta-Belén 304 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995 paper 1-56639-293-4 EAN 978-1-56639-293-8 cloth 1-56639-292-6 EAN 978-1-56639-292-1 Excerpt available
	Between Race and Empire African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution edited by Brock, Lisa and Digna Casteñada Fuertes, foreword by Manning Marable 289 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1998 paper 1-56639-587-9 EAN 978-1-56639-587-8 cloth 1-56639-586-0 EAN 978-1-56639-586-1 Excerpt available
	Maya In Exile Guatemalans in Florida Burns, Allan F., introduction by Jerónimo Camposeco 256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1993 paper 1-56639-036-2 EAN 978-1-56639-036-1 cloth 1-56639-035-4 EAN 978-1-56639-035-4
	Economies of Desire Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic Cabezas, Amalia L. 232 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2009 paper 1-59213-750-4 EAN 978-1-59213-750-3 cloth 1-59213-749-0 EAN 978-1-59213-749-7 Excerpt available
	I Remember Julia Voices of the Disappeared Carlson, Eric Stener 240 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1996 paper 1-56639-437-6 EAN 978-1-56639-437-6 cloth 1-56639-430-9 EAN 978-1-56639-430-7 Excerpt available
	Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States Essays on Incorporation, Identity, and Citizenship edited by Cervantes-Rodriguez, Margarita, Ramon Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants 270 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2008 cloth 1-59213-954-X EAN 978-1-59213-954-5 Excerpt available
	Muchachas No More Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean edited by Chaney, Elsa M. and Mary Garcia Castro 520 pp • Fall 1988 paper 0-87722-835-3 EAN 978-0-87722-835-6 cloth 0-87722-571-0 EAN 978-0-87722-571-3
	Reggae Routes The Story of Jamaican Music Chang, Kevin O’Brien and Wayne Chen 256 pp • 6.75x9.25 • Spring 1998 paper 1-56639-629-8 EAN 978-1-56639-629-5 Excerpt available
	Urban Leviathan Mexico City in the Twentieth Century Davis, Diane E. 424 pp • 6x9.25 • Spring 1994 paper 1-56639-151-2 EAN 978-1-56639-151-1 cloth 1-56639-150-4 EAN 978-1-56639-150-4 Excerpt available
	Unraveling the Real The Fantastic in Spanish-American Ficciones Duncan, Cynthia 280 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2010 paper 1-4399-0241-0 EAN 978-1-4399-0241-7 cloth 1-4399-0240-2 EAN 978-1-4399-0240-0 Excerpt available
	Taxes and State Power Political Instability in Bolivia, 1900-1950 Gallo, Carmenza 200 pp • Spring 1991 cloth 0-87722-800-0 EAN 978-0-87722-800-4
	Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music Garcia, David F. 224 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2006 paper 1-59213-386-X EAN 978-1-59213-386-4 cloth 1-59213-385-1 EAN 978-1-59213-385-7 Excerpt available
	Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America edited by Garrard-Burnett, Virginia and David Stoll 240 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993 paper 1-56639-103-2 EAN 978-1-56639-103-0 cloth 1-56639-102-4 EAN 978-1-56639-102-3 Excerpt available
	Lucia Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman Gay, Robert 240 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2005 paper 1-59213-339-8 EAN 978-1-59213-339-0 cloth 1-59213-338-X EAN 978-1-59213-338-3 Excerpt available
	Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio De Janeiro A Tale of Two Favelas Gay, Robert 208 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993 paper 1-56639-120-2 EAN 978-1-56639-120-7 cloth 1-56639-119-9 EAN 978-1-56639-119-1 Excerpt available
	Free Trade and Uneven Development The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA edited by Gereffi, Gary, David Spener and Jennifer Bair 368 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2002 paper 1-56639-968-8 EAN 978-1-56639-968-5 cloth 1-56639-967-X EAN 978-1-56639-967-8 Excerpt available
	The Effects of the Nation Mexican Art in an Age of Globalization edited by Good, Carl and John V. Waldron 232 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2001 paper 1-56639-866-5 EAN 978-1-56639-866-4 cloth 1-56639-865-7 EAN 978-1-56639-865-7 Excerpt available
	Fishers at Work, Workers at Sea A Puerto Rican Journey through Labor and Refuge Griffith, David and Manuel Valdés Pizzini 280 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2001 paper 1-56639-911-4 EAN 978-1-56639-911-1 cloth 1-56639-910-6 EAN 978-1-56639-910-4 Excerpt available
	Deciding to be Legal A Maya Community in Houston Hagan, Jacqueline Maria 224 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1994 paper 1-56639-257-8 EAN 978-1-56639-257-0 cloth 1-56639-256-X EAN 978-1-56639-256-3
	Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English Hebblethwaite, Benjamin 396 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011 paper 1-4399-0602-5 EAN 978-1-4399-0602-6 cloth 1-4399-0601-7 EAN 978-1-4399-0601-9 Excerpt available
	Bachata A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music Hernandez, Deborah Pacini 296 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995 paper 1-56639-300-0 EAN 978-1-56639-300-3 cloth 1-56639-299-3 EAN 978-1-56639-299-0
	Mayan Drifter Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of America Herrera, Juan Felipe 330 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1996 paper 1-56639-482-1 EAN 978-1-56639-482-6 cloth 1-56639-481-3 EAN 978-1-56639-481-9 Excerpt available
	Ethical Borders NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration Hing, Bill Ong 248 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2010 paper 1-59213-925-6 EAN 978-1-59213-925-5 cloth 1-59213-924-8 EAN 978-1-59213-924-8 Excerpt available
	Selecting Women, Electing Women Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America Hinojosa, Magda 240 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012 paper 1-4399-0848-6 EAN 978-1-4399-0848-8 cloth 1-4399-0847-8 EAN 978-1-4399-0847-1 Excerpt available
	Cold War in a Hot Zone The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies Horne, Gerald 272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2007 paper 1-59213-628-1 EAN 978-1-59213-628-5 cloth 1-59213-627-3 EAN 978-1-59213-627-8 Excerpt available
	Spirits, Blood, and Drums The Orisha Religion in Trinidad Houk, James T. 256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1995 paper 1-56639-350-7 EAN 978-1-56639-350-8 cloth 1-56639-349-3 EAN 978-1-56639-349-2 Excerpt available
	Where Rivers Meet the Sea The Political Ecology of Water Kane, Stephanie C. 246 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012 paper 1-4399-0931-8 EAN 978-1-4399-0931-7 cloth 1-4399-0930-X EAN 978-1-4399-0930-0 Excerpt available
	Another Arabesque Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil Karam, John Tofik 232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006 paper 1-59213-540-4 EAN 978-1-59213-540-0 cloth 1-59213-539-0 EAN 978-1-59213-539-4
	The International Monetary Fund and Latin America The Argentine Puzzle in Context Kedar, Claudia 264 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2012 cloth 1-4399-0909-1 EAN 978-1-4399-0909-6
	Searching for Mr. Chin Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature Lee-Loy, Anne-Marie 198 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 2010 cloth 1-43990-130-9 EAN 978-1-43990-130-4 Excerpt available
	Democracy and Development in Latin America Economics, Politics and Religion in the Post-War Period Lehmann, David 272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1990 paper 1-56639-011-7 EAN 978-1-56639-011-8 cloth 0-87722-723-3 EAN 978-0-87722-723-6
	The Maya Diaspora Guatemalan Roots, New American Lives edited by Loucky, James and Marilyn M. Moors 248 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2000 paper 1-56639-795-2 EAN 978-1-56639-795-7 cloth 1-56639-794-4 EAN 978-1-56639-794-0 Excerpt available
	Machos, Maricones, and Gays Cuba and Homosexuality Lumsden, Ian 304 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1995 paper 1-56639-371-X EAN 978-1-56639-371-3 cloth 1-56639-370-1 EAN 978-1-56639-370-6 Excerpt available
	Sounds of the Modern Nation Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico Madrid, Alejandro L. 224 pp • 5.25x8.25• Fall 2008 cloth 1-59213-694-X EAN 978-1-59213-694-0 Excerpt available
	Caribbean Currents Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae Manuel, Peter with Kenneth Bilby and Michael Largey 336 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2006 paper 1-56639-339-6 EAN 978-1-56639-339-3 cloth 1-56639-338-8 EAN 978-1-56639-338-6 Excerpt available
	Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean edited by Manuel, Peter 288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2009 paper 1-59213-735-0 EAN 978-1-59213-735-0 cloth 1-59213-734-2 EAN 978-1-59213-734-3 Excerpt available
	Coping with Poverty Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities in Brazil Mariz, Cecília Loreto 208 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993 paper 1-56639-113-X EAN 978-1-56639-113-9 cloth 1-56639-112-1 EAN 978-1-56639-112-2
	Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign Martínez-Ruiz, Bárbaro 240 pp • 7x10 • Spring 2013 cloth 1-4399-0816-8 EAN 978-1-4399-0816-7
	Bacchanal! The Carnival Culture of Trinidad Mason, Peter 192 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1998 paper 1-56639-663-8 EAN 978-1-56639-663-9 cloth 1-56639-662-X EAN 978-1-56639-662-2
	The Politics of the Possible The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985 Maybury-Lewis, Biorn 320 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1994 paper 1-56639-167-9 EAN 978-1-56639-167-2 cloth 1-56639-166-0 EAN 978-1-56639-166-5
	The Brazilian Sound Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil McGowan, Chris and Ricardo Pessanha Revised and Expanded Edition 280 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2008 paper 1-59213-929-9 EAN 978-1-59213-929-38 cloth 1-59213-928-0 EAN 978-1-59213-928-6 Excerpt available
	Afro-Caribbean Religions An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions Murrell, N. Samuel 440 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2009 paper 1-4399-0041-8 EAN 978-1-4399-0041-3 cloth 1-4399-0040-X EAN 978-1-4399-0040-6 Excerpt available
	Chanting Down Babylon The Rastafari Reader edited by Murrell, N. Samuel, William D. Spencer and Adrian Anthony McFarlane 467 pp • 7x10 • Fall 1998 paper 1-56639-584-4 EAN 978-1-56639-584-7 cloth 1-56639-583-6 EAN 978-1-56639-583-0 Excerpt available
	The Sorcery of Color Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil Nascimento, Elisa Larkin 336 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006 paper 1-59213-351-7 EAN 978-1-59213-351-2 cloth 1-59213-350-9 EAN 978-1-59213-350-5 Excerpt available
	Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala Navarrete Pellicer, Sergio 288 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2005 paper 1-59213-292-8 EAN 978-1-59213-292-8 cloth 1-59213-291-X EAN 978-1-59213-291-1 Excerpt available
	Puerto Rican Women and Work Bridges in Transnational Labor edited by Ortiz, Altagracia 272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1996 paper 1-56639-451-1 EAN 978-1-56639-451-2 cloth 1-56639-450-3 EAN 978-1-56639-450-5 Excerpt available
	Mexican Voices of the Border Region Ortiz, Laura Velasco and Oscar F. Contreras, with translations by Sandra del Castillo 238 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2011 paper 978-1-59213-909-5 EAN 1-59213-909-4 cloth 1-59213-908-6 EAN 978-1-59213-908-8 Excerpt available
	Theologies and Liberation in Peru The Role of Ideas in Social Movements Peña, Milagros 240 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1995 cloth 1-56639-294-2 EAN 978-1-56639-294-5
	Specular City Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space in Buenos Aires, 1955-1973 Podalsky, Laura 304 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2003 paper 1-56639-948-3 EAN 978-1-56639-948-7 cloth 1-56639-947-5 EAN 978-1-56639-947-0 Excerpt available
	Nothing, Nobody The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake Poniatowska, Elena, translated by Aurora Camacho de Schmidt, foreword by Arthur Schmidt 384 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1995 paper 1-56639-345-0 EAN 978-1-56639-345-4 cloth 1-56639-344-2 EAN 978-1-56639-344-7 Excerpt available
	Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico Roy-Féquière, Magali 328 pp • 6.875x10 • Fall 2003 paper 1-59213-231-6 EAN 978-1-59213-231-7 cloth 1-59213-230-8 EAN 978-1-59213-230-0 Excerpt available
	Shantytown Protest in Pinochet’s Chile Schneider, Cathy Lisa 296 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1995 paper 1-56639-306-X EAN 978-1-56639-306-5 cloth 1-56639-305-1 EAN 978-1-56639-305-8 Excerpt available
	Uruguay Nunca Más Human Rights Violations, 1972-1985 Servicio Paz y Justicia, , translated by Elizabeth Hampsten, introduction by Lawrence Wechsler 360 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992 paper 1-56639-146-6 EAN 978-1-56639-146-7 cloth 0-87722-953-8 EAN 978-0-87722-953-7 Excerpt available
	Xuxa The Mega-Marketing of Gender, Race, and Modernity Simpson, Amelia 256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1993 paper 1-56639-107-5 EAN 978-1-56639-107-8 cloth 1-56639-101-6 EAN 978-1-56639-101-6 Excerpt available
	The Early Colombian Labor Movement Artisans and Politics in Bogota, 1832-1919 Sowell, David 272 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1992 cloth 0-87722-965-1 EAN 978-0-87722-965-0
	The Protection Racket State Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador Stanley, William 344 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1996 paper 1-56639-392-2 EAN 978-1-56639-392-8 cloth 1-56639-391-4 EAN 978-1-56639-391-1 Excerpt available
	Free Trade? Informal Economies at the U.S.-Mexico Border Staudt, Kathleen 256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 1997 paper 1-56639-568-2 EAN 978-1-56639-568-7 cloth 1-56639-567-4 EAN 978-1-56639-567-0 Excerpt available
	Return of Guatemala's Refugees Reweaving the Torn Taylor, Clark 248 pp • 5.5x8.2 • Spring 1998 paper 1-56639-622-0 EAN 978-1-56639-622-6 cloth 1-56639-621-2 EAN 978-1-56639-621-9 Excerpt available
	By Heart/De Memoria Cuban Women's Journeys In and Out of Exile edited by Torres, María de los Angeles 208 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Fall 2002 paper 1-59213-011-9 EAN 978-1-59213-011-5 cloth 1-59213-010-0 EAN 978-1-59213-010-8 Excerpt available
	El Salvador in the Eighties Counterinsurgency and Revolution Uclés, Mario Lungo, introduction by Arthur Schmidt, translated by Amelia F. Shogan 256 pp • 5.5x8.25 • Spring 1996 paper 1-56639-432-5 EAN 978-1-56639-432-1 cloth 1-56639-431-7 EAN 978-1-56639-431-4
	Surviving Mexico's Dirty War A Political Prisoner's Memoir Ulloa Bornemann, Alberto, edited by Arthur Schmidt and Aurora Camacho de Schmidt 232 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2006 paper 1-59213-423-8 EAN 978-1-59213-423-6 cloth 1-59213-422-X EAN 978-1-59213-422-9 Excerpt available
	My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary Reflections of a Former Guerrillera Vásquez Perdomo, María Eugenia, translated by Lorena Terando, introduction by Arthur Schmidt 312 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2004 paper 1-59213-101-8 EAN 978-1-59213-101-3 cloth 1-59213-100-X EAN 978-1-59213-100-6 Excerpt available
	Drumming for the Gods The Life and Times of Felipe García Villamil, santero, palero, and abakuá Vélez, María Teresa 256 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1999 paper 1-56639-731-6 EAN 978-1-56639-731-5 cloth 1-56639-730-8 EAN 978-1-56639-730-8 Excerpt available
	Forgotten Conquests Rereading New World History from the Margins Verdesio, Gustavo 216 pp • 7x10 • Fall 2000 paper 1-56639-834-7 EAN 978-1-56639-834-3 cloth 1-56639-833-9 EAN 978-1-56639-833-6
	Troubling Gender Youth and Cumbia in Argentina's Music Scene Vila, Pablo and Pablo Semán, contributions by Eloísa Martín and María Julia Carozzi 230 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2011 paper 1-4399-0267-4 EAN 978-1-4399-0267-7 cloth 1-4399-0266-6 EAN 978-1-4399-0266-0 Excerpt available
	Sounding Salsa Performing Latin Music in New York City Washburne, Christopher 272 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2008 paper 1-59213-316-9 EAN 978-1-59213-316-1 cloth 1-59213-315-0 EAN 978-1-59213-315-4 Excerpt available
	Return of the Indian Conquest and Revival in the Americas Wearne, Phillip, foreword by Rigoberta Menchu 264 pp • 7.5x9.5 • Fall 1996 paper 1-56639-501-1 EAN 978-1-56639-501-4 cloth 1-56639-500-3 EAN 978-1-56639-500-7
	Paying the Price Ignacio Ellacuría and the Murdered Jesuits of El Salvador Whitfield, Teresa, foreword by Alvaro de Soto 528 pp • 6x9 • Fall 1994 paper 1-56639-253-5 EAN 978-1-56639-253-2 cloth 1-56639-252-7 EAN 978-1-56639-252-5 Excerpt available
	Whose National Music? Identity, Mestizaje, and Migration in Ecuador Wong, Ketty 268 pp • 6x9 • Spring 2012 cloth 1-4399-0057-4 EAN 978-1-4399-0057-4>
	Producing Power Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace Yelvington, Kevin A. 304 pp • 6x9 • Spring 1995 paper 1-56639-286-1 EAN 978-1-56639-286-0 cloth 1-56639-285-3 EAN 978-1-56639-285-3 Excerpt available
	The Coolie Speaks Yun, Lisa 336 pp • 6x9 • Fall 2007 paper 1-59213-582-X EAN 978-1-59213-582-0 cloth 1-59213-581-1 EAN 978-1-59213-581-3 Excerpt available



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