The Americas

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Americas is a full-color magazine published bi-monthly by the Organization of American Studies. Americas provides a rich mosaic of the peoples and cultures of South American, North American, and the Caribbean, through feature articles on art, history, literature, places, and people.

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A Companion to U.S. Latino Literatures

Apr 01, 2008; González, Eduardo ... A Companion to U.S. Latino Literatures. Edited by Carlota Caulfield and Darien J. Davis. Rochester: Tamesis Books, 2007. Pp. ix, 235. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00 cloth. The cover of A Companion to U.S. Latino Literatures strikes the eye. It shows in full-quality color The ...

Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700

Apr 01, 2008; Stanwood, Owen ... Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700. By Jorge Canizares-Esguerra. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 327. Illustrations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Cloth $60; Paper $24.95. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra has spent most of his career attempting ...

CITIZEN OF WHICH REPUBLIC? FOREIGNERS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP IN CENTRAL AMERICA, 1823-1845

Apr 01, 2008; Dym, Jordana ... The law of the South American states with reference to nationality of origin remains to be noticed. Sir Alexander Cockburn, Nationality: or, The law relating to subjects and aliens, considered with a view to future legislation (London, W. Ridgway, 1869), 17. In December 1841, ...

ARBITERS OF CHANGE: PROVINCIAL ELITES AND THE ORIGINS OF FEDERALISM IN ARGENTINA'S LITTORAL, 1814-1820

Apr 01, 2008; Rao, Sujay ... Early in 1817, in the tiny port of Rosario, a deeply troubled Comandante Tomás Bernai sat down at his desk to pen a confidential private letter to Supreme Director Juan Martin de Pueyrredon, head of the national government based in Buenos Aires. Nearly seven years after the May Revolution ...

"IN SPITE OF HER SEX": THE CACICA AND THE POLITICS OF THE PUEBLO IN LATE COLONIAL CUSCO*

Apr 01, 2008; Garrett, David T ... In October, 1797, the indios principales of the Andean pueblo of Muñani appealed to the royal court in Cusco to depose their governor, or cacica, Doña María Teresa Choquehuanca.1 Not challenging hereditary Choquehuanca rule, they instead focused on María Teresa's incompetence and her sex, ...

Communal Feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile. Theorizing the Space of Exile, Class, and Identity

Apr 01, 2008; Valverde, Estela ... Communal Feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile. Theorizing the Space of Exile, Class, and Identity. By Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs. Lanham: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. Pp. xlvii, 306. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $70.00 cloth. This ...

OBITUARY: Michael C. Meyer (1935-2007)

Apr 01, 2008; Beezley, William H; Deeds, Susan M ... Michael C. Meyer, emeritus Professor of History at the University of Arizona, died on March 31, 2007. Mike leaves a legacy of scholarship, teaching, administration, and friendship to our profession. His roots ran deep in the borderlands region, as he was born, raised, and educated in New Mexico, ...

BLACK AMERICANS AND THE STATE IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY GUATEMALA*

Apr 01, 2008; Opie, Frederick Douglass ... In May 2006, foreign-born workers, largely from Latin America, mobilized across the United States in response to calls from anti-immigrant groups for tougher federal policies against illegal immigrants. About 400,000 protested in Chicago, 300,000 in Los Angeles, and 75,000 in Denver. In fifty ...

The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America

Apr 01, 2008; Dunn, Christopher ... CULTURAL/LITERARY STUDIES The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America. By Fernando Rosenberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. Pp. viii, 224. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Critical approaches to the avant-garde tend to adopt temporal frames to explain the ...

Familia, poder, riqueza y subversión: Los Fagoaga novohispanos, 1730-1830

Apr 01, 2008; Couturier, Edith ... ECONOMIC HISTORY Familia, poder, riqueza y subversión: Los Fagoaga novohispanos, 1730-1830. By Laura Pérez Resales. Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2003. Pp. xvi, 279. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A striking example of a family who sustained their power and wealth from the ...

Memorias histórico, físicas, crítico, apologéticas de la América meridional

Apr 01, 2008; Berquist, Emily ... ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Memorias histórico, físicas, crítico, apologéticas de la América meridional. By José Eusebio Llano Zapata and Ricardo Ramírez Castañeda. Edited by Ricardo Ramírez, Antonio Garrido, Luís Millones Figueroa, Víctor Peralta Ruiz and Charles Walker. Lima: Institute Francés de ...

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & PRIZES

Apr 01, 2008; Taylor, William ... CONFERENCE ON LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY As announced at its luncheon on January 4, 2008 at the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., the Conference on Latin American History recognized the superb achievement of the following scholars: The Bolton-Johnson Prize (For ...

Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador

Apr 01, 2008; Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi ... Holy Intoxication to Drunken Dissipation: Alcohol among Quichua Speakers in Otavalo, Ecuador. By Barbara Butler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 452. Illustrations. Glossary. Notes. References. Index. $37.95 paper. In this new work, Barbara Butler examines ...

Testaments of Toluca

Apr 01, 2008; Cline, Sarah ... ETHNOHISTORY/INDIGENOUS POLITICS Testaments of Toluca. Edited and translated by Caterina Pizzigoni. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 250. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. $55.00 cloth. This handsome publication is a selection of 98 seventeenth- and ...

Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima

Apr 01, 2008; Twinam, Ann ... FAMILY/GENDER STUDIES Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima. By Maria Emma Mannarelli. Translated by Sidney Evans and Meredith D. Dodge. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 204. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $23.95 ...

The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary

Apr 01, 2008; Adams, Rachel ... LATINO/BORDER STUDIES The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. By Ramón Saldívar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 525. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Among the most important developments in Latino/a ...

Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America

Apr 01, 2008; Morales, Amanda L ... Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America. By William Anthony Nericcio. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Pp. 248. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 cloth; $22.95 paper. Linguistically, conceptually and visually, Nericcio's Tex[t]-Mex is a ...

Revolución, independencia y las nuevas naciones de América

Apr 01, 2008; Fowler, Will ... NATION BUILDING/NATIONALISM Revolución, independencia y las nuevas naciones de América. Edited by Jaime E. Rodríguez O. Madrid: Fundación Mapfre Tavera, 2005. Pp. 614. Illustrations. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. In the build up to the bicentenary of the outbreak of the Spanish American ...

The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa, a True Story of Revolution and Revenge

Apr 01, 2008; Marak, Andrae M ... MILITARY HISTORY The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa, a True Story of Revolution and Revenge. By Eileen Welsome. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Pp. x, 406. Photographs. Maps. Index. $21.95 paper. Eileen Welsome's flowing prose in her recounting of ...

Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change, Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico

Apr 01, 2008; Camp, Roderic Ai ... Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change, Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico. Edited by Elisa Servin, Leticia Reina, and John Tutino. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 405. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. This edited collection stems from an ...