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Recent investigations at the Maya centre of Nakum (located in northeastern Guatemala) included intensive excavations of Structure X (a.k.a. Structure 104)-one of the largest pyramidal temples at this site. This research showed that the... more
I propose a rich theoretical understanding on Afro-Latino student development based on critical race theory, culturally responsive pedagogy and practice. Addressing racial disparities is about engaging students thereby making their lives... more
It has been argued that the first presidential campaign of Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina used a rhetoric of newness. Some political observers have said that as the “first women” to successfully... more
The 1990s marked the turning in the development of the Cuban community, as the second generation of Cuban-Americans flexed its political muscles from Miami to Washington, D.C., while witnessing the transition from exiles to immigrants.
BARRIERA, Darío y DALLA CORTE, Gabriela (compiladores) Espacios de familia: ¿tejidos de lealtades o campos de confrontación? Tomo I, España y América, siglos XVI-XX Jitanjafora, México, marzo de 2003, 324 pp. (co-compilador) - ISBN... more
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, Black Nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power... more
US Central Americans are destabilizing, reconceiving, and revitalizing the US Latina/o canon, and in doing so, they are forcing us to reconsider hegemonic ideas about Latinidad. The cultural production of Latinos/as of Central American... more
The author takes her escrevivência as a Brazilian black trans woman and experiments with the poetics of Atlantic water to let the text itself be a transitioning space of poetics-autoethnography-cosmology-water-energy-memory tissue. Water... more
Almost a century before the “mass emigration” of Jews from Morocco during the mid-twentieth century, to Israel and to destinations in the West, Moroccan Jews had been engaging in long-distance emigrations, typically from the... more
Review of Alex E. Chávez, Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño. 2017.. Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 3(2), pp.170–171.
With two new publications, the Museum of Mormon History in Mexico has firmly established itself as a leading venue for the production of Mormon history in Mexico. The Spanish translation and English commentary on Part 1 of F. LaMond... more
En este trabajo indagamos las claves de la escritura que Servando Teresa de Mier propuso y desplegó en su obra Historia de la revolución de la Nueva España (1813) tendentes a construir una trama narrativa americana que editó documentos y... more
Objective: Discrimination against nonnative speakers is widespread and largely socially acceptable. Nonnative speakers are evaluated negatively because accent is a sign that they belong to an outgroup and because understanding their... more
Based on an original definition of modern populism as “democratic illiberalism” and many years of meticulous research, Takis Pappas marshals extraordinary empirical evidence from Argentina, Greece, Peru, Italy, Venezuela, Ecuador,... more
È uscito il volume A. Pascale, Ascesa e declino dell'impero statunitense, tomo 1 – Genesi di un regime elitario (dalle origini al 1945), La Città del Sole-L'AntiDiplomatico, Napoli 2022. Il testo consta di 620 pagine ed è acquistabile al... more
Stages of Conflict brings together a vast array of dramatic texts, ambitiously tracing the intersection of theater and social and political life in the Americas over the past five centuries. Including eighteen works faithfully translated... more
This dissertation examines the participation of indigenous workers in the colonial mining industry of the Guanajuato-Michoacán region and the impact that this industry had on those workers and their communities of origin. In the... more
Dating from the Reagan presidency’s ‘crusade for freedom’, democracy promotion has been a central pillar of US foreign policy. Whether claims by George H.W. Bush that ‘beyond containment lies democracy’, or by George W. Bush that... more
Resulta sintomático de la manera en que se escribe la historia nacional salvadoreña, lo selectivo que suelen ser las fuentes documentales primarias. La historia se convierte en una materia flexible y maleable al antojo del presente, el... more
Un recorrido por la historia del cine uruguayo de ficción según los "nacimientos" proclamados ya sea por la prensa como por los propios realizadores.
https://violenciaesp.hypotheses.org Programas de erradicación de “villas miseria”, construcción de autopistas, creación de pueblos estratégicos, rediseño de espacios públicos, edificación de estadios y readecuación de ciudades para la... more
Memoria gramentada de Cholito donde nos cuenta la historia de su familia que es su propia historia.
(CRIES), a non-partisan think tank and network. He has authored several books both in Spanish and English, edited more than 30 collective volumes both in English and Spanish, and published more than 200 academic articles in Spanish,... more
FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism is pleased to announce the launch of issue #15, “Learning Art and Resistance from the South”. This issue was guest edited by Eva Marxen of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.... more
Cuando en diciembre de 1983 retornó la democracia, el Ejército (y las FFAA en su conjunto) era la institución más denostada de la Argentina. La represión ilegal, el hundimiento económico y la guerra de Malvinas, es decir la dictadura,... more
The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. Madrid uses extensive fieldwork, interviews with performers, eyewitness accounts of performances,... more
During the 1990s and 2000s, a policy known as Education with Community Participation (EDUCO) not only became the cornerstone of education reform in El Salvador but also became a global education policy, one which is known for... more
Diálogos Judiciales en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos es una obra académica que refleja el resultado de una deliberación entre jueces, investigadores, académicos y litigantes sobre las relaciones entre la Corte... more
A collective intellectual biography that sheds new light on the Annales school, structuralism, and racial democracy. Would the most recognizable ideas in the French social sciences have developed without the influence of Brazilian... more
Brazil has endured multiple political, economic, and environmental crises-and now the COVID-19 pandemic-which have drawn social inequalities into razor sharp relief. This contribution analyzes the resilience of rural families facing these... more