The AmericasPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/tam.2023.113
Ronald J.O. Flores
{"title":"Dominican Baseball as an Industry and a Democratic Institution - Pitching Baseball: Baseball and Politics in Dominican Republic. By April Yoder. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. Pp. 215. $45.00 cloth.","authors":"Ronald J.O. Flores","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507356,"journal":{"name":"The Americas","volume":"109 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140515749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AmericasPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/tam.2023.102
Mark Lentz
{"title":"Everyday Lives of Sixteenth-century Inhabitants of Mexico City - How to Make New Spain: The Material Worlds of Colonial Mexico City. By Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xvi, 323. $110.00 cloth.","authors":"Mark Lentz","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507356,"journal":{"name":"The Americas","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140520563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AmericasPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/tam.2023.101
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
{"title":"Indigenous Colonial World of Oaxaca - Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico. By David Tavárez. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. Pp. 448. $50.00 cloth; $50.00 e-book.","authors":"Ethelia Ruiz Medrano","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507356,"journal":{"name":"The Americas","volume":"26 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140516701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AmericasPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/tam.2023.105
Brett A. Houk
{"title":"Indigenous Maya and British in Belize of the Caste War - Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War. By Christine A. Kray. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023. Pp. xvi, 239. $95.00 cloth; $30.95 paper; $25.95 e-book.","authors":"Brett A. Houk","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507356,"journal":{"name":"The Americas","volume":"10 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140527312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AmericasPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/tam.2023.103
Jennifer J. Davis
{"title":"English and Spanish Caribbean - Boundaries of Belonging: English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655-1715. By April Hatfield. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 320 pp. $45.00 cloth; $45.00 e-book.","authors":"Jennifer J. Davis","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507356,"journal":{"name":"The Americas","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140523910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AmericasPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/tam.2024.3
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez
{"title":"Formation of Transnational Diasporic Communities - Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948. By Nadim Bawalsa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. Pp. 276. $90.00 cloth; $28.00 paper.","authors":"Mark Overmyer-Velázquez","doi":"10.1017/tam.2024.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2024.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507356,"journal":{"name":"The Americas","volume":"105 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140526241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The AmericasPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1017/tam.2023.88
Travis Knoll
{"title":"“In the Name of the God of All Names: Yahweh, Obatalá, Olorum”: The 1981 Quilombos Mass as an Ecumenical Pilgrimage in Brazil","authors":"Travis Knoll","doi":"10.1017/tam.2023.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2023.88","url":null,"abstract":"On November 22, 1981, thousands of laypeople, along with bishops, priests, and theologians, gathered in Recife to celebrate the Eucharist. Offered during a military dictatorship in a period of popular insurgency, the Quilombos Mass mourned the death of millions in the African slave trade, sought pardon for the Church's past sins, and celebrated the resistance of Blacks in Brazil and beyond its borders. The acclaimed Black Brazilian pop star and activist Milton de Nascimento collaborated with an activist poet and three bishops to produce a multimedia performance; in the spirit of liberation theology, it was marked by striking visuals, dance, music, and the invocation of the sacred. This article draws on reportage, speeches and correspondence, military court and intelligence records, published interviews, and the author's interview with one of its composers. It offers a close textual analysis, with attention to Catholic theological debates, as well as an analysis of the performance itself, drawn from video recordings and bringing attention to aspects neglected by most commentators, who refer only to the album, as it was finally produced. Initially stifled by the Vatican, Milton's masterpiece, issued as an album on vinyl and performed in paid concerts, became a powerful cultural reference for activists, serving as a touchstone for a strategic alliance between Black activists and the liberationist Church.","PeriodicalId":507356,"journal":{"name":"The Americas","volume":"11 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140520193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}