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What Your Naked Bodies Told Me
Twelve actors were seated on a game board, staring intently at us. I entered and took a seat in a chair in the corner. Spectators were scattered across the board, clustered in small groups of five or six around each actor. In front of me on the floor sat actor Daniel Tonsig, who looked deep into our eyes for long, silent seconds.
Your Struggle is My Struggle: Voices Against Alligator Alcatraz
On a sweltering, overcast Florida afternoon on July 4th, 2025, about fifty people congregated at a multigenerational Miccosukee Seminole camp, a site rooted in history and cultural significance. Just a quarter of a mile away looms the Dade-Collier Transition and Training Airport, now hauntingly renamed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
A Review of How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Fatal Quest for Answers
Dom Phillips, 57, was writing an environmentally significant book when he was brutally killed with Bruno Pereira in the Amazon on June 5, 2022. The crime that shocked the world interrupted their lives, their dreams, and his deep commitment to the Amazon. The book, just published, has four chapters and an introduction written by Dom. The manuscript was saved because he had left his computer back home after his last trip. Six dedicated journalists studied his notes, trying to capture his intention, his views and the places he had traveled. The title How to Save the Amazon has the terribly sad subtitle, A Journalist’s Fatal Quest for Answers.
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.
Governing Uncertainty
In May 2025, INCAE, a prominent Latin American business school, hosted the first Anticipatory Leadership Week of the Global Curriculum for Anticipatory Leadership (GCAL). Leaders gathered in Costa Rica to explore how anticipating future trends—from AI to sustainability—can shape decisions today.
El Salvador: Waves of Erasure
Listen to the song Soldadito Marinero—little soldier sailor—by the Spanish Basque Country rock band Fito y los Fitipaldis. It says that he wanted to be a child, but the war caught him too soon. Something like this happened to Carmelo.
The Dress Reimagined
Every morning, you decide what clothes to wear. Whether plain or elaborate, your choice of apparel reflects a quiet act of self-definition. Through her exhibit, Addressing the Dress, Mexican artist Angeles Salinas reclaims the dress as a site of transformation, threading together themes of personal struggle, cultural inheritance and feminine agency to assert control over her evolving identity.
StudEnt Views
“Yoltajtol. A Word from the Heart”: The Nahuatl Worldview Comes to Harvard
On February 28th, the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project held the inaugural Nahuatl Workshop “Yoltajtol, A Word from the Heart.” The workshop had the twofold goal of offering an introduction to the Nahuatl language and showing to the participants that Nahuatl is a constitutive part of present-day indigenous peoples’ worldview.
CPR Ambassador Journey
English + Español
One of the simplest yet most effective ways of saving a life in the case of sudden cardiac arrest is cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It’s an accessible procedure to be trained on, as almost anyone of any age can learn it. Knowing this, and that performing CPR right after cardiac arrest increases survival chances two to three times, why hasn’t everyone been trained on CPR at some point in their lives? (American Heart Association).
Decriminalizing ‘Colonial’ Laws in the Anglophone Caribbean – ‘Buggery’
The moment I stepped foot back on the island, I was no longer the 14-year-old boy who once proudly wore his school uniform to Wolmer’s Boys High School—the oldest school in the Caribbean—and to Maranatha Gospel Hall, my local church. I had become something else entirely in the eyes of the state: a criminal. An illegal presence.
Book ReviewS
A Review of The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras
Christopher Loperena’s book, aptly titled the Ends of Paradise, brings forth sharp analysis of the threats to Garifuna life in Honduras through what he calls a “racialized extractivisim” (13) that involves land theft supported by the state, state-developed tourism and appropriation of culture by the mestizo nation.
A Review of Liberating Spiritualities
As the director of a doctoral program in spirituality, colleagues and students often ask me if I have any recommendations for articles or books they should read. Because the field of spirituality is a new one in academia, fresh research is always emerging. This year, my number one recommendation is Chris Tirres’ new book, Liberating Spiritualities.
A Review of The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia
Brooke Larson’s book on the history Indigenous education in Bolivia is a masterpiece. It is deeply researched, beautifully written, a pleasure to read and a gift to historians of Bolivia, education, Indigenous movements and so much more.
DRCLAS Podcast: Faculty Voices
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