...Lori Boornazian Diel Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World . By Rabasa José . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 264 pp. Cloth , $55.00...

...Nathalie Koc Menard Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-Telling in Post–Shining Path Peru . Edited by Milton Cynthia E. . Afterword by Stern Steve J. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 307 pp. Paper...

... Telling Tongues: Language Policy in Mexico, Colony to Nation . By Heath Shirley Brice . Foreword by Hymes Dell . New York and London , 1972 . Teachers College Press, Columbia University . Map. Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xx , 300 . Cloth. $10.00 . ...

...Edward Telles; René Flores Abstract In this study we use statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys from the 2010 AmericasBarometer to examine how color, nationality, and several individual characteristics are related to white identification in 17 Latin American countries. Unlike...

...Geneviève Dorais Abstract This article tells an untold story about Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the legendary leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party. It contextualizes and deepens the existing analysis of how he came of age politically and engaged with the formation of the American Popular...

... the new carceral logics through its prison reform stance. Since it was the only political party in which most of its leadership had all been imprisoned, it also offered a space for formerly incarcerated, self-educated workers to become career politicians. Ultimately, this essay tells the story of how...

...Mark Q. Sawyer Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil . By Telles Edward E. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2004 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xx , 324 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007...

...Cassia Roth cassia.roth@uga.edu Teresa Benguela e Felipa Crioula estavam grávidas: Maternidade e escravidão no Rio de Janeiro (1830–1888) . By Lorena Féres da Silva Telles . São Paulo : Editora Unifesp , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography . 368 pp...

...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...

... of information, some new and some already known. The words of José Américo were transcribed without editing; hence, the book tells stories without a central thesis. It is a kind of story that a grandfather would tell his grandchildren. José Américo tells us that Washington Luís denied the João Pessoa...

..., and the disappeared? Stern’s “subjects” tell the reader their own story; all are different, yet all together form part of what he calls “Chile’s memory box” (p. xxviii). Two substantive comments are in order. First, Stern’ s Remembering Pinochet’s Chile is a pertinent addition to the witness accounts, personal...

... Benguela e Felipa Crioula estavam gra´vidas: Maternidade e escravida o no Rio de Janeiro (1830 1888). By lorena fe´res da silva telles. Sa o Paulo: Editora Unifesp, 2022. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 368 pp. Paper, R$90.00. In 1888, shortly after the nal abolition of slavery...

... That same evening, as Cortés tells the story, Moctezuma handed over his entire dominions to Cortés and his liege lord. 3 At that moment the Spanish Empire in America was born, and with it the age of European imperialism. At its birth, that imperialism was composed, as it was to be for the next four...

...-determination “far more expansive and robust than highly compromised autonomy regimes might indicate” (pp. 5–6). In Goett's telling, Monkey Point, located on Nicaragua's “easternmost rocky outcropping of land,” might be far from the center of national life but is wracked by dilemmas created by global...

... Niño is a hard read. Set in a grim Guatemala City, it starts out by telling us that urban youth, once “heroic,” are now “criminal”: all have “gone down the drain” (p. 2). The book thus at first appears to be an account of the rise of the notorious gangs in the largest city in Central America...

... more than 30,000 copies in four editions and has stimulated considerable controversy in Brazil. It tells nothing about agrarian reform, actual or projected, in legal, economic, political, or social terms; it does tell a great deal about the religious and nationalistic views of a portion...

... for the internal dynamics of Guatemala. Hence, his analysis of Communist influence in the Arbenz government is shallow. Similarly, Rabe erroneously tells us that, in the United Nations, Guatemala toed the U.S. line on key issues such as the Korean War. He does not tell us, however, that the government daily...

... in the Caribbean are not standing still is plainly evident to the author of this work who is Research Professor of Latin American Studies, Rollins College, Florida. In his Preface he tells us that this is an updated version of the 1967 edition of Caribbean Patterns: “over 30,000 words—amounting to about one...

..., “Pentecostals trade in absolutes. They develop very clear lines of demarcation” (p. 154). Thus, “[the] mere knowledge that, unlike a follower of Catholicism or umbanda or candomblé , a Pentecostal would find a question about dual adherence acutely embarrassing is enough to tell us that conversion...