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Jun
Reflections on 25 years of Refried Elvis (Part 1 of 2)
Celebrating 25 years of REFRIED ELVIS with the first of two posts focusing on the monumental book.
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07
Jun
Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum
Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin …
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Jun
Recovering the transnational history of the Sandinista Revolution
By Eline van Ommen, author of Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had …
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Apr
Q&A with Jessica P. Cerdeña, author of Pressing Onward
Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures …
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Sep
Q&A with Edward F. Fischer, author of Making Better Coffee
An anthropologist uncovers how “great coffee” depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values worked out among farmers, roasters, and consumers. What justifies the steep prices commanded …
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Mar
Materiality, Mobility, Ruins, and COVID-19
By Niko Vicario, author of Hemispheric Integration: Materiality, Mobility, and the Making of Latin American Art Writing a blog entry for the University of California Press website while self-isolating in Brooklyn in …
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Jan
La Perle des Antilles: A Haiti Reading List
Located on the western side of the Hispanola island, Haiti has been a nation plagued by both natural disasters, public health crises, and political unrest throughout modern history. While the current political …
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Dec
Rethinking a Global Latin America
This post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Washington D.C.. Check for other posts from the conference. #AmAnth17 By Matthew C. Gutmann, co-editor of Global Latin America: Into the Twenty-First Century with …
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Sep
3 Books That Go Beyond Borders for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
Kicking off this month throughout Southern California, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Led by the Getty, PST: LA/LA …
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Mar
Race and the Brazilian Body: Exploring ‘Comfortable Racial Contradictions’ in Brazil
This post was originally published on March 6th, 2017 on the University of Arizona’s UANews, by Lori Harwood (UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences). Jennifer Roth-Gordon will speak about her book “Race …
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