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Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Leutert

August 20, 2019

BY SUSANNA SHARPE STEPHANIE LEUTERT IS NOT AFRAID to make a cold call and she does not shy away from difficult questions. If she wants to learn more about an issue, she will often pick up the phone to ask an expert. These qualities, along with a deep sense of justice and humanity, have led her to … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Leutert

Tagged With: Immigration, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Mexico Security Initiative, migration, Richard Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Stephanie Leutert

So Close Yet So Far: How a Group of Deportees Is Building Rapport in Mexico City

August 20, 2019

Leer en español. BY ALVARO CÉSPEDES Ana Laura López, 43, was about to board a plane from Chicago to Mexico City on September 30, 2016. She remembers the date clearly, as her life would never be the same again. “I never thought this was going to happen to me,” said López, sitting on a couch … [Read more...] about So Close Yet So Far: How a Group of Deportees Is Building Rapport in Mexico City

Tagged With: Alvaro Cespedes, Deportados Unidos, deportation, Immigration, Mexico City

Salmon Production in Chile: The Making of a Commodity Region

August 20, 2019

BY BEATRIZ BUSTOS CHILE is a country commonly known for its turbulent political past and its economic achievements over the last twenty years. Neoliberal policies such as privatization and deregulation have been implemented there under the premise that open and free access to global markets … [Read more...] about Salmon Production in Chile: The Making of a Commodity Region

Tagged With: Beatriz Bustos, Chile, LLILAS Benson, Los Lagos, salmon, salmon farming

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

Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st-Century Brazil

August 20, 2019

BY JOSHUA REASON FOR DAY OF THE DEAD LAST YEAR, toward the end of my Fulbright research in Salvador da Bahia, I attended “Elas Não Morreram” (They Did Not Die), a drag show commemorating the five-year anniversary of Coletivo das Liliths, an LGBTQI1 theater collective I had become acquainted with … [Read more...] about Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st-Century Brazil

Tagged With: Brazil, Joshua Reason, LGBTQI, LGBTT, LLILAS Benson, salvador da bahia, trans, transgender, travesti

Reading between the Lines at Cajamarca

August 20, 2019

BY R. ALAN COVEY ON NOVEMBER 16, 1532, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro seized a powerful lord named Atahuallpa during a surprise attack in the highland Inca city of Cajamarca. Despite the cautious interpretations of modern historians like William Prescott and John Hemming—who treat … [Read more...] about Reading between the Lines at Cajamarca

Tagged With: Atahuallpa, Cajamarca, Francisco Pizarro, Incas, Peru, R. Alan Covey

Indigenous Self-Determination and Drug Trafficking in Mexico’s Tarahumara Region

August 20, 2019

Leer en español. BY FÁTIMA VALDIVIA IN OCTOBER 2018, Julián Carrillo Martínez, an indigenous Rarámuri defender, was killed in his community of Coloradas de la Virgen, located in the municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo, in the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Together with his community, … [Read more...] about Indigenous Self-Determination and Drug Trafficking in Mexico’s Tarahumara Region

Tagged With: drug trafficking, Fátima Valdivia, Indigenous Issues, indigenous women, Rarámuri, Student Research, Tarahumara

Auto-Determinación Indígena y Tráfico de Drogas en la Región Tarahumara, México

August 20, 2019

Read in English. POR FÁTIMA VALDIVIA EN OCTUBRE 2018, Julián Carrillo Martínez, defensor indígena rarámuri, fue asesinado en su comunidad Coloradas de la Virgen, ubicada en el municipio de Guadalupe y Calvo, en el estado de Chihuahua, al norte de México. Junto con su comunidad, Julián había … [Read more...] about Auto-Determinación Indígena y Tráfico de Drogas en la Región Tarahumara, México

Tagged With: Fátima Valdivia, LLILAS, Rarámuri, Tarahumara, tráfico de drogas

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

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