Our latest issue (82:2) is now online! Highlights include an interdisciplinary examination of a rare 16th-century manuscript lectionary containing Nahuatl translations of Biblical texts by Barbara E. Mundy, Ben Leeming & Mary Elizabeth Haude. Explore more at: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Drawing on Inquisition records, Sommer “contends that Indigenous exogamous practices were key to historical interaction, exchange, and social development in the Brazilian North.”
🗺️Map by the author, ca. 1750, illustrating key rivers, towns, and missions.

📚 Not sure what to read this summer?

Explore the Book Reviews section of The Americas to see what scholars are reading and reviewing across Latin American history. Our reviewers offer sharp insight and fresh perspectives on new and important titles.

🎬 What does Mickey Mouse have to do with U.S. foreign policy? During WWII, the U.S. government partnered with Disney and Latin American officials to spread pro-American sentiment across the region. Behind the charm of films like Saludos Amigos was a carefully coordinated propaganda campaign.

The article tells the story of a Mass in Recife that brought together bishops, theologians, activists & even pop star Milton de Nascimento to mourn the deaths of millions in the African slave trade, seek pardon for the Church's sins & celebrate Black resistance in Brazil.

De la Puente Luna offers a deeper understanding of Indigenous agency under colonial rule 📷 Una Caucho Inga and Cona Raqui Inga, land surveyors. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, "El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno," 352 [354]. Royal Danish Library, GKS 2232 quarto.

Founded in 1966, La Pájara Pinta published experimental, sometimes radically innovative poems, essays & short plays that pushed the limits of politics & culture. Among the authors was guerrilla poet Roque Dalton, contributing from exile. His 1964 police mugshot, courtesy of MUPI, San Salvador