Tag: slavery in the Americas
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The Roque Dalton Archive at the Benson Latin American Collection
Author James Iffland, the pre-eminent biographer of Salvadoran revolutionary and writer Roque Dalton, writes about Dalton’s life and his important archive at the Benson Latin…
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The Back Page: Find Out What’s New for 2021–22
2022 Lozano Long Conference, February 24–25 IN HONOR OF the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference initiates…
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Crónica: Las botas de la Lola
Foreword: The Art of Storytelling Among our amazing students, there is a generalized need to tell stories. Stories about their research, or about personal experiences…
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Dr. Manuel G. Galaviz: From Undocumented Youth to Scholar and Mentor
DR. MANUEL (MANNY) G. GALAVIZ will join the Division of Cultural Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall…
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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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En memoria de Manuel Tahay, amigo y colega
POR SERGIO ROMERO y SUSANNA SHARPE Read in English LLILAS Benson extiende su más sincero pésame a la familia de nuestro querido amigo y colega Manuel…
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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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Poesía: En Calma / Ki’ nuk’u’x
POR NATHALIA HERNÁNDEZ OCHOA, translated to Maya Kaqchikel by the poet and Baldomero Cúma Chávez From the poet: At the moment COVID-19 was declared a…
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Cain, Abel, and the Legacy of Enforced Disappearances
BY ARIEL DULITZKY DURING THE LAST ARGENTINE DICTATORSHIP, at a ceremony marking the 123rd anniversary of the Rosario Police Department in the Province of Santa…
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Staff Pick: Tecuichpoch / Doña Isabel de Moctezuma—Madre del Mestizaje
Catalina Delgado-Trunk Papers BY DANIEL ARBINO God, greed, and glory. These values propelled a cataclysm in Tenochtitlan of never-before-seen proportions when Spaniards entered the heart…
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Staff Pick: “Camas para Sueños” by Carmen Lomas Garza
Carmen Lomas Garza Papers and Artworks BY SUSANNA SHARPE The first time I saw Camas para Sueños (Beds for Dreams) was at the Laguna Gloria…