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Voices of Black Brazilian Feminism: Conversations with Rosana Paulino and Sueli Carneiro

October 28, 2020

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 20–21, 2020, was a groundbreaking gathering of Black women scholars, activists, intellectuals, and artists from … [Read more...] about Voices of Black Brazilian Feminism: Conversations with Rosana Paulino and Sueli Carneiro

Tagged With: Black Brazil, Black Brazilian feminism, Black feminism, Christen A. Smith, Cite Black Women, LLILAS Benson, Lorraine Leu, Lozano Long Conference, Rosana Paulino, Sueli Carneiro, Susanna Sharpe

Staff Pick: The Astonishing Artistic Gem of Manuel de Quiroz y Campo Sagrado

October 28, 2020

La inocencia acrisolada de los pacientes jesuanos, 1816 BY SUSANNA SHARPE In my search for rarely seen treasures from the Benson Latin American Collection, I consulted former colleague José Montelongo, co-editor of A Library for the Americas, a beautifully illustrated volume of collected … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: The Astonishing Artistic Gem of Manuel de Quiroz y Campo Sagrado

Tagged With: Benson Latin American Collection, Genaro García Collection, Julián Hugo Guajardo Esparza, Manuel de Quiroz y Campo Sagrado, María Isabel Terán Elizondo

Miguel Gutiérrez Jr., Photojournalist

April 14, 2020

Miguel Gutiérrez Jr. (MA 2015, Journalism and LLILAS) is a documentary photographer and videographer. He currently works as a photographer and photo editor at the Texas Tribune. Visit his professional website. On April 8, 2020, Miguel took photos of the deserted streets in Austin, Texas, during the … [Read more...] about Miguel Gutiérrez Jr., Photojournalist

Faculty Spotlight: Sandro Sessarego

August 20, 2019

BY SUSANNA SHARPE WE DON'T OFTEN STOP TO THINK about why we speak the way we speak, or how some of our linguistic habits came to be. But this is one of the things linguists like Sandro Sessarego pay great attention to. Sessarego (pronounced seh-SAH-re-go), associate professor in the Department of … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Sandro Sessarego

Tagged With: Afro-Bolivians, Afro-Hispanic languages, Bolivia, contact languages, Sandro Sessarego, slavery in the Americas

Cover Photographer: Adeloyá Magnoni

August 20, 2019

Adeloyá Magnoni is a photographer-activist who uses an anthropological lens to give voice and visibility to diverse sexualities, genders, Afro-religious traditions, social identities, and ethnicities. She is a practitioner of Candomblé—a daughter of Exu and Yansã—bisexual, antiracist, and an … [Read more...] about Cover Photographer: Adeloyá Magnoni

Tagged With: Adeloyá Magnoni, Afro-Brazilians, Candomblé, salvador da bahia

Cuba’s Revolutionary Comics: The Caridad Blanco Collection of Historietas Cubanas

August 20, 2019

BY ADRIAN JOHNSON COMIC BOOKS, originally created as entertainment for children, were long relegated to dime-store magazine racks, children’s bookshelves, and the cheap bin at used bookstores. While sales of comics today are struggling, in recent years they have come to occupy a more important … [Read more...] about Cuba’s Revolutionary Comics: The Caridad Blanco Collection of Historietas Cubanas

Tagged With: Adrian Johnson, Benson Latin American Collection, comic books, Cuba, Cuban comic books, historietas cubanas, revolutionary comics

Interview: Gabriela Siracusano

August 20, 2019

ART HISTORIAN GABRIELA SIRACUSANO studies the material dimension of artistic production in artworks from the sixteenth century to the present. An internationally known and highly sought-after scholar, she is director of the Research Center for Art, Materiality, and Culture at the Instituto sobre … [Read more...] about Interview: Gabriela Siracusano

Tagged With: art history, Blanton Museum of Art, CONICET, Gabriela Siracusano, Instituto sobre Arte y Cultura Dr. Norberto Griffa, materiality, Spanish American colonial art

Louder Than Hell: The Rise of Latinx and Native American Metal

August 20, 2019

BY LUIS ZAPATA When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake. —Allen Ginsberg, paraphrasing Plato ROCK ’N’ ROLL has been the soundtrack of youth rebellion for almost eight decades. It is one of the United States’ most powerful cultural exports to the world. It may seem cliché to … [Read more...] about Louder Than Hell: The Rise of Latinx and Native American Metal

Tagged With: heavy metal, Latinx, Latinx in rock, LLILAS, Luis Zapata, rock 'n' roll, rock en español, Texas Exes

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

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

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