Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Latin American Studies Association.
Scroll through our newest releases!
Since UNC Press won’t be exhibiting at the conference this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you.
From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, or chat with our editor Andreina Fernandez and more.
You can learn about our new books just published in these great book series:
Congratulations to our LASA Book Award Winners!
2026 Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History, Latin American Studies Association
2026 Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History, Latin American Studies Association
And, don’t forget to check out our journal The Latin Americanist
All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent LASA conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.
Follow the links below for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.
Titles on Display for LASA
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Multiracial Histories and Gendered Borders in Los Angeles
Race, Health, and Disability in Argentine Immigration Policy, 1876–1932
Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s
How Insects, Pathogens, and People Defied the US-Mexico Border
Intercultural Medicine in Modern Mexico
Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago
Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West
Spanish Hero of the American Revolution
Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935–2025
The Judicial Politics of Abortion in Latin America
Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico
The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s
Infrastructure and the Making of Neoliberal Yucatán
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940–1980
Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867
The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War
Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era
War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines
Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil
An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil
Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era
Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America
Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy
Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina
Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19
A Biography of Violeta Parra
Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal
Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence
A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland
Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
The Jewish Mexican Cookbook
Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba
A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders
Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico
Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship
A Global Latin American History
Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia
A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America
The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
How South America's Most Popular Drink Defined a Region
A History of Racial Formation
Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism
A History of Latin American Social Medicine
Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia
Citizenship and the Politics of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Cuba
ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America
Crucible of the Latina South
Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti
Solidarity across the Americas
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism
Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America
Collective Action in the Digital Age
A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement
How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant
The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro
Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town
The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution
Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala
Borders of Violence and Justice
Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835-1935
Miami and the Making of Modern Medicine
Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance
The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change
Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile
War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Histories from the Caribbean
Histories of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border
Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States
The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music
Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America
Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands
Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power
A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet's Terror State to Justice
A Radical History
Father Luis Olivares, a Biography
Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles
Race, Ancestry, and the Body after the Genome
How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City
Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives
How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland
Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941
Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War
A Global History
Moral Majorities across the Americas
Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right
Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery
A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile
A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
A Decolonial History
Lula and His Politics of Cunning
From Metalworker to President of Brazil
Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana
The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire
Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars
Brazil's Revolution in Commerce
Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century
Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America
Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965
Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992
Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD
All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition
Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary
Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War
A Black Jurist in a Slave Society
Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship
Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
These People Have Always Been a Republic
Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912
Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State