Sunday, February 12, 2006

Most Interesting "General" Latin American Studies Book I've Read

would have to be Alma Guillermoprieto's The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now.

As a journalist and not necessarily an anthropologist or political scientist, Guillermoprieto manages to describe Latin America in a way that we normally do not see as academics -- she presents interviews but also examinations of the media from the various countries she has personally covered.

Anyone interested in Latin American events from the early nineties (she covers nine cities through various social/political upheavals) should check out this book. It's actually a page-turner.

(Random House, 1994)

Props to Maureen Long, who assigned this book when I was in her Intro to Latin American Studies class.

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