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"Youth, Education, and Wellbeing in the Americas" is a book that explores the experiences of young people in education in various countries in the Americas, including Chile, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, and Canada. The book emphasizes the importance of decolonizing education and prioritizing youth perspectives. It addresses issues such as educational disparities, challenges in the educational system, and the need for inclusive and equitable environments. The book offers valuable insights into transforming educational systems to better serve marginalized communities, including Latino students in the U.S. [Extracted from the article]

"Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawai'i" by Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. explores the history and experiences of Latinx populations in Hawai'i over a 190-year period. Guevarra examines how Latinxs migrated, labored, developed community, and interacted with Native Hawaiians and the islands' mixed race and local populations. Through a combination of primary sources, academic studies, and interviews, Guevarra argues that the intertwined histories and cultural blending of peoples represent a unique "Pacific Latinidad." The book delves into various topics, including the influence of Mexican vaqueros on Hawaiian cowboys, the experiences of Puerto Rican immigrants on sugar plantations, the impact of Latin American immigrants on pineapple agriculture and coffee farms, and the intermeshing of Latinxs with Hawai'i's local and multiracial populations. The book provides valuable insights into the Latinx experience in Hawai'i and offers avenues for further research. [Extracted from the article]

The text is a review of the book "In Favor of a Workers' Homeland. Transnational History of the Confederation of Latin American Workers (1938-1953)" written by Patricio Herrera González. The book reconstructs the history of the Confederation of Latin American Workers (CTAL) and its importance as the most important trade union center in the continent in the first half of the 20th century. The author highlights the autonomy of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, a Mexican labor leader, and his ability to negotiate with the State and capital. The relevance of the CTAL in defending labor and social demands, including peasants and indigenous people, is also mentioned. However, the CTAL could not withstand the attacks of anti-communism and US hegemony during the Cold War. The book leaves open topics for future research, such as the failure of the CTAL in the early years of the Cold War and the participation of women in the labor movement and Latin American left-wing movements. [Extracted from the article]

The article "Cultural Ambassadors. Latin American Women and Diplomatic Life, 1860-1960" analyzes the participation of Latin American women in diplomacy and cultural promotion during the 19th and 20th centuries. The authors explore how these women used their positions in embassies and consulates to intervene politically and promote the culture of their countries. The cases of Eduarda Mansilla and Guillermina and Ángela Oliveira Cézar from Argentina, as well as Carmen Bascuñán, Emilia Herrera, and Amanda Labarca from Chile, are highlighted. These women managed to negotiate their role in the diplomatic and cultural world through various strategies and contributed to the development of Latin American diplomacy. The study emphasizes the importance of female friendship and queer networks in the diplomatic field and proposes an expanded terminology to understand the different roles and dynamics in this field. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Las fisuras del lenguaje" by Julieta Gamboa is a review that analyzes the construction of subjectivity in Latin American feminist poetry of the 1980s. It examines five poetry books written by Latin American women in that decade and explores how feminism establishes a dialogue with the poetic field. The book reflects on poetry as a radical subjectivation of language and its ability to establish dialogues between different social discourses. It also addresses topics such as the textualization of the body, the construction of subjectivities, and women's conflicting relationship with language. [Extracted from the article]

The article summarizes the book "Cultural Ambassadors: Latin American Women and Diplomatic Life, 1860-1960" written by Paula Bruno, Alexandra Pita, and Marina Alvarado. The book examines the participation of women from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico in diplomatic life during the 19th and 20th centuries. Cases such as Bascuñán Valledor, Emilia Herrera y Martínez, Amanda Labarca, Concha Romero, and Palma Guillén are highlighted, as they played diplomatic roles or had connections to diplomacy. The book emphasizes the importance of these women as cultural ambassadors and mentions the difficulties they faced in their diplomatic careers. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Cultural Ambassadors. Latin American Women and Diplomatic Life, 1860-1960" is a joint work by three researchers specialized in intellectual history, intellectual networks, press, and cultural history of international relations. The book seeks to unravel the diplomatic trajectories of nine Argentine, Chilean, and Mexican women from the mid-19th century to well into the 20th century. It focuses on the gender perspective and proposes the notion of "cultural ambassadors" to describe the role of these women as representatives of their countries in foreign relations. The book addresses topics such as the emotions of the protagonists, appearance and fashion, and is based on exhaustive research of various types of documents. This book is a valuable contribution to the history of foreign relations and diplomacy in Latin America, combining the gender perspective and cultural history. [Extracted from the article]

The article "Cultural Ambassadors: Latin American Women and Diplomatic Life, 1860-1960" analyzes the participation of women in diplomacy and their influence in the public sphere. The book highlights the lives and trajectories of several Latin American women who held diplomatic roles from the 19th century to the 20th century, such as Eduarda Mansilla, Guillermina Oliveira Cézar, Ángela Oliveira Cézar, Carmen Bascuñán Valledor, Emilia Herrera y Martínez, Amanda Labarca, Gabriela Mistral, Palma Guillén Sánchez, and Concha Romero. The study shows the evolution of women in diplomacy, from traditional roles to professionalization. Additionally, it explores how the literary and private writings of these women can be seen as archives of diplomatic life and how their participation in diplomacy allowed them to get involved in different areas of feminism. [Extracted from the article]

The article "Republics of the New World: the Latin American political experiment of the 19th century" by Hilda Sábato analyzes the regime of government and its associated spaces in the early republics of Latin America between 1810 and 1860. The author argues that these regimes must be understood within the global context of the region and cannot be explained by institutionalist or Marxist determinisms. The text examines in detail elections, militia organizations, and public opinion as spaces of power in these republics. It also highlights the importance of militias in popular mobilization and political representation, as well as the role of public opinion and the written press in the construction of political meaning in the 19th century. However, the absence of Brazil in the analysis is noted, and the intensification of internal disputes in Latin American republics is emphasized. [Extracted from the article]

Making sophisticated use of the critical legal toolkit, Esquirol shows that Global North legal systems do not score that well as liberal legal systems, either. In fact, it can be said that Latin American laws will always have to be more European than European laws themselves to maintain a pedigree that remains outside Latin America's laws and institutions. In one way or another, the problems identified in Latin America are also common to the United States or Europe; Esquirol rightly points out that they are typical of any liberal legal system. [Extracted from the article]

These distinctions between different forms of contact are especially pertinent in a context where "being together in difference as equals" is the priority, as is the case in I Everyday Equalities. i For me, the book's aim of bringing "the political potentials of encounter with difference" into alignment with "being together in difference as equals" (207) is a necessarily fraught one given that encounters offer no guarantee of common ground. As we suggest in the book, everyday encounters have the potential to enact positive change across difference, without resorting to either/or identity politics, but as the book demonstrates, achieving the potential of everyday encounters is hard work. The theoretical framework is enlivened with rich case studies across Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto and Los Angeles, which illustrate how encounters with difference as equals open up the possibility of a liberating politics. Michele Lobo Celebrating and launching this inspiring book with Professor Lesley Head at the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne was a multicultural event that circulated immense joy. [Extracted from the article]

Ecuadorian writer Cárdenas contemplates a dystopian future for Latin Americans in the U.S. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paul Ortiz approaches the book from a historical perspective as he explores the relationships between Latin American, Caribbean, and American history. The author presented a kind of camaraderie and shared experiences between the oppressed people living in the United States, the Caribbean, Central, and South America.Throughout the book, he chronologically poses his arguments to explain the extraordinary journey individuals, groups, and agencies took to fight for emancipation in those places. Ortiz reveals the potential to form an international community aimed to overcome the residual effects of imperialism and colonialism.Ortiz begins by walking readers through various experiences that allowed him to claim his Latinx roots boldly. Moreover, he implores the reader to understand his use of the,sometimes, political terms "Black," "Brown," and Latinx. Certainly, Ortiz shows the potential kinships between African Americans and Latinx peoples that is worth exploring in the current social studies curriculum. Moreover, his use of "x" after the word "Latin" deliberately includes the LGBTQ+ community in this reenvisioned narrative of American history. While Ortiz uses the term Latinx throughout the book, there were no explicit narratives presented to outline LGBTQ+ contributions in the joint fight against imperialism in the Americas. While a missed opportunity, still, by entering "x" as the new terminology about Latinx thinkers, Ortiz helps to make the invisible,somewhat visible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

They also advanced what Marino terms "Popular Front Pan-American feminism", which drew on the ideas of pacifist, communist, working-class and liberal women to promote legislation that favoured working-class women, racial and class unity and global anti-fascism. Marino convincingly establishes that, far from being apprentices of the US feminist movement, these Latin American feminists were its vanguard. Katherine M. Marino, (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), pp. 354, $34.95 hb Katherine Marino's study of early- to mid-twentieth-century feminism in Latin America, what she terms ' I feminismo americano i ', is both enlightening and engaging. [Extracted from the article]

Central to Rivera-Cusicanqui's I "Ch'ixinakax utxiwa" i is the theme of order/ disorder. Therefore, the circularity that Rivera-Cusicanqui describes has brought Euro and indigenous politics in the Andes back toward the expectation of the Indian as an idea but not an actant. [Extracted from the article]

All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It By Denvir, Daniel. By creating the idea of a "good" immigrant and then offering Republicans increased deportations of other undocumented immigrants along with money for border security, Obama managed to move the entire debate on immigration to the right. The horrors of the Trump immigration crackdown, most notably locking babies in cages, has at least gotten the attention of many liberals in a way that previous immigration crackdowns, including that of Obama, did not. [Extracted from the article]

In 2016 the Asociación Alemana de Investigaciones sobre América Latina (German Association for Latin American Research) focused its 2018 conference on football in the region, with the book under review resulting from that meeting. One chapter that stands out is Fischer's interesting overview of the writing of the history of Latin American football. There are chapters on football and identity (both gender and national), on race, on football and political power, on the role of fans, and on the media and football. [Extracted from the article]