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What Resistance Means in Brazil: Protests Break Out Against Abortion Law Proposal
English + Español + Português
Walking down the streets of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on June 23, I felt a different spirit in the air other than the typical boisterous playful crowd on the beach — one of outrage, strength and resilience.
Crime and Punishment in the Americas
As 2024 ushered in, newly-elected Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa issued a state of emergency in his country, citing a wave of gang violence spurred by the prison escape of a local criminal leader with ties to Mexico’s ruthless Sinaloa Cartel.
A Review of The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World
Colonial Reckoning. Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba is the latest work by historian Louis A. Pérez Jr., whose broad academic interests have mainly revolved around the island’s culture, identity, historiography and political economy, as much as its conflicted albeit intimate relationship with the United States
From Our Current Issue
Weaving Memory through Fashion: The Magical Genesis of Equihua
Growing up in California, I spent so much time gazing at the sky, often losing myself in its vastness.
Unsubmissive Images
Hemetério José dos Santos (1858-1939), a Black grammarian and teacher at Rio de Janeiro's most important schools suffered racist attacks in the press because of the way he dressed.
Transnational Fashion on the Frontier: Migration and Modernities in the Brazilian Amazon
When you think of fashion, you might not think of politics.
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
Olha, a japa que não é japa
English + Português
When I first arrived in São Paulo, Brazil, I was simply relieved to not stand out physically
Education Reform and Teachers’ Unions in Mexico
Shortly after being sworn in as the President of Mexico in 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto and his administration announced a series of ambitious structural reforms, addressing policy areas such as transparency, energy and education.
Flowers in the Desert
English + Español
I have many times desecrated the name of my country. Every chance I got, I have recited to different friends Enrique Lihn’s poem “Nunca salí del horroroso Chile”…
Book ReviewS
A Review of The Pen, the Sword, and the Law: Dueling and Democracy in Uruguay
David Parker’s book on dueling in Uruguay was worth the wait. Along with his work on the history of the middle classes in Latin America, in the last two decades Parker had published several articles and book chapters that advanced our knowledge about the modern adoption of that violent ritual in the region.
A Review of Resortes de la organización en el campo, Guatemala 1975 a 1980
One of Guatemala’s most illustrious thinkers and activists, Ricardo Falla, SJ, has lived through considerable historical transformations, including his own.
A Review of Sujetos del deseo.
In Sujetos del deseo, Chilean poet and translator Soledad Marambio posits that literary translators—so often considered an almost spectral presence in their silent rendering of a source text into a target language—can be a force of resistance and cultural mediators between Latin America and the United States.
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