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Volume 78 - October 2021

Book Review

Caribbean Decolonization - Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond. Edited by Jack Webb, Rod Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and William Tantam. London: University of London Press, 2020. Pp. 260. $30.00 paper.

Anti-Mexican Violence - The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas. By Monica Muñoz Martinez. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 387. $35.00 cloth.

Salvadoran Activism - El alborotador de Centroamérica: El Salvador frente al imperio. By Héctor Lindo Fuentes. San Salvador: Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas,” 2019. Pp. 308. $15.00 paper.

Extractivism in Ecuador - Resource Radicals: From Metro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador. By Thea Riofrancos. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 252. $99.95 cloth; $26.95 paper.

Sovereign Debts - The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and Their Repudiation. By Éric Toussaint. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019. Chronology. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Pp. x, 283. $13.96 paper.

Interwar Argentina - La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina: Gender, Nation, and Popular Culture. By Cecilia Tossounian. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020. Pp. 172. $80.00 cloth.

Migration and Deportation - Deported to Death: How Drug Violence is Changing Migration on the US-Mexico Border. By Jeremy Slack. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. ix, 256. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. References. Index. $85.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Boxing in Mexico and Cuba - Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840–1940. By David C. LaFevor. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. Pp. 298. $75.00 cloth.

Espionage in Argentina - The Hidden War in Argentina: British and American Espionage in World War II. By Panagiotis Dimitrakis. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2019. Pp. 251. $115.00 cloth.

Amazonia - Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer. By Fernando Santos-Granero. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. Pp. 288. $29.95 paper.

Street Art - Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile. By Guisela Latorre. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019. Pp. 230. $89.95 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Global Cold War - Latin America and the Global Cold War. Edited by Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 422. $39.95 cloth.

Panama - Modern Panama: From Occupation to Crossroads of the Americas. By Michael L. Conniff and Gene E. Bigler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xx, 346. Notes. Bibliography. $99.99 cloth; $32.99 paper.

Indigenous Revolutions - Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990–2005. By Jeffery M. Paige. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. Pp. 330. $65.00 cloth.

Immigration to Argentina - Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina. By Julia Albarracín. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Pp. xv, 250. $55.00 cloth.

La Guerra Fría en América Latina. By Vanni Pettinà. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2018. Pp. 241. Bibliography. Index.

Mexican Parishes in Chicago - Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican. By Deborah E. Kanter. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Pp. 214. $110.00 cloth; $24.95 paper; $14.95 e-book.

Labor and Family in Revolutionary Cuba - Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1971. By Rachel Hynson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 314. $39.99 cloth.

Indigenous Community Policing - Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars. By Luis Hernández Navarro. Translated by Ramor Ryan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. x, 263. Bibliography. Index. $90.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $22.99 e-Book.

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