Latin American Perspectives is a peer-reviewed academic journal associated with the University of California, Riverside that focuses on Latin American studies regarding capitalism, imperialism, socialism and their relation to political economy.[1]
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| Discipline | Latin American studies |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Ronald H. Chilcote |
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| History | 1974–present |
| Publisher | Sage Publishing on behalf of the University of California, Riverside |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
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| ISO 4 | Lat. Am. Perspect. |
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| ISSN | 0094-582X (print) 1552-678X (web) |
| LCCN | 74645710 |
| OCLC no. | 1794709 |
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History
editAfter the Latin American Studies Association called in 1970 for a journal focusing on various viewpoints to be founded, Latin American Perspectives was founded in 1974 by Ronald Chilcote, who sought to create a scholarly publication on Latin America containing material from multiple perspectives,[2] Chilcote's wife Frances, Bill Bollinger, Donald William and Marjorie Woodford Bray, and Tim Harding all from California State University, Los Angeles, Norma Stoltz Chinchilla of the University of California, Irvine, Michael Kearney of the University of California, Riverside, Richard Harris of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Nora Hamilton of the University of Southern California.[3]
In 1991, the journal's article "Voices of the Voiceless in Testimonial Literature" first provided a scholarly debate surrounding the cultural acceptance of literature provided by overlooked social groups in Latin America.[4] Following a 1996 conference discussing race in Latin America, Helen Safa was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation to stay one of their fellowship centers in Bellagio, Italy to edit "Race and National Identity in the Americas", a special issue of Latin American Perspectives.[5] In 1997, the journal published one of the first detailed works focusing on the media in Argentina during the Dirty War.[6]
Reception and impact
editEBSCO Information Services lists Latin American Perspectives as one of its key academic journals specialized on Latin America.[7] In the Journal of Contemporary Asia, Jack Arn wrote that most authors in the journal support the dependency theory.[8] Reforma wrote that the journal publishes articles that "make the recent history of Mexico known to the American public."[9] According to Carmen Diana Deere, Latin American Perspectives performs better in the SCImago Journal Rank when compared to the Impact factor calculation, with Deere saying that "Scopus includes a much larger number of journals, and many more from Latin America where its articles are more likely to be cited."[10] In 2022, the Latin American Studies Association awarded the journal's founder Ronald Chilcote the Kalman Silvert Award, its most distinguished award.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Latin American Perspectives records". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ^ Chilcote, Ronald H. (November 1998). "LAP at 25: Retrospective and New Challenges". Latin American Perspectives. 25 (6): 5–22. doi:10.1177/0094582X9802500601.
- ^ "Latin American Perspectives - Founders". Latin American Perspectives. Riverside, California: University of California, Riverside. 2015. Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
- ^ Anderson, Mark Daniel (2015). "Modernism, Crisis, and the Ethics of Democratic Representation in Fernando del Paso's Total Novels". Latin American Research Review. 50 (2): 42–62. doi:10.1353/lar.2015.0017.
- ^ Safa, Helen I. (January 2012). "Class, Gender, and Race in the Caribbean: Reflections on an Intellectual Journey". Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies. 37 (74): 219–242. doi:10.1080/08263663.2012.11006009.
- ^ Cassara, Catherine (2011). "Roots of Revolution: The Press and Social Change in Latin America". Journalism History. 37 (2): 125.
- ^ "Hispanic American Periodicals Index | EBSCO". EBSCO Information Services. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ^ Arn, Jack (January 2002). "The hydra of development studies". Journal of Contemporary Asia. 32 (2): 171–190. doi:10.1080/00472330280000111.
- ^ "La Cultura Política". Reforma. 13 August 2006.
- ^ Deere, Carmen Diana (2018). "The Practice of Latin American Studies: Dilemmas of Scholarly Communication". LASA Forum. 49 (3): 16.
- ^ "Kalman Silvert Award: Ronald H. Chilcote". Latin American Studies Association. Retrieved 26 November 2023.