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Tan Cerca y Tan Lejos: Cómo un Grupo de Deportados Está Creando Solidaridad en la Ciudad de México

August 20, 2019

Leer en inglés. POR ALVARO CÉSPEDES Ana Laura López, de 43 años, estaba por abordar un avión de Chicago a México el 30 de septiembre de 2016. Ella recuerda la fecha claramente, ya que su vida nunca volvería a ser la misma. “Nunca pensé que me fuera a pasar a mí”, dijo López, sentada en un … [Read more...] about Tan Cerca y Tan Lejos: Cómo un Grupo de Deportados Está Creando Solidaridad en la Ciudad de México

Tagged With: Alvaro Cespedes, Deportados Brand, deportados mexicanos, Deportados Unidos, serigrafía

The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

August 20, 2019

BY EDWARD SHORE CARLITOS DA SILVA was an activist and community leader from São Pedro, one of 88 settlements founded by descendants of escaped slaves known in Portuguese as quilombos, located in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil’s Ribeira Valley (Vale da Ribeira). During the early 1980s, amid an … [Read more...] about The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Black Diaspora Archive, Edward Shore, land rights, LLILAS Benson, post-custodial archives, quilombolas, quilombos, Vale do Ribeira Brazil

A Matter of Perspective: Violence, Victims, and the Quest for Dignity in Memory

August 20, 2019

BY RICARDO CASTRO AGUDELO COUNT TO FOUR. One number per second. One . . . Two . . . Three . . . Fo . . . Nearly four seconds. That’s how long it took for the Monaco building to collapse amidst a slow-rising cloud of gray dust on February 22, 2019, in Medellín, Colombia. The Monaco, an … [Read more...] about A Matter of Perspective: Violence, Victims, and the Quest for Dignity in Memory

Tagged With: Colombia, drug trafficking, journalism, Lozano Long Conference, Medellín, narcos, Pablo Escobar, Ricardo Castro Agudelo

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

August 27, 2018

BY MEGAN RABY At the end of 1960, near Cienfuegos, Cuba, on the Soledad estate of a US-owned sugar company, the American Director and Cuban staff of Harvard’s Atkins Institution began packing up their scientific equipment. The Cuban Revolution had caught up with them. Director Ian Duncan Clement, … [Read more...] about Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

Tagged With: Atkins Institution, Cuba, Harvard House, Jardín Botánico Cienfuegos

Faculty Spotlight: Jason Borge

August 27, 2018

BY SUSANNA SHARPE In his new book, Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz (Duke, 2018), Jason Borge uses jazz as a way to interrogate the complex intersections of North and South, race and class, cultural identity, and even politics and foreign policy. The very earliest seeds … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Jason Borge

Tagged With: Jason Borge, jazz, Latin American jazz, politics of jazz

Faculty Spotlight: Kelly S. McDonough

August 27, 2018

BY SUSANNA SHARPE There is a term in the Nahuatl language that means learned person, sage, or knowledge keeper: itxtlamati (plural, ixtlamatinih), a compound of the words meaning face and to know. The concept of knowledge gleaned from experience is central in the work of Kelly S. McDonough, … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Kelly S. McDonough

Tagged With: Indigenous Issues, Kelly McDonough, Nahuas, Nahuatl

Alumni Spotlight: A Language Is Not a Widget

August 27, 2018

BY JOSEPH M. PIERCE It has been five years since I completed a PhD in Spanish American Literature, and seven since completing the MA in Latin American Studies at LLILAS. A lot has changed in the past decade. But change is always a matter of perspective. I was recently at LLILAS for a conference … [Read more...] about Alumni Spotlight: A Language Is Not a Widget

Tagged With: Joseph M. Pierce, LLILAS, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, UT alumni

Four Centuries of Rare Documents Will Be Digitized in Partnership with Puebla Archive

August 27, 2018

BY SUSANNA SHARPE August 8, 2018, was an auspicious day for students of Mexican history. An agreement signed between LLILAS Benson and the Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Estado de Puebla marks the official start of a project to digitize a large collection of archival materials from the Fondo … [Read more...] about Four Centuries of Rare Documents Will Be Digitized in Partnership with Puebla Archive

“To die little by little”: Disappearance and Ambiguous Loss in the Lives of Activist Mothers in Contemporary Mexico

August 24, 2018

Leer en español. BY MORAVIA DE LA O Margarita1 has spent the last nine years looking for her son, Mauricio. She keeps a manila folder with photos and articles about his case that she brings when I interview her in June 2017. In one of the photos that she shows me, a young man in glasses is … [Read more...] about “To die little by little”: Disappearance and Ambiguous Loss in the Lives of Activist Mothers in Contemporary Mexico

Tagged With: Ayotzinapa, Enforced disappearance, Mexican mothers

María Luisa Puga: A Life in Diaries

August 24, 2018

BY JOSÉ MONTELONGO Deciding how to end a novel is the author’s privilege. To write novels for a living is a volatile career choice, at least when it comes to paying rent, but the destiny and shape of your characters is not volatile at all, it’s your prerogative—you are the one choosing when and … [Read more...] about María Luisa Puga: A Life in Diaries

Tagged With: Archives, diaries, literary archives, María Luisa Puga, Mexican literature

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