This guide offers books and other resources which reflect issues important to the local and international Latin American community. Click each title for a link to digital materials or location information for print books.
Print. A curated selection of key texts and artists’ voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.
Print. This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements.
Print. Experts explore five centuries of history using sixteen of the best feature films on Latin America made from the 1980s to the present.
eBook. Examines the evolving digital and human connections forming between literature, art, and political activism in contemporary Latin American cultural expressions.
eBook. Winner, 2024 RUSA Outstanding Reference Award. Offers a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, movements, genres, and historical turning points in Latino literature.
eBook. Recounts how Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives and how women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy & care for their communities.
eBook. The author examines how female adolescence and young adulthood are represented in Latin American and Latinx film through the work of female directors from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and the United States.
eBook. Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes.
Print. Daring and original, Playful Protest examines how Latinx creators resist the idea that joy only exists outside politics and activist struggle.
Print. Latin American philosophy is best understood as a type of applied philosophy devoted to issues related to the culture and politics of Latin America.
Print. Inspired to find justice for her sister, Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City to search for an old, unresolved criminal file. Pulitzer Prize Winner.
eBook. Explores how writers use science fiction to recent works of science fiction comment on the history and present-day realities of the Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas.
Print. A collection of short stories by Mariana Enriquez (Argentina).
Print. Formas de volver a casa habla de la generación de quienes, como dice el narrador, aprendían a leer o a dibujar mientras sus padres se convertían en cómplices o víctimas de la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet.
Print. Atormentada toda su vida por sentimientos de terror y vacío, Urania Cabral, de cuarenta y nueve años, regresa a su natal República Dominicana y revive los sucesos de 1961, cuando la capital aún se llamaba Ciudad Trujillo y un anciano aterrorizaba a una nación de tres millones de habitantes.
eBook. A collective book written in the heat of the challenges that the current world reconfiguration is posing to Latin Americanism, pushing it to join the horizon of what is already a conflicted globalized world and ignorant of the fractures that it itself generates. English & Spanish.