Tag: land rights
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Black Feminist Epistemologies: Learning with Sueli Carneiro
BEING A GRADUATE STUDENT is not easy, especially in a prestigious program such as the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. In spring 2023, the authors, along with fellow Brazilian students, were talking about the challenges with Dr. Christen Smith, our adviser, and she said, “I…
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Benson Acquisition: Augusto Roa Bastos Papers
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the literary archives of César Vallejo and Augusto Roa Bastos, two giants of Latin American letters. These archives augment the Benson’s already significant collection of materials that represent the region’s writers, thinkers, and intellectual leaders, making the library, and the UT…
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Between Words, Between Worlds: Linguistic and Contextual Disruptions in the Transition from English to Spanish Literacy among Children Moving from the U.S. to Mexico
ALTHOUGH THE ARE OFTEN INVISIBLE, children are international migrants crossing borders, generally as members of families. This article addresses one of the foremost questions in education and learning against the backdrop of large-scale international migration, in which children are active participants. In a reversal of migration patterns, individuals are moving with increasing frequency from countries…
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Epistemologias Feministas Negras: Aprendendo com Sueli Carneiro
SER UM ESTUDANTE de pós-graduação não é fácil, especialmente em um programa de prestígio como o Instituto Teresa Lozano Long de Estudos Latino-Americanos (LLILAS) da Universidade do Texas em Austin (UT). Na primavera de 2023, nós, as autoras, junto com outros estudantes brasileiros, estávamos falando sobre os desafios da academia com a Dra. Christen Smith,…
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A Polyphony for New Worlds in Abiayala: The 2024 Lozano Long Conference
THE 2024 LOZANO LONG CONFERENCE, “Indigenous Lands, Resisting Sexualities in Abiayala,” held April 18 and 19, was a space for enriching a dialogue that included diverse voices and bodies from across Abiayala.1 Different from more traditional academic fora, the conference introduced an unconventional dialogical format that did not always require spoken words, but included complicit…
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Field Notes Student Photography Exhibition
EACH YEAR, LLILAS Benson invites graduate and undergraduate students from all departments and disciplines to submit photographs to the Field Notes Student Photography Exhibition. Through these images, student photographers document scenes witnessed during their research on Latin America, U.S. Latina/o communities, the Caribbean, and the Black Diaspora in the Americas. The images on these pages…
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Guest Review: Exploring the Depths of Migue Roth’s “El Desvío”
by AMELIE BAQUERO LANZADURI In the remote setting of El Desvío, a solitary man navigates the unforgiving terrain of the Patagonian Steppe. Once-familiar paths are now intersected by imposing wire fences, delineating the territories of a foreign landowner. His 34 young goats must now roam farther in search of scarce pasture. This short film by…
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To the Reader, 2023 Edition
WELCOME to another issue of Portal, the annual magazine of the partnership between the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. We are always immensely proud to publish the work of faculty, students, staff, and alumni. We invite you to read our recent graduate Ana Kearney…
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Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Frens-String
JOSHUA FRENS-STRING is a historian of modern Latin America and assistant professor in the Department of History. His research and teaching examine the history of revolution in modern Latin America, popular politics, labor history, global agricultural history, food politics, and U.S.–Latin America relations. He is the author of Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the…
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Faculty Spotlight: Megan Raby
MEGAN RABY is a historian of science and environment whose research and writing highlight transnational connections in science between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. Her book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), winner of the History of Science Society’s Philip J. Pauly…
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7 Questions for Gioconda Belli
Leer en español GIOCONDA BELLI, one of the foremost figures in Nicaraguan literature and politics, has chosen the Benson Collection as the home for her archive. Belli is the acclaimed author of nine novels, a memoir, two volumes of essays, nine poetry collections, and four children’s books. She has been the recipient of several major…
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7 Preguntas para Gioconda Belli
Read interview in English GIOCONDA BELLI, one of the foremost figures in Nicaraguan literature and politics, has chosen the Benson Collection as the home for her archive. Belli is the acclaimed author of nine novels, a memoir, two volumes of essays, nine poetry collections, and four children’s books. She has been the recipient of several…
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Pido la Palabra: A Texas Prison Literature Project for Social Justice and the Literary Imagination
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCARCERATION AND LITERATURE has a long history. From antiquity to modern times, writers who have experienced incarceration have used the written word to create a space of ethical reflection and critical analysis of societal ills. In prison, preserving one’s humanity becomes an ethical rather than an ontological stance; writing, a means to…