Latin America Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/latin-america/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Latin America Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/latin-america/ 32 32 To Understand Aztecs, Listen to Them https://www.publicbooks.org/to-understand-aztecs-listen-to-them/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:00:47 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54236 Have we who study Indigenous languages only succeeded in making things worse? And if this has happened, is there any way out?

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]]> Borders Kill, but Not the Passport Privileged https://www.publicbooks.org/borders-kill-but-not-the-passport-privileged/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:00:41 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53342 In her new book, Belén Fernández is driven by an urge to expose empire’s death-making machine, even if it means exposing her own absurd participation in it.

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]]> Escape from Earth: Raquel Forner’s Space Paintings https://www.publicbooks.org/escape-from-earth-raquel-forners-space-paintings/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52954 If the iconic NASA astronaut is a confident (male) neo-colonist, Forner’s Astronauts are infantile, unprotected, vulnerable.

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]]> They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enríquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra https://www.publicbooks.org/theyre-not-metaphorical-demons-mariana-enriquez-and-magali-armillas-tisyera/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:00:53 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52561 “As a horror trope, the child is always scary. It turns our notions of purity, innocence, violence, upside down.”

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]]> A Novel the CIA Spent a Fortune to Suppress https://www.publicbooks.org/a-novel-the-cia-spent-a-fortune-to-suppress/ Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51642 Mr. President shows widespread corruption around a fictional Guatemalan dictator. This did not please the country’s real dictators.

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]]> The Best Classroom Is the Struggle https://www.publicbooks.org/teaching-students-about-american-empire/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48801 “As a historian and educator of college students, my experience teaching on US imperialism is one of disappointment.”

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]]> Cuba & the US: Necessary Mirrors https://www.publicbooks.org/cuba-ada-ferrer-1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-slavery/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48194 Exponentially more enslaved Africans were forced to the lands that now make up Latin America rather than the United States. Where is their story?

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]]> This Review Should Not Exist https://www.publicbooks.org/this-review-should-not-exist/ Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:00:43 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47126 Latin American authors must defer to “Latin America”—as imagined by centers of literary power—to be translated, to sell, to make money.

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]]> Build Culture, Build Community, Break Fascism https://www.publicbooks.org/build-culture-build-community-break-fascism/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45801 On both sides of the border, artivistas—art activists—infuse their creative and political work with minority struggle and solidarity.

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]]> From “Crisis” to Futurity https://www.publicbooks.org/from-crisis-to-futurity-migration-and-borderlands-in-the-21st-century/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44213 Introducing a new series to push forward our thinking and action about immigration and borders.

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