The first study of the complex relationships among the races in Latin America after Spanish colonization.

A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.

On October 2, 1968, up to 700 students were killed by government authorities while protesting in Mexico City - many of them women. This analysis of the role of women in the protest movement shows how the events of 1968 shaped modern Mexican society.

The ten essays in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico provide information about the religious culture in colonial Mexico.

The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.

The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.

A comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.

A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.

The author, an expert on business interests in Latin America, examines U.S. efforts, spanning two centuries, to impose economic dominance on the peoples of the Americas and the Latin American responses to these policies.

New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.