Syllabus Fall 2017: Poverty and Inequality in the Americas
HIST 600 Poverty and Inequality in the Americas Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2017 / W 1:20-3:15 / Humanities 5257 Poverty and inequality are not new problems, but […]
Category Archives: Latin America
“Social Science, Cultural Imperialism, and the Ford Foundation in the 1960s,” in The Global 1960s
I have a chapter in this edited volume, The Global 1960s, on how the Ford Foundation gets trapped by a climate of suspicion it helps create as it tries to move […]
Review of “Precarious Paths to Freedom”
I have a review of Aragorn Storm Miller’s Precarious Paths to Freedom in the August issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies. In the past several years, historians have been busy […]
“The South is Our North,” in Jacobin
In Jacobin no. 25, dedicated to Latin America and the Pink Tide, I have a short article on the problems and promise of TeleSUR. The promise: The problem that TeleSUR […]
On the “Understanding Latin American Politics” podcast with Greg Weeks
I’m on podcast #33 of the very informative “Understanding Latin American Politics” podcast with Greg Weeks. We talk about how I got started doing the kind of work that I […]
Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America has won the 2017 Luciano Tomassini Prize
My book, Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, was released on September 14, 2015 by Harvard University Press. It ships (Amazon, Powell’s). It can be purchased […]
Stop calling the United States a banana republic
Up today at The Baffler, Patrick Blanchfield and I take on the morally obtuse trope of comparing the United States to a “banana republic.” It erases the U.S. role in creating […]
