... and capital most certainly have their roots in the thinkers and writers of this earlier period, an era whose production Luis-Brown captures and examines masterfully. Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States . By Luis-Brown David...

... comments on the Uruguayan state’s alternate attempts to erase and exalt the country’s indigenous heritage. Carolle Charles examines the relative importance of the concepts of race and class within Haitian political discourse from the Haitian Revolution to the early twenty-first century. Kelvin Santiago...

...María Teresa Fernández Aceves The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico . By Lund Joshua . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2012 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx, 217 pp. Paper , $25.00 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The Mestizo State...

...Ana S. Q. Liberato The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity . By Mayes April J. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 195 pp. Cloth , $69.95 . Copyright © 2015...

...Scott Ickes Brazil's Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia . By Romo Anadelia A. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . Photograph. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 221 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Piergiorgio Di Giminiani Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights . By Richards Patricia . Pitt Latin American Series . Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2013 . Map. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii, 261 pp. Paper...

...Robert J. Cottrol Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America . By Telles Edward E. and the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...Jennifer Lambe José Martí, the United States, and Race . By Fountain Anne . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 161 pp. Cloth , $69.95 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 In an August 1887 piece...

...Linda A. Newson The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru . By Jouve Martín José R. . McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University...

...Joseph L. Love The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil . By Weinstein Barbara . Radical Perspectives . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . Figures. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 458 pp. Paper , $29.95 . Copyright © 2016...

...Marcia Ochoa Of Beasts and Beauty: Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia . By Stanfield Michael Edward . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 280 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University...

..., converting them from obstacles into agents of modern progress and from national liabilities into assets (pp. 4–5). Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State . By Drinot Paulo . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...

...José Angel Hernández The contemporary debates over this question of race are obviously numerous, not to mention controversial. The author definitely complicates these ongoing concerns with her survey and interview of 86 Mexican-origin respondents in three very different locations in the state...

...Elaine C. Lacy The difficulty in classifying Latinos underscores one of Rodríguez’s main points: definitions of race and ethnicity are subjective and dependent on context. Some public agencies consider Latinos a race, but the Bureau of the Census does not (a topic to which the author devotes...

...Anthony P. Maingot Race and Politics in the Dominican Republic . By Sagás Ernesto , Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2000 . Illustrations. Maps. Table. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 160 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press...

...Amy Chazkel Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine . By Peard Julyan G. . Durham : Duke University Press , 2000 . Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 315 pp. Cloth , $54.95 . Paper , $17.95 . Copyright 2001...

...Marilyn Miller Von Vacano reaches deep into the oeuvres of these four authors to trace how notions of race developed from the late fifteenth to the mid-twentieth century, and he compares and contrasts their texts with those of a surprisingly broad cohort of Latin American and European...

... watch, as it contains a number of historical, geographical, and analytical inaccuracies. The most conspicuous example of this is the use of the term “Carthaginians” to refer to the people of Cartagena de Indias. In spite of von Germeten's manifest interest in issues of class, race, and power...

...Kaysha Corinealdi The Politics of Race in Panama is a welcome contribution to studies of literature and race formation in Panama and the greater Caribbean and Latin American region. A more nuanced conversation about how terms like Hispanic , blackness , and mestizaje have evolved in Panama...

... of slavery and race it might sound somewhat alien and anachronistic. A map of both Bahia and its capital would have helped orient readers unfamiliar with the region. But these are small quibbles with an otherwise excellent book. I found particularly refreshing Otovo's analysis of the intersection...