Have black lives ever mattered?

A powerful indictment on the history of police violence against people of color, from slavery to today's Black Lives Matter.

Anna in the tropics (tcg edition)

2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Mexico unconquered

A young journalist's chronicles of Mexican social movements and the powers attempting to repress them

New world of indigenous resistance

Interviews with Chomsky accompanied by commentaries by indigenous organizers on globalization and resistance in the Americas.

Agrarian crossings

In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another a...

Dying to live

The real story--and human price--of US/Mexico border enforcement.

I couldn't even imagine that they would kill us

Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.

What went wrong? the nicaraguan revolution

An indispensable reexamination of the failures of the Nicaraguan Revolution, by one of the most important Marxist-historians of Latin America.

Utopia and the dialectic in latin american liberation

A stirring Marxist-Humanist analysis of recent liberation struggles waged by indigenous communities across Latin American.

Zapatista spring

The revolution or revolutionary charity? All is not as it seems deep inside the Zapatista rebellion.

Come hell or high water

In this insightful new book Destrooper examines the relationship between revolutionary politics and feminist struggles in Latin America.

Industrial colonialism in latin america

Confronting the critical problems of Latin American development, this volume expertly roots these challenges in the structures of colonialism.

Economic nationalism and globalization

Szlajfer interprets economic nationalism as a significant world-wide phenomenon intimately linked with the birth, development and crisis of capitalist modernity

Marx and latin america

An important rebuttal of those who accuse Marx of 'Eurocentrism,' through a close reading of his views on Latin America.

Territories in resistance

A thoughtful examination of social relations in Latin America, from one of the region's foremost political analysts.

To die in mexico

On-the-ground reporting and behind-the-scene stories from Mexico’s drug war by Mexico-based journalist, John Gibler.

Anarchism in latin america

An accessible introduction to anarchism's history and influence from Mexico to Argentina. First English translation.

Shattered hope

Idolatry and its enemies

The ecclesiastical investigations into Indian religious error--the Extirpation of idolatry--that occurred in the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Archdiocese of Lima come to life here as the most revealing sources on colonial Andean religion and culture. Focusing on a largely neglected period, ...

Points of departure

Seventeen short stories by some of the best young writers being published in Mexico today.

The speed of dreams

The literary and poetic genius of Latin America's greatest living writer/rebel.

Arm the spirit

Even her children didn't know her real name. A gripping tale of life underground.

Lineas conectadas

Two-volume bilingual anthology of Mexican and American Poets, produced in partnership between NEA/Mexican government

The mountain in the sea

A strong, richly lyric synthesis of Spanish, North African, Caribbean, and North and South American cultures.Renowned for his pioneering mixture of both Spanish and English in poetry and prose, Cruz has now incorporated Arabic language and North African culture into his unique poetic idiom. As Cr...

Riot, rebellion, and revolution

The notebooks

A facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooksBrooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as ...

The empire trap

How the United States became an imperial power by bowing to pressure to defend its citizens' overseas investmentsThroughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into ...