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  • Prizefighting and Civilization

    A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940

    by David C. LaFevor ...
    In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840–1940, historian David C. LaFevor traces the history of pugilism in Mexico and Cuba from its controversial beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through its exponential rise in popularity during the early twentieth century. A divisive subculture that was both a profitable blood sport ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Deportation in the Americas

    Histories of Exclusion and Resistance

    by Rachel Ida Buff, Donna R. Gabaccia, David LaFevor, Natalia Molina, Emily Pope-Obeda, Pablo Yankelevich, Elliot Young ...
    Series series Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    In Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance, editors Kenyon Zimmer and Cristina Salinas have compiled seven essays, adapted from the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that deeply consider deportation policy in the Americas and its global effects.These thoughtful pieces significantly contribute to a growing historiography on deportation within immigration ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Third Century

    U.S.–Latin American Relations since 1889

    by Mark T. Gilderhus, David C. LaFevor, Michael J. LaRosa ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This text focuses on U.S. relations with Latin America from the advent of the New Diplomacy late in the nineteenth century to the present. Providing a balanced perspective, it presents both the United States’ view that the Western Hemisphere needed to unite under a common democratic, capitalistic society and the Latin American countries’ response to U.S. attempts to impose these goals on its ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • Impossible Subjects

    Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition

    by Mae M. Ngai ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cuban Revolution

    by Luis Fernando Ayerbe ...
    For more than fifty years, the revolutionary experience in Cuba was the stage for such re markable personalities as Che Guevara and for dramatic events like the missile crisis. All these 20th century historic icons are interwoven with the deep internal restructuring of the Cuban economy and society, and the related challenge to the United States' prior unopposed hegemony over Latin America. The ... Read more

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  • Confronting the American Dream

    Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule

    by Michel Gobat, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912–33. Drawing on extensive research in Nicaraguan and U.S. archives, Gobat accounts for two seeming paradoxes that have long eluded ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • We Cannot Remain Silent

    Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States

    by Daniel J. Walkowitz, James N. Green ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In 1964, Brazil’s democratically elected, left-wing government was ousted in a coup and replaced by a military junta. The Johnson administration quickly recognized the new government. The U.S. press and members of Congress were nearly unanimous in their support of the “revolution” and the coup leaders’ anticommunist agenda. Few Americans were aware of the human rights abuses perpetrated by Brazil ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Radicals in the Barrio

    Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class

    by Justin Akers Chacón ...
    Radicals in the Barrio uncovers a long and rich history of political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class in the United States. Chacón clearly and sympathetically documents the ways that migratory workers carried with them radical political ideologies, new organizational models, and shared class experience, as they crossed the border into southwestern barrios during the first ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Chicano Popular Culture, Second Edition

    Que Hable el Pueblo

    by Charles M. Tatum ...
    Series series The Mexican American Experience
    Chicano Popular Culture, Second Edition provides a fascinating, timely, and accessible introduction to Chicano cultural expression and representation. New sections discuss music, with an emphasis on hip-hop and rap; cinema and filmmakers; media, including the contributions of Jorge Ramos and María Hinojosa; and celebrations and other popular traditions, including quinceañeras, cincuentañeras, and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Three Nights In Havana

    Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World

    by Robert Wright ...
    On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. “Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!” Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Golazo!

    The Beautiful Game from the Aztecs to the World Cup: The Complete History of HowSoccer Shaped Latin America

    by Andreas Campomar ...
    The definitive book about the national identities, heroes, and dramatic stories from Latin American soccer throughout history, perfect for World Cup reading.“Golazo!” means “amazing goal!” And the word perfectly captures the unique, exuberant, all-encompassing, passionate role that soccer plays in Latin America.Andreas Campomar offers readers the definitive history of Latin American soccer from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A History of the Cuban Revolution

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series series Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
    A History of the Cuban Revolution presents a concise socio-historical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, an event that continues to spark debate 50 years later.Balances a comprehensive overview of the political and economic events of the revolution with a look at the revolution’s social impactProvides a lively, on-the-ground look at the lives of ordinary peopleFeatures both U.S. and Cuban ... Read more

    $86.00 USD