By CAMILLE C. CARR La memoria de mis ancestras camina conmigo y me acompaña a todas partes. [The memory of my female ancestors walks by my side and accompanies me everywhere I go.] —Mayra Arboleda Mina MY RELATIONSHIP WITH VICHE began on a chilly September night in Colombia’s capital … [Read more...] about The Archives of Viche: Black Women and the Embodied Production of Distilled Spirits in the Colombian Pacific
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Lost and Future Cities: Explorations in the Wilderness and Imaginaries of Modernities in Brazil
By BEATRIZ JAGUARIBE Blank Spaces and Amazonian Imaginaries LIBRARIES EVOKE other libraries. The turning of pages leads to other geographies of letters that emerge as tokens of memory. Reading in the Benson Latin American Collection and scanning the archives for references about the … [Read more...] about Lost and Future Cities: Explorations in the Wilderness and Imaginaries of Modernities in Brazil
Faculty Spotlight: Daniel Brinks
DANIEL BRINKS is professor of government and law and current chair of the UT Austin Department of Government, where he specializes in the fields of comparative politics and public law. He previously served as co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Daniel Brinks
Artist Spotlight: Juan Pablo Abalo
By SUSANNA SHARPE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECENT HISTORY, an artist-in-residence will spend a semester at LLILAS. Chilean composer, musical producer, and writer Juan Pablo Abalo will take advantage of access to LLILAS and the Benson Latin American Collection to conduct interdisciplinary research, … [Read more...] about Artist Spotlight: Juan Pablo Abalo
Black Feminist Epistemologies: Learning with Sueli Carneiro
By ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO and ANA LUIZA BIAZETO Antes de ser um tema acadêmico, o feminismo negro é uma causa, é uma luta, e é uma forma de insurgência contra toda a opressão que as mulheres negras sofrem na sociedade. [Before being an academic topic, Black feminism is a cause, it is a … [Read more...] about Black Feminist Epistemologies: Learning with Sueli Carneiro
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
By VÍCTOR ZÚÑIGA 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 … [Read more...] about 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
A Polyphony for New Worlds in Abiayala: The 2024 Lozano Long Conference
By MARÍA JOSÉ PÉREZ SIÁN 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 … [Read more...] about A Polyphony for New Worlds in Abiayala: The 2024 Lozano Long Conference
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 … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Frens-String
Beyond the Music: Daniel Party on Víctor Jara and the Many Facets of Musicology
MUSICOLOGIST DANIEL PARTY was Tinker Visiting Professor at LLILAS during spring 2023. He is an associate professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he holds joint appointments in the College and the School of the Arts. His research interests include popular music and culture of the … [Read more...] about Beyond the Music: Daniel Party on Víctor Jara and the Many Facets of Musicology
Finding God over the Airwaves: Is Religious Media Driving Protestant Growth in Latin America?
BY GUSTAVO FUCHS PROTESTANTISM HAS BEEN ON THE RISE across Latin America for decades. Scholars have tackled this historic trend by examining the underlying social conditions that drive millions to adopt a different religion in a historically Catholic region. Studies have shown that Pentecostal … [Read more...] about Finding God over the Airwaves: Is Religious Media Driving Protestant Growth in Latin America?
