New from UNC Press Blog UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Latina/o Studies Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our table to say hello to editor Andreína Fernández and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth! And be sure to stop by on Friday from 3:30-4:30 pm to connect with Latinx Histories Series Editor Michael Innis-Jiménez! Latinx Histories Series Latinx Histories is premised on the view that understanding Latinx history is essential to a more complete and complex understanding of the histor ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940 by Elizabeth O’Brien, which is now available wherever books are sold. In the early morning hours of March 12, 1884, a pregnant eighteen-year-old walked on a derelict pathway in Mexico City. Known colloquially as Devil’s Alley, the street has been featured in generations of ghost stories and urban legends. It was also infamous as a site of sexual commerce. Historians do not know what brought the girl to the backstreet, but we do know that ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog It’s New Books Tuesday and In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine by Eric D. Carter is now available wherever books are sold. In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine by Eric D. Carter A remarkable look at the origins and evolution of a transnational sociomedical perspective in Latin America of great interest to historians of medicine and leaders of social medicine all over the world. Marcos Cueto, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Brazil Throughout Latin America, social medicine has been widely recognized ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala by Sarah Foss, available wherever books are sold. Defining Indigeneity In 1945, the newly created IING sent surveys to the directors of national schools in sixteen of Guatemala’s twenty-two departments, selecting those with substantial Indigenous populations. Because a large majority of responders were ladino, the IING phrased questions to explore perceptions of what characteristics these responders used to define someone as Indigenous. Guiding all survey questions ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog It’s Tuesday which means we have new books that are officially on-sale wherever books are sold! You can also see our list of everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press page and you can sign up for our monthly eNews to get updates in your inbox about new books, news, promotions and more. Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt “Elizabeth Engelhardt vividly establishes how southern boardinghouses were crucibles and the women who kept them were agents of impro ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Since 1968, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th – October 15th every year to honor the cultures and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans and celebrate heritage rooted in all Latin American countries. You can learn more about the history of NHHM at hispanicheritagemonth.gov. To celebrate we’ve curated a reading list of some of our recent Hispanic and Latin American titles, including the first book in our new Latinx Histories series. Enjoy this reading list and use code 01UNCP30 to get 30% when orderi ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog Happy New Books Tuesday! We have three exciting new books publishing today. Browse our newest releases or take a look at everything new this month on our Hot Off the Press. Plus, if you want updates in your inbox every month on new titles and what’s happening at UNC Press, you can sign up for our monthly eNews here. Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South by Diane Flynt with a foreword by Sean Brock and Photographs by Angie Mosier A Ferris & Ferris book “Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived is a personal journey through the storied o ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha which is available wherever books are sold. “Nwokocha’s superb work offers a much-needed corrective to previous scholarship that presents Vodou as a religion defined by poverty and precarity. Her skillful observations and thoughtful descriptions of the thoughts, desires, and delights of deities and devotees reveal the rich thought-world of Vodou as it is practiced today.” Dianne M. Stewart, Emory University The Gods ..read more

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America: Collective Action in the Digital Age by Pascal Lupien, which is available now wherever books are sold. This is a thoughtful and impressive study. Lupien sheds important light on twenty-first century Indigenous political dynamics in the Andes, teaching us sobering lessons about the limits of digital technologies and the surprising promise of analog communication. For its timely attention to information and Indigenous politics, this is the book many of us have been waiting for. José Antonio Lucer ..read more