Category: Features
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Indigenous Languages Thrive at UT Austin: Quechua, Nahuatl, and K’iche’
BY SUSANNA SHARPE The Indigenous Languages Initiative (ILI), established in 2013, builds on LLILAS Benson’s longstanding commitment to fomenting and supporting the study of Indigenous…
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Poesía: Disolución gramatical
POR ANA LÓPEZ H before there was land and lust and breathing turning into dust and killable people in god’s dull trust. there was us.…
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The Exhibition on Your Screen: Selected Images from “A New Spain, 1521–1821”
BY ALBERT A. PALACIOS THE VICEROYALTY OF NEW SPAIN was a royal territory in the Spanish Empire formed soon after the invasion and conquest of…
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Confessions of an Archives Convert: Reflecting on the Genaro García Collection
BY DIEGO A. GODOY VOLUMINOUS LISTS OF BANNED OR REDACTED BOOKS, laced with sanctimonious commentary—or, early-modern Spanish “cancel culture.” The illustrated family tree of a…
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Selections from the LADI Repository
BY DAVID A. BLISS THE LATIN AMERICAN DIGITAL INITIATIVES (LADI) website holds archival collections from six of the Benson’s post-custodial archival partner organizations in Latin…
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Inside the Agrasánchez Collection of Mexican Cinema
BY DIEGO GODOY THE YOUNG HIGINIO GRANDA stood soldierly as he faced a mansion on Colón Street in Mexico City. Blond, svelte, and possessing a…
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The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico
BY MATTHEW BUTLER and JOHN ERARD THE ROADS TO MICHOACÁN: MATTHEW BUTLER IT IS SAID that the history of a Mexican pueblo is the history…
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Decolonial Feminists Unite! Dorothy Schons and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
BY ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA BACK IN 1986, when Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz first started speaking to me in my dreams, I would…
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To and From the “Real” World: Concrete Art and Poetry in Latin America
BY JULIA DETCHON IN THE FALL OF 1945, gathered at the Buenos Aires homes of the psychoanalyst Enrique Pichón-Rivière and the photographer Grete Stern, a…
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Voices of Black Brazilian Feminism: Conversations with Rosana Paulino and Sueli Carneiro
EDITED & TRANSLATED by SUSANNA SHARPE THE 2020 LOZANO LONG CONFERENCE, “Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South,” held February…
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Students Use Digital Tools to Examine “Hidden” Collection of Pre-Colonial Objects
Students in Astrid Runggaldier’s Art and Archaeology of Ancient Peru class were tasked with an intriguing project this spring: take a collection of pre-colonial objects…
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“La mitad de mi corazón”: Una entrevista con Montserrat y Fátima Valdivia
BY SUSANNA SHARPE Read in English Olimpia Montserrat Valdivia y Fátima Valdivia son hermanas gemelas idénticas de León, Guanajuato, Mexico, que estudian el doctorado en…