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Volume 76 - October 2019

Book Review

Crime and Political Violence - Los Zetas Inc: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico. By Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Pp. 400. $90.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System. By Carl Lindskoog. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 206. $84.95 cloth.

Social Movements, Indigenous Communities, and Resource Extraction - Demanding Justice and Security. Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America. Edited by Rachel Sieder. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017. Pp. viii, 299. Notes on Contributors. Index. $34.95 paper.

Latin American Art - Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin American Arts. By Juan G. Ramos. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. Pp. 254. $79.95 cloth.

Neoliberalism - Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies. By Verónica Gago. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 277. $94.95 cloth; $25.95 paper.

The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives. By Macarena Gómez-Barris. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 208. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $84.95 cloth.

Bolivia - Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia. By Susan Helen Ellison. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 281. $99.95 cloth; $25.95 paper.

Nongovernmental Organizations - How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiation with Guatemalan NGOs. By Erin Beck. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 266. $94.95 cloth; $25.95 paper.

Filmmakers, Cinema, and Journalism - Latin American Women Filmmakers. Social and Cultural Perspectives. By Traci Roberts-Camps. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. Pp. 180. $75.00 cloth.

Medicine - Carving a Niche. The Medical Profession in Mexico, 1800–1870. By Luz María Hernández Sáenz. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. Pp. 376. $39.95 cloth.

Brazil - Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil. By Yuko Miki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 292. $99.99 cloth; $44.99 paper.

Television Studies - Reimagining Brazilian Television: Luiz Fernando Carvalho's Contemporary Vision. By Eli Lee Carter. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Pp. 286. $28.95 paper.

Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil by Rielle Navitski. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 45 illustrations. Pp. xiv, 325. Illustrations. Notes, Bibliography. Index. $99.95 cloth; $27.65 paper.

Argentina - Argentina's Missing Bones: Revisiting the History of the Dirty War. By James Brennan. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018, Pp. 195. $34.95 paper.

US Policy Toward Latin America - In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans. By Lars Schoultz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 392. $35.00 paper.

Colombia - Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia. By Lina del Castillo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Pp. 402. $50.00 cloth; $30.00 paper.

Colombia - Cultural Agents Reloaded: The Legacy of Antanas Mockus. Edited by Carlo Tognato. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 646. 78 photographs. 15 illustrations. $40.00 paper.

Costa Rica - La inolvidable edad: jóvenes en la Costa Rica del siglo XX. Edited by Iván Molina Jiménez and David Díaz Arias. Heredia, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad Nacional Autónoma, 2018. Pp. 236. $15.00 paper.

Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic. By Ellen D. Tillman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. viii, 288. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 paper.

Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico - The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico. By Stephanie J. Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 275. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00 cloth; $29.95 paper.

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