A pioneering effort to tell the untold story of how enslaved women in Cuba and Brazil contributed to the process of abolition
Categories: Brazil, Caribbean, Cuba, South America
Women who broke their chains
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Tag: Social history
The sound of damage
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A study of Cuban composer Emilio Grenet helps to illustrate the profound damage done by the continued US embargo
A revolutionary paradox
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A literary-critical analysis of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas provides valuable insights into the relationship between sexual politics, art and revolution
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
Lore of the pampas
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A study of the gaucho in ‘foreign’ literature demonstrates that this icon of Argentine identity is also a product of cultural exchange
Categories: Argentina, South America, Uruguay
Super squares
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The heroic visions that shaped modernism outside Latin America have fashioned more complex legacies in the region itself
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Central America, Mexico, North America, Panama, South America, United States
Empire state
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A groundbreaking study into the economics of imperialism reveals the domestic forces driving US policy abroad
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, 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
All over bar the shooting
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Mexico’s great revolution – the fiesta of bullets – has been kept alive only through the work of academics themselves
Categories: Mexico, North America
A riot of rice
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A stimulating – and tasty – reflection on the relationship between Puerto Rico’s national cuisine and global trends
Categories: Caribbean, Puerto Rico
Flower power
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Brazil’s student protests throughout 1968 set the tone for the real challenge to military dictatorship that would emerge thereafter
Categories: Brazil, South America