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The words of a Venezuelan woman living in one of the humanitarian shelters that receives refugees and migrants in the city of Boa Vista, in the state of Roraima, in northern Brazil, stuck with me…
Another Controversial World Cup to Remember: 45 years later
Over the course of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, held last December in Qatar, one major theme dominated Western headlines—the human rights situation within the host country.
A Review of Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relation of Oil in Amazonia
Amelia Fiske’s ethnography, Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relation of Oil in Amazonia, widens and deepens details of Ecuador’s highly controversial, post-1960s, Amazon oil development.
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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.
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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.
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The Venezuelan Gold Rush
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Control by armed criminal groups, sexual abuse of women and children, slavery, child labor, mercury poisoning, malaria outbreaks, malnutrition, torture, forced disappearances, forced
El Niño Fidencio: Healing Power of the Afflicted
A few years ago, during my first semester at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), I was shocked when Professor Davíd Carrasco lectured about his research on the transnational Mexican curandero
We the People Constitutional Reform and Immigration in Chile
This January, I had the pleasure of interning virtually with the Constitutional Lab at the Diego Portales University based in Santiago, Chile. Driven by a desire to attain fluency in Spanish and
Book ReviewS
Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce
At a fancy yet packed bar in Tokyo’s most cosmopolitan district; at the patio of a bar in Vancouver facing the Canadian Rockies; at a hotel lounge bar overlooking the skyline of…
The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America
Despite its recent successes, the gay rights movement in Latin America is generally ignored in discussions of contemporary Latin American politics. Even students of Latin American social…
The Yaquis and the Empire
Winner of the 2015 Latin American Studies Association Social Science Book Award and runner-up for the 2015 David J. Weber-Clements Prize of the Western History Association, The Yaquis…
DRCLAS Podcast: Faculty Voices
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