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Seeing Health Equity Through Homeless Eyes
It was at the end of 2022, during a school project led by the beloved teacher Aline Arruda, that we read the book “Blindness” by José Saramago.
Breaking Stigmas: A Journey to Embrace Neurodiversity
Growing up in a vibrant yet challenging environment in Mexico City, I experienced both the joys of a supportive family and the stark realities of a world that can change in an instant. This is a journey into how those experiences shaped my understanding of neurodiversity and mental health, and why advocating for these issues, particularly in Latin America, is so crucial.
A Review of Mesquite Pods to Mescal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines
Mexican culinary nationalists have enshrined Oaxaca as the “land of seven moles,” the diverse chile stews that provide an Indigenous counterpoint to the supposed cradle of creole gastronomy, Puebla, with its chile and chocolate centerpiece, mole poblano. Although the count of seven moles is an invented tradition, Oaxaca’s culinary roots indeed reach deep into the past, as is shown by the essays in this splendid collection. The volume also effectively illustrates the advances of the archaeological study of food, from an early focus on the processes of domestication and subsistence regimes.
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.
StudEnt Views
La Isla Del Encanto
“Puerto Rico está bien cabrón.”
Archival Sounds and Silences
Laroyê, Exu! This story of archival sounds and silences begins far from the National Archive in downtown Rio de Janeiro, where I spent most of my time bent over the frail pages of 19th-century court papers. It starts in the neighborhood of Realengo, in the outskirts of the city, where I went to visit my godmother, Célia Cristina Pereira de Araújo, and her mother, Valdelice, whom family and friends lovingly call Tia Val.
Rare Diseases as Shared Experiences: Advocating for Health Access in Brazil, Peru and Colombia
Daniel Wainstock first messaged me in the summer of 2021. I had posted a photo of a boy in a wheelchair smiling from ear to ear while we were playing games out in the sun.
Book ReviewS
A Review of Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America
First let’s get the book’s regrettable title out of the way. In eighteen years of covering the wars in Central America as a reporter…
A Review of Essays on 20th Century Latin American Art
Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig’s slim new volume offers a dip into various topics of modern and contemporary Latin American art aimed at a mass audience unfamiliar with the region’s culture (other than perhaps Salma Hayek’s version of Frida Kahlo).
A Review of Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
William Neuman was a New York Times reporter for fifteen years and served as the Times’ Caracas-based Andes Region bureau chief from 2012 to 2016. Neuman is thus well positioned to provide an “inside” view on “the Collapse of Venezuela.”
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