Genomics can reveal essential features about the demographic evolution of a population
that may not be apparent from historical elements. In recent years, there has been a …

For over ten years, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America has been an essential text for
students studying the region. This second edition adds new material and brings the analysis …

In the 1970s and 1980s, rubber tappers in the western Amazonian state ofAcre achieved the
status of environmental icons, and secured remarkablepolicy goals. Specifically, they gained …

The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in
Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. In Scripts of Blackness, Isar P …

Chattel slavery was a practice found throughout all of the Americas, lasting for hundreds of
years and contributing to the assumed a-spatiality of the populations of African descent …

The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between
civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not …

In this article, I examine systems of care aimed at improving citizens and ruined colonial
buildings in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil's Pelourinho World Heritage Site. Such UNESCO …

While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin
America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond …

Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book Prize In
1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcântara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art …

The years between 2006 and 2015, during which Evo Morales became Bolivia's first
indigenous president, have been described as a time of democratic and cultural revolution …