Reviews

Schuhrke documents the AFL-CIO’s anti-communist campaign and role in weakening left-wing labor unions around the world, between the 1940s and 1990s.

The critically acclaimed film tells the story of the kidnapping and murder of former congressman Rubens Paiva during Brazil’s military dictatorship and his wife Eunice’s struggle to find the truth behind his forced disappearance.

Marcos Colón’s book, grounded in the experiences of Indigenous communities, examines how the institutional violence of Jair Bolsonaro’s government resulted in the environmental destruction of the Brazilian Amazon.

Esther Whitfield's book examines how art produced in Guantánamo transcends cultural and linguistic divides to find common ground, reimagining empathy and resistance against political forces.

Through storytelling and analysis, Blanc’s book tells an interior history of Brazil by recounting the political initiatives and legacy of the Prestes Column.

Two recent books offer nuanced explanations behind the increased violence and militarization toward criminalized immigration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Yordanov’s new book fills a gap in the historiography of the Cuban Revolution by centering Cuba’s post-revolutionary relations with its Eastern European allies.

Paloma Duong's book explores Cuba's changing media landscape's effect on local and global perceptions of the country by analyzing popular Cuban music and recent leftist travel literature on Cuba.

Julio César Guanche's book offers a reinterpretation of Cuba’s enduring democratic-republican tradition, unearthing its popular and egalitarian historical roots.

Translated for the first time into English by William Costa, Rafael Barrett’s text, originally published in 1911, offers political and spiritual solutions to Paraguay's social injustices following the War of the Triple Alliance.

Oneka LaBennett’s recent book excavates layers of myth-making and storytelling in Guyana to examine the gendered dimensions of environmental extractivism and global capitalism.

The recent book by Noam Chomsky and Vishay Prashad provides a critical analysis of the U.S. empire’s treatment of Cuba, from the Cuban Revolution to the present.