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Offering a comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, this book challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution.

This evocative novel - justly famous for its vividly detailed depiction of the cityscape and the city's customs, social interactions, and political activities - assumed singular importance in Mexican popular culture after its original publication in 1903. The book inspired several film adaptations, a music score, a radio series, a television soap opera, and a pornographic comic book.

Presents salsa as a pan-Caribbean phenomenon, emerging in the migrations and interactions, the celebrations and conflicts that marked the region. This book explains that it is also a commercial product produced and shaped by professional musicians, record producers, and the music industry.

Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key as well as conflicted role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics.

In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space.

In Dance for Me When I Die-first published in Argentina in 2004 and appearing here in English for the first time-Cristian Alarcon tells the story and legacy of seventeen year old Victor Manuel Vital, aka Frente, who was killed by police in the slums of Buenos Aires.

Written in 1937, published in Spanish in 1973, and appearing here in English for the first time, Freddy Prestol Castillo's novel is one of the few accounts of the 1937 massacre of tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.

In this sweeping history, Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the US occupation in 1915.

Offers information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. This title contains many linguistic and cultural observations: descriptions of the Indians' healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death.

In Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic Isabella Cosse examines the history, political commentary, and influence of the world-famous comic character Mafalda from her Argentine origins in 1964 to her global reach in the 1990s.

Until now, the single comprehensive history of Salsa - and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production - was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy Cesar Miguel Rondon's celebrated El libro de la salsa.

Sergio Serulnikov offers an in-depth history of the Tupac Amaru insurrection (1780-82), the largest and most threatening indigenous challenge to Spanish rule in the Andean world after the Conquest.

A leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Nestor Garcia Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization. In this book, newly available in English, he considers how globalization is imagined by artists, academics, migrants, and entrepreneurs, all of whom traverse boundaries and engage in multicultural interactions.

Regarded by many as one of the best critical books on Borges.

One of Brazil's leading historians denaturalizes the country's Northeast, showing when, by whom, and for what reasons the region was invented as a region with a particular identity.

Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse-a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.

When Rains Became Floods is the stunning autobiography of Lurgio Gavilan Sanchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerilla insurgency Shining Path and the Peruvian military during the Peruvian Civil War. After escaping the war, he became a Franciscan priest.