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Cross-Border Resistance to the Porfiriato - Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. By Kelly Lytle Hernández. New York: Norton, 2022. Pp. 352. $30.00 cloth; $26.23 e-b00k.

Mexico's Post-Revolutionary People's Movements - Movements after Revolution: A History of People's Struggles in Mexico. By Miles V. Rodríguez. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 240. $55.00 cloth.

Brazil and Green Revolution History - Agriculture's Energy: The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution. By Thomas D. Rogers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 287. $29.95 paper.

Latin American International History - The United States and Venezuela during the First World War: Cordial Relations of Suspicious Cooperation. By H. Micheal Tarver. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 255. $105.00 cloth; $45.00 e-book.

Films about Latin America - Latin American History at the Movies. Edited by Donald F. Stevens. Pp. 346. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. $110.00 cloth; $39.00 paper; $37.00 e-book.

Sports and Race in Brazil - Soccer and Racism: The Beginnings of Futebol in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1895–1933. By Rosana Barbosa. London: Anthem Press, 2022. Pp. 72 $80.00 cloth; $24.95 paper; $24.95 eBook.

Amnesties in Brazilian History - Amnesty in Brazil: Recompense after Repression, 1895–2010. By Ann M. Schneider. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 289. $55.00 cloth.

Cold War-Era Development in Rural Guatemala - On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala. By Sarah Foss. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Pp. 316. $99.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $22.99 e-book.

Cultural History of Electricity in Mexico - Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City. By Diana J. Montaño. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. Pp. 373. $50.00 cloth.

Narratives of Blackness in Buenos Aires - Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina. By Paulina Alberto. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2022.

Revolution and Religion in El Salvador - From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution. By Leigh Binford. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. Pp. 204. $120.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $34.95 e-book; $34.95 PDF.

Modern Mexico in Comparative Analysis - Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints: Latin America since Independence. By Alan Knight. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 422, $99.00 cloth; $35.00 paper; $35.00 e-book.

Feminism and Afro-Cuban Women - Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba. By Takkara K. Brunson. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2021. Pp. 278. $80.00 cloth.

Hemispheric Solidarity and Puerto Rico - Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism. By Margaret M. Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 308. $99.00 cloth; $32.95 paper; e-book $25.99.

Mexico's Revolution and the Internationalist Movement - Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution. By Christina Heatherton. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 305. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. $29.95 cloth; $29.95 e-book.

Ties between North Korea and Cuba - North Korea, Tricontinentalism, and the Latin American Revolution, 1959–1970. By Moe Taylor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 227. $110.00 cloth; $110.00 e-book.

Borderlands History - Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and Texas Borderlands. By Paul Barba. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Pp. 474. Seven maps, two tables, index. $69.00 cloth; $40.00 paper; $69.00 e-book (EPUB, PDF).

Sea and Beach in Rio de Janeiro - From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going. A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. By B. J. Barickman. Edited by Hendrik Kraay & Bryan McCann. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2022. Pp. 287. $95.00 cloth; $29.95 paper; $95.00 e-book.

Haitian/Dominican Relations - More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands. By Sabine Cadeau. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 303. $99.99 cloth; $80.00 e-book.

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