Two centuries after Cortes and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain’s conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain’s American empire. …
“The Forbidden Lands” concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil’s most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on social, cultural, and …
Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both …
“Cultural agency” refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in …
How was frontier expansion rationalized in the Americas during the late nineteenth century? As new states fleshed out expanded national maps, how did they represent their advances? Were there any …
“The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader” brings together thirty-six field-defining essays by the most prominent theorists of Latin American cultural studies. Written over the past several decades, mostly in the …
In Not Myself Without You, a working-class Puerto Rican family of the 1950s lives surrounded by spirits, ghosts, and witches, a result of incantations performed in their living room. Chronicling …
As part of the Arizona State University Hispanic Research Center’s ongoing project to document the work and careers of Chicana/o artists, the Yo soy/I am DVD series features interviews with …
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In Alma Lopez’s digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two icons—the Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cards—embrace one another, symbolically …
