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“Summer of Science”: STEM for Mexican Indigenous Women
I have spent the majority of my academic life within the world of Mathematics.
State Crime, Extraction and Cartels: The Meaning of Mining in Guerrero, Mexico
English + Español
Like most Mexicans, I’ve been shocked and moved by the 2014 disappearance of 43 students during the presidency (2012-2018) of Enrique Peña Nieto.
A Review of Autocracy Rising: How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism
Few people have written more lucidly about Venezuela’s democratic decline and autocratization over the past 20 years, especially for an English-language audience, as political scientist Javier Corrales.
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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
The Rock Salt of the Earth
In Maceió, my hometown in Brazil, adding to the Covid-19 crisis, my community has been concerned about how to handle the crisis generated by the rock salt extractive business that so far
Connecting Boston with Latin America
English + Español
From the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, our social, academic and cultural gatherings took a 180 degree turn. The conferences we used to go to and the spaces for networking had to
O Estrangeiro No Meu Celular: Conducting Remote Research in a Community of Self-Construction
The photograph below captures afternoon sun shining down over hundreds of homes that step quickly up an urban hill. The buildings are constructed of terracotta bricks and concrete piers and clad with a varied palette of
Book ReviewS
Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America
If I had to think of keywords for this intriguing book, they would be “passionate” and “meticulous,” with a third word bringing these two together: “design.” I agreed to review this…
Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America
I started graduate school in September 1978, around the zenith of authoritarianism in Latin America. After the Argentine military coup in 1976, only three of twenty countries in the…
The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation and the Archives of Contradiction
This book by Harvard Professor Lorgia Garcia-Peña embarks on an ambitious exploration of the limits of Dominican identity seen through the prism of culture, geography and race…
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