Welcome to the LAP Virtual Exhibit
Latin American Perspectives publishes six issues per year featuring critical analysis of Latin American politics, economics, culture, and social movements.
Managing Editor: Ronald H. Chilcote
Recipient of the 2022 LASA Kalman Silvert Award for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to the study of Latin America
To watch the Silvert award session and Dr. Chilcote's lecture on YouTube, click here
To read Dr. Chilcote's essay The Challenges of Being a Latin Americanist in the LASA Forum, click here.
LAP celebrates 50 years of
- fostering progressive theoretical and political debate
- encouraging the work of emerging scholars
- making scholarship from Latin America available in English
Rated the #1 journal in Latin American Studies by Google Scholar Metrics
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Book Presentations
May 25, 12:30-1 pm, Latin American Studies and the Cold War with author Ronald Chilcote
May 25, 2-2:30 pm, Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments with chapter author Federico Rossi
LAP Editors and Friends Meeting Thursday, May 25, 5:15-6:45 pm
Latin American Studies and the Cold War
Authors: Ronald H. Chilcote
Language: English
Edition: 2022
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Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments
Creative Tensions between Resistance and Convergence
Authors: Steve Ellner, Ronaldo Munck, and Kyla Sankey (Eds.)
Language: English
Edition: 2022
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Latin American Extractivism
Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective
Authors: Steve Ellner, (Ed.)
Language: English
Edition: 2021
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Contemporary Latin American Revolutions
Authors: Marc Becker
Language: English
Edition: second, 2022
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Latin America's Pink Tide
Breakthrougs and Shortcomings
Authors: Steve Ellner, (Ed.)
Language: English
Edition: 2019
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Memory, Truth and Justice in Contemporary Latin America
Authors: Roberta Villalon, (Ed.)
Language: English
Edition: 2017
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Urban Latin America
Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms
Authors: Tom Angotti (Ed..)
Language: Emglish
Edition: 2017
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Rethinking Latin American Social Movements
Radical Action from Below
Authors: Richarad Shtahler-Sholk, Harry E Vanden, and Marc Becker (Eds.)
Language: English
Edition: 2014
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Latin America's Radical Left
Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century
Authors: Steve Ellner, (Ed.)
Language: English
Edition: 2014
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The United States and Cuba:
From Closest Enemies to Distant Friends
Authors: Francisco Lopez Segrera
Language: English
Edition: 2017
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