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In Search of a Vanished Afro-Brazilian Novel
Manuel Bandeira’s poem “A Morte Absoluta” (“Consummate Death”), first published in Portuguese in 1940 and newly translated by Candace Slater in 2018, contemplates the relationship between death and oblivion.
Disability, Care, and Support in Colombia and Beyond Challenges and Hopes for Change
I remember vividly that day in Cali in 2013. I was very new to the world of people with disabilities, their families and caregivers, trying to decipher that language that needs no words. As national director of a research project on “accessible television for deaf people” (INSOR-ANTV, 2013-2014), I met a mother who was a caregiver and whose presence said it all. Her eyes bore the weight of too many sleepless nights, of a tiredness that was not only physical. In a low voice, almost a whisper filled with contained resentment, she told me, “Luis Miguel, the laws are designed to protect our children, but what about us? We are the population abandoned by the legislator.”
A Review of The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Revolution, Crime, and Policing during Chavismo
Venezuela has undergone stark transformations in recent decades. Once hailed as one of Latin America’s most stable democracies, the country has more recently been afflicted by widespread economic and humanitarian suffering, causing a mass exodus of its population that has reverberated throughout the region. Despite its substantive importance, comparatively few deep academic studies of contemporary Venezuelan politics exist that can shed light on the causes of this crisis.
From Our Current Issue
When the Water Rises, Inequality Overflows: A Tale of a Foretold Tragedy
Tatiane Flores, a physical therapist in her early twenties, arrived at the place where her first-floor apartment used to stand. All she saw was a pile of mud and debris. The acrid smell of dirty water still lingered in the air. “ Now I come here and don’t even know if I have a home anymore.
Waxing and Waning: Institutional Rhythms of Inequality
Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was famous in her time, well-known as an archaeologist, an Americanist, an antiquarian, an ethnologist, a folklorist and “a lady scientist”; she was a woman “making it” in a man’s world from the 1880s to the 1930s. Deeply engaged in research about ancient civilizations in Mexico, she led a remarkable life as a pioneer in the evolution of anthropology as a field of study.
Urban Divide: The Structural Roots of Housing Inequality in Tijuana
The transformation hits you as soon as you cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
Spotlight
Perspectives in Times of Change
Check out these reflections on social, economic, cultural and political transformations in Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx communities in the United States.
Latin American Restaurant Workers: Surviving a Hurricane in Pandemic Times
A photoessay by Lisette Morales McCabe
2022: Uma Encruzilhada Histórica
English + Português
Este segundo turno da eleição 2022 no Brasil é um embate histórico entre visões de mundo. Entre concepções de vida e seus sistemas de valores. Você vai eleger (etimologia: escolher) em que mundo seria concebível viver.
Fritangas
In Latin America, a house is a family heirloom that gets passed on for generations.
StudEnt Views
Come to Brazil: An Adventure in Four Chapters
English + Español
This past January, we embarked on a mission we had been planning for over six months: bringing a hundred Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) students from all over the world to Brazil.
Who or what is to blame for the Venezuelan crisis?
English + Español
From being Latin America’s envy in the 80s to being the destroyed country that it is, there is a lot to learn about who or what is to blame for the Venezuelan socio-economic crisis.
Reflections on Chinese Mexican Living Archives: Geneaologies of Resistance
Beginning in the 19th century, Chinese migrants fled civil unrest, violence, overpopulation and poverty in China.
Book ReviewS
A Review of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter
Almost twenty years ago, Thomas Friedman claimed that globalization had made the world flat. From Shannon O’Neil’s point of view, the topography is a bit more rugged.
A Review of Escape a los Andes
In Escape a los Andes, journalists Raúl Peñaranda and Robert Brockmann seek to reconstruct the efforts by Mauricio Hochschild, better known as Bolivia’s tin baron, to facilitate the massive entry of Jewish refugees escaping from the Nazi racial policies of the 1930’s.
A Review of Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States
In Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom, political scientist Mneesha Gellman aims to show how access to Zapotec and Yurok language classes encourages youth resistance to culturecide—defined as the killing of Indigenous culture.
DRCLAS Podcast: Faculty Voices
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