Latin America

Ex Mex

From Migrants to Immigrants

Jorge G. Castañeda

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “timely consideration” (Publishers Weekly) of the crucial, controversial, and complex issues surrounding Mexican immigration to the United States, by Mexico’s former foreign minister

Latin America After Neoliberalism

Turning the Tide in the 21st Century?

Edited by Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL A primer on the social and economic changes sweeping across contemporary Latin America

The Mexican Revolution

Adolfo Gilly

NOW IN PAPERBACK The classic account of the Mexican Revolution from the acclaimed author

Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior

A Firsthand Account of Atrocity

Horacio Verbitsky

Published to coincide with the first Argentine war crimes trials, a new edition of what Eduardo Galeano calls “the best book about the worst crimes”

Evita

In My Own Words

Eva Perón

Edited by Joseph A. Page

A new edition of the controversial “deathbed manuscript” attributed to Eva Perón

The Condor Years

How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

John Dinges

The headline-grabbing story of the covert, international “anti-terrorist” network responsible for South America’s worst human rights abuses

The Pinochet File

A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

Peter Kornbluh

NOW IN PAPERBACK Updated with newly declassified documents, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2003

Lula and the Workers Party in Brazil

Sue Branford, Bernardo Kucinski

A new edition examining the electoral victory and record of the left government in Latin America’s largest country

Law in a Lawless Land

Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia

Michael Taussig

A disturbing chronicle of the terror and uncertainty of daily life in Colombia's American-funded civil war.

Perpetuating Power

How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen

Jorge G. Castañeda

NOW IN PAPERBACK The widely acclaimed explication of Mexican politics from “one of the most insightful Mexican intellectuals” (The New York Times Book Review)

Fear in Chile

Lives Under Pinochet

Patricia Politzer

NOW IN PAPERBACK first-person accounts of life in Pinochet’s Chile—“the perfect epitaph to a violent dictatorship” (Library Journal).

Rebellion in Chiapas

An Historical Reader

John Womack Jr.

An acclaimed historian of Mexico traces the roots of the current crisis in Chiapas using primary source documents.

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

A National Security Archive Documents Reader

Edited by Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh

The first paperback edition of the popular primary source reader, including many newly released documents. 

Bay of Pigs Declassified

The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba

Edited by Peter Kornbluh

Now available for the first time, "one of the most secret documents of the Cold War" (New York Times): the government's own report of the Bay of Pigs fiasco

The Spears of Twilight

Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle

Philippe Descola

"A massive classic of modern anthropology...that reads better than most fiction" (The Guardian, London). A Choice Ourstanding Academic Book.

Edge of the Knife

Police Violence in the Americas

Paul Chevigny

The country's leading expert examines police brutality in New York, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Kingston, Jamaica

Recipe of Memory

Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine

Victor M. Valle, Mary Lau Valle

Nominated for two Julia Child Cookbook Awards and a James Beard Award, a nonfiction Like Water for Chocolate that explores one Mexican-American family's legacy of folklore, migration, and, of course, food.

The Mexican Shock

Its Meaning for the United States

Jorge G. Castañeda

"The leading Mexican voice in the U.S. media" (In These Times) on politics and economics in Mexico and their effects on the U.S.

Shades of L.A.

Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums

Carolyn Kozo Cole, Kathy Kobayashi

A diverse photographic portrait of Los Angeles as seen through the city's family albums.

Stubborn Hope

Religion, Politics, and Revolution in Central America

Phillip Berryman

An essential primer on the relationship between religion and politics in Central America.

English Is Broken Here

Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas

Coco Fusco



Mexican Lives

Judith Adler Hellman

A moving and insightful look into the daily struggles of a cross-section of Mexicans.

A Piece of My Heart/Pedacito de mi corazón

The Art of Carmen Lomas Garza

Carmen Lomas Garza

Paintings by a leading Chicana artist.
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