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The Virus of Inferiority: The Puerto Rican Status Question
“¡Yo me iría a U.S.A. si pudiese!” “¡En Estados Unidos todo es mejor!” “Ay, si fuésemos un estado…” There is an illness amongst Puerto Ricans. Not an illness of bone or skin, of the blood or of the heart.
Overcoming Domestic Violence in Latin America: The Need for Education, Employment and Equality
English + Español
Education can make a big difference as a strategy to stop the reproduction of poverty cycles or eliminate the way it is handed down among families.
A Review of Other Americans: The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary
Merilee Grindle’s fascinating biography of Mexican-American anthropologist Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933), In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations, is a welcome sign that the field of Nutall studies is expanding.
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
Death in Paradise
English + Español
Flying in from the north, you can see the geographic divide of the virus in the shift from the sickly yellow-green of the pineapple fields to the dark rise of lush mountain ranges. From the sky you can see the plantations, where impoverished immigrant workers have no social distancing, PPE, or access…
Where Were the Women in Colonial Brazil?
Exploratory archival research can be a solitary – not to mention thankless – task. Most of the time, we spend many hours going through very old manuscripts whose historical value we can’t even determine for sure. The goal is usually to find some sort of primary source…
A Tale of the Three Canudos
English + Español
When we arrived it was still daytime. It had taken us twelve hours to get there, almost twice as much as expected. As I got off the bus, I felt a heat wave slap me on the face. The air was humid,
Book ReviewS
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of New Architecture
Growing up in the midst of the Irvine Company’s unimaginative southern California, without exposure to anything other than strip malls and suburban…
Doña Lucía: La Biografía no Autorizada
The day Lucía Hiriart returned to her native Chile from Ecuador in 1959 was not a happy one. With five young children in tow, she and her husband Augusto…
Cosmopolitan Desires
In January 2015, shortly after terrorist attacks in Paris, the slogan “Je suis Charlie” began to circulate on Twitter and to appear on demonstrators’ signs in Paris and…
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