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Staff Pick: Student Activism in the Archives

October 30, 2020

BY ALBERT A. PALACIOS Uruguayan Political Propaganda, 1963–1984 There is a very serious plague that has been scourging through the country for years now, and that plague is imperialism. In the summer of 1969, Uruguayan trade unions flooded the streets of Montevideo to protest the visit of … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: Student Activism in the Archives

Tagged With: activism, Albert A. Palacios, Archives, Benson Latin American Collection, Economy Furniture Company, Economy Furniture Company Strike, Human Rights, Rockefeller, Uruguayan Political Propaganda

Staff Pick: Black Freedom Struggle and the University

October 30, 2020

The John L. Warfield Papers BY ZARIA EL-FIL Freedom has long been theorized in university spaces as a matter of intellectual engagement. Historically, Black freedom organizing has taken place at the collegiate level through research that throws white western conceptions of world order into … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: Black Freedom Struggle and the University

Tagged With: activism, African and African Diaspora Studies, Archives, Benson Latin American Collection, Black Diaspora, Black Diaspora Archive, Black Studies, Blackprint, Human Rights, John L. Warfield, Student Research, Zaria El-Fil

Staff Pick: Catalina de Erauso o sea la monja de alferes

October 29, 2020

Catalina de Erauso o sea La monja de alferes, XIX century, an unpublished version of the legendary life of Catalina de Erauso (1592–1650) BY BROOKE WOMACK SOMETIME IN 2018, I bought myself a copy of Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell. This book has plates of gouache paintings by the author depicting … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: Catalina de Erauso o sea la monja de alferes

Tagged With: Archives, Benson Latin American Collection, Brooke Womack, Butch Heroes, Catalina de Erauso, Genaro García Collection

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

Anzaldúa across Borders: A Traveling Thought Gallery

August 27, 2017

BY SUSANNA SHARPE An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are cables that hold up the bridge. —Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987 When Chicana author, cultural theorist, and feminist Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa died in 2004, she … [Read more...] about Anzaldúa across Borders: A Traveling Thought Gallery

Tagged With: Archives, Benson Latin American Collection, Chicana literature, feminism, Gloria Anzaldúa

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