UCLA Latin American Institute

Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste

by Maite Zubiaurre

Much has been written about landfills and the monumentality of rubbish, but little attention has been paid to "litter," the small trash that soils the urban pavement, like...

Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual

by Maarten van Delden

Reality in Movement looks at a wide range of topics of interest in Paz's career, including his engagement with the subversive, adversary strain in Western culture; his meditations on...

Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940

by César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad

Fundamental tenets of colonial historiography are challenged by showing that US capital investment into this colony did not lead...

Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico

by Kevin Terraciano

One of the earliest texts written in a Native American language, the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa Catalina Texupan, a community in the Mixteca region...

Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America

Edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Susanna B. Hecht

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key...

Antologia Fantástica Da República Brasileira

by José Luiz Passos

With how many voices is a democracy made? This is one of the questions in the new novel by the award-winning Pernambuco author José Luiz Passos. Fantastic Anthology of the...

The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

Edited by Dr. Cecilia Menjívar, Dr. Marie Ruiz, Dr. Immanuel Ness

The objective of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises is to deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is commonly understood as "migration crises." The volume...

Barrio Harmonics Essays on Chicano / Latino Music

by Steven Loza

Barrio Harmonics opens with a comprehensive overview that begins with music in the US Southwest in the seventeenth century and ends with the Grammy Awards for Latin American music in...

Skills of the "Unskilled" Work and Mobility among Mexican Migrants

by Jacqueline Hagan, Rubén Hernández-León, Jean-Luc Demonsant

Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas

by Patricia Marks Greenfield, Lauren Greenfield (Photographer)

For centuries, the Zinacantec Maya women of Mexico have woven and embroidered textiles that express their social and aesthetic values and embody their role as mothers and daughters. Boasting more...

The Students We Share: Preparing US and Mexican Educators for Our Transnational Future

by Patricia Gándara and edited by Bryant Jensen

Millions of students in the US and Mexico begin their educations in one country and find themselves trying to integrate into the school system of the other. As global migration...

Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste

by Maite Zubiaurre

Much has been written about landfills and the monumentality of rubbish, but little attention has been paid to "litter," the small trash that soils the urban pavement, like the bits of chewing gum that some artists decorate. Talking Trash looks at... Read More

Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual

by Maarten van Delden

Reality in Movement looks at a wide range of topics of interest in Paz's career, including his engagement with the subversive, adversary strain in Western culture; his meditations on questions of cultural identity and intercultural contact; his dialogue with both leftist and... Read More

Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940

by César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad

Fundamental tenets of colonial historiography are challenged by showing that US capital investment into this colony did not lead to the disappearance of the small farmer. Contrary to well-established narratives, quantitative data... Read More

Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico

by Kevin Terraciano

One of the earliest texts written in a Native American language, the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa Catalina Texupan, a community in the Mixteca region of the modern state of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano’s transcription and translation, the first... Read More

Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America

Edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Susanna B. Hecht

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key nexus in food–feed–fuel production that underpins the agribusiness–conservationist discourse of "land sparing" through... Read More

Antologia Fantástica Da República Brasileira

by José Luiz Passos

With how many voices is a democracy made? This is one of the questions in the new novel by the award-winning Pernambuco author José Luiz Passos. Fantastic Anthology of the Brazilian Republic attests to the actuality of the Romanesque genre in the form... Read More

The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

Edited by Dr. Cecilia Menjívar, Dr. Marie Ruiz, Dr. Immanuel Ness

The objective of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises is to deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is commonly understood as "migration crises." The volume covers a wide range of historical, economic, social, political, and environmental conditions that... Read More

Barrio Harmonics Essays on Chicano / Latino Music

by Steven Loza

Barrio Harmonics opens with a comprehensive overview that begins with music in the US Southwest in the seventeenth century and ends with the Grammy Awards for Latin American music in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the following chapters, Loza discusses... Read More

Skills of the "Unskilled" Work and Mobility among Mexican Migrants

by Jacqueline Hagan, Rubén Hernández-León, Jean-Luc Demonsant

Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as “unskilled.” Despite the value of migrants' work experiences and the substantial technical and interpersonal skills developed throughout their lives, the labor-market contributions of these migrants are often overlooked and... Read More

Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas

by Patricia Marks Greenfield, Lauren Greenfield (Photographer)

For centuries, the Zinacantec Maya women of Mexico have woven and embroidered textiles that express their social and aesthetic values and embody their role as mothers and daughters. Boasting more than two hundred striking and detailed photographs of Zinacantec textiles and their makers,... Read More

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