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Culture and Test Development: On the Other Side of the Exam Booklet
English + Português
Like several students now happily marching through college campuses across the United States, I’ve found myself at many a testing center anxiously chewing at my Number 2 pencil and pulling my hair out before a test booklet.
Uruguay’s Autogolpe Fifty Years On: The State of Justice and Backlash Politics
English + Español
In March 2023, I returned to Uruguay for the first time since the Covid pandemic began. While much of the visit was filled with a frenzy combination of archival appointments, oral history interviews and meetings with colleagues, I carved out time on a Saturday to visit the Central Cultural y Museo de la Memoria (the Cultural Center and Museum of Memory [MUME]) before my flight home later that day.
A Review of The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America by Andrea Giunta
Back in 2013 when I started the research for Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists 1960s-2020s (Duke University Press, 2023), I encountered a strong resistance to the term “feminism” among women artists from the 1960s and 1970s.
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.
StudEnt Views
Analyzing Gender in the Moche Society Through Archaeology
Rhea Bennett is a member of the Harvard class of 2020 pursuing a bachelors degree in Anthropology – Archaeology. This interview discusses work she has done for her senior thesis…
A Reflection on Latinx Identity
When I introduce myself to people, I usually don’t mention my Latinx heritage. It may come up at some point during that conversation, but I even have had instances where I surprise close friends…
Afro-descendant Migration on the Colombian-Ecuadorian Border
English + Español
As an Afro-Colombian woman, I find that investigating the the Afro-descendant community’s migrations in the context of the Colombian armed conflict is an experience that crisscrosses my own history. I was…
Book ReviewS
Landscapes of Devils, Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco
Gastón R. Gordillo’s portrayal of the Toba aborigines population from the Gran Chaco is a deep and thoughtful insight into the minds of the men and women of that region and the memories…
Integrating the Americas: FTAA and Beyond
oday, two out of five people in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) live below the official World Bank poverty line of two dollars per day. Over the last two decades, the number of poor…
The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
The profession of an independent economist in 21st century Cuba is unusual. Like unofficial journalists, such economists are targets of government repression. Several of them were…
DRCLAS Podcast: Faculty Voices
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