Title: Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair
Author: Ignacio Walker
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-13: 978-0268019723
In 2009, Ignacio Walker—one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, this volume contributes to the task of exploring the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America. Walker argues that, throughout the past century, Latin American history has been marked by the search for responses to the struggle to replace the oligarchic order with a democratic one. Walker maintains that it is primarily the actors, institutions, and public policies—not structural determinants—that create progress or regression in Latin American democracy.
Title: Cultural Sensitivity Training: Developing the Basis for Effective Intercultural Communication
Author: Susann Kowalski
Publisher: Econcise
ISBN-13: 978-3903386136
With this book, you will learn why we all act ‘automatically’ in interactions with people from other groups and cultures, and how you can counteract these automatisms. The many exercises will guide you through recognizing your own cultural background, and identifying similarities and differences between cultures, to learning how to effectively interact in an intercultural environment. Gain a compact overview of models that help you to understand intercultural differences, learn different ways of reflecting on and resolving intercultural situations, and create a plan for developing your intercultural competencies to a higher level.
Title: Understanding Latin America: A Decoding Guide
Author: Alfredo Toro Hardy
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-9813229945
Little is understood about the idiosyncrasies of Latin-Americans, their cultural identity and social values. This book aims to focus on Latin America's history, culture, identity and idiosyncrasies. It serves as a guide to understand regional attitudes, meanings and behavioural differences of the region. It also analyses the present economic situation of the region, while trying to predict its future. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to readers keen on exploring the region for potential opportunities in trade, investment or any other kind of business and cultural endeavor.
Title: The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Harry Sanabria
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1138675810
This wide-ranging introduction to the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean offers broad coverage of culture and society in the region, taking into account historical developments as well as the roles of power and inequality. The chapters address key topics such as colonialism, globalization, violence, religion, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, health, and food, and emphasize the impact of Latin American and Caribbean peoples and cultures in the United States. Each chapter ends with a summary, up-to-date recommendations for viewing films/videos and websites, and a comprehensive bibliography for further reading and research.
Title: Beyond Individualism: Portraying Collective Selfhood in Latin American Literature and Art
Author: Lois Farkinson Zamora
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 9780226843179
Beyond Individualism examines the portrayal of collective identities over two centuries in Latin American literature and visual art. Lois Parkinson Zamora demonstrates that many authors and artists are less focused on singular selves than on selves-in-relation: less on individual autonomy than on communal affiliation. Their works—sometimes placed under the labels Neobaroque, magical realism, Surrealism, and Expressionism—resist the psychological realism typical of European and North American novels. Zamora terms this “archetypal realism,” where characters embody communities, cultures, or ideals, revealing a modernity grounded in collectivity, kinship, and shared identity.
Title: Metropolitan Latinidad
Edited by: A.K. Sandoval-Strausz
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 9780226839837
A wide-ranging collection of essays places Latinos at the center of American urban and suburban history.Latino urban history has been overlooked not only for its own value but also for its centrality to the broader field of urban history. Too often, scholarship focused on economics, politics, and the built environment has framed race strictly in Black and white terms. Covering metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Chicago, El Paso, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York, this volume highlights Latino experiences that reshape long-standing narratives and redefine how we see American cities and suburbs.
Title: Latin America and Existentialism: A Pan-American Literary History (1864-1938)
Author: Edwin Murillo
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 9781837720002
This book is a comparative study of existentialism in Latin America, addressing and rectifying Latin America’s subordinated position in the existentialist canon. It prioritizes literature and contextualizes Latin America’s philosophical contributions from the 1880s to the late 1930s, decades that coincide with the canon’s foundational years. Using a Pan-American approach, the book discusses key figures such as Juan Carlos Onetti, Carlos Astrada, and Ernesto Sábato within the broader context of Latin American existentialism and examines writers from less studied regions, such as Colombia’s José Asunción Silva, and Chile’s María Luisa Bombal, among others.
Title: New World Objects of Knowledge: A Cabinet of Curiosities
Edited by: Mark Thurner and Juan Pimentel
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 9781908857828
From the late fifteenth century to the present day, countless explorers, conquerors, and other agents of empire have laid siege to the New World, plundering and pilfering its most precious artifacts and treasures. Today, these natural and cultural products—which are key to conceptualizing a history of Latin America—are scattered in museums around the world. With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds.
