Latin American & Latino/Latina Studies

A Compact History of Latin America's Cold War

A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence

Race and Transnationalism in the Americas

Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints: Latin America Since Independence

Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean : An Environment and Development Approach

Food and Revolution: Fighting Hunger in Nicaragua, 1960-1993

The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers & History in Latin America

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World

Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America: Collective Action in the Digital Age

Self-Defense in Mexico : Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars

Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants

Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico

LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements

Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class

Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean, 1850-1902

Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States

In this affecting and innovative global history--starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.S. southern border--Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children. At first a series of ad hoc Cold War-era initiatives, such policy grew into a more broadly conceived set of programs that claim universal humanitarian goals. But the cold reality is that decisions about which endangered minors are allowed entry to the United States have always been and continue to be driven primarily by a "geopolitics of compassion" that imagines these children essentially as tools of political statecraft. Even after the creation of the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors program in 1980, the federal government has failed to see migrant children as individual rights-bearing subjects. The claims of these children, especially those who are poor, nonwhite, and non-Christian, continue to be evaluated not in terms of their unique circumstances but rather in terms of broader implications for migratory flows from their homelands. This book urgently demonstrates that U.S. policy must evolve in order to ameliorate the desperate needs of unaccompanied children.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition

Los Angeles Times Bestseller How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover? The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy. In this shocking expos, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation. EHMs are highly paid professionals who use development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests. Now, a new EHM wave is infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China, a newly dominant economic power, with its own insidious version of the US EHM blueprint. Twelve explosive new chapters detail the allure, exploitation, and wreckage of China's EHM strategy in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. If allowed to continue its rampage, the EHM strategy-whether executed by the United States or China-will destroy life as we know it. However, all is not lost. Perkins offers a plan for transforming this system that places profits above all into a Life Economy that restores the earth. He inspires readers to take actions toward a new era of global cooperation that will end the United States's and China's EHM strategies for good.

Negotiating Space in Latin America

Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas

Espiritismo: Puerto Rican Mediumship & Magic