A valuable case study into the potentially contradictory effects of overwhelming cultural domination
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Subversive screens
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Tag: Latino
Here to stay
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By 2050 one in three Americans will be Latino – making it imperative that ordinary people understand this demographic trend
Categories: North America, United States
People’s history at its best
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Cultural diversity thrived on both sides of the US-Mexican border in the heady atmosphere of revolution
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Colour codes
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A novel journey into the changing ways colour influences the meanings attributed to the term ‘Latino’ and its many derivatives
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, United States
Tijuana unmasked
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Tijuana is no longer seen as a sordid pleasure dome existing outside Mexican and US culture and is now being understood as a global city of the future
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Slavery blindness
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The US is the destination for large numbers of Latin Americans trafficked through coercion to serve as sex workers, domestics and labourers – yet society and officialdom are in denial about these modern slaves of America
Categories: Central America, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, North America, Panama, South America, United States
Ways of looking
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Edward McCaughan blends cultural theory with the study of social movements to come up with an original view of the ideology hidden in images
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Feast of inequality
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A collection of essays that weaves together diverse approaches to inequality in Latin America provides a toolbox of sharp instruments with which to dissect the region’s condition
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Freighted Refuge
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Michael Caylo-Baradi marvels at Fukunaga’s brave journey into the world of migrants and Maras
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, United States
Weighting for gordito
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Cultural attitudes have contributed to an obesity epidemic among Latino communities, argues Charlotte Kellogg
Categories: North America, United States