By Kaira M. Cabañas, author of Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art This guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn …
Read More >As we begin National Hispanic Heritage Month, we invited Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa to talk about her ALAA award-winning article “Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies: Queer Latina/x Visual …
Read More >During the early twentieth century, Brazilian photographer Augusto Malta produced a vast archive of photographs of Rio de Janeiro. Through this archive Malta explored two sides of the city: on one hand, …
Read More >by Charles L. Briggs, author of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare In New York City, low-income, especially racialized communities are trapped as the rich flee …
Read More >Since the Latin American Studies Association will be a virtual event, I’m excited to be able to attend virtual sessions and still hold short meetings to answer any questions people may have. …
Read More >For the 2020 virtual Latin American Studies Association Conference, UC Press is committed to sharing the latest research in Latin American Studies. Although we are unable to see you in person, we are …
Read More >Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (LALVC) is proud and humbled to announce that Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa was awarded the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA) 2019 Annual Article Award for her piece “Metamorphic …
Read More >We are looking forward to celebrating the first anniversary of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture at the College Art Association’s annual conference in Chicago this week. Last year at CAA, we announced the …
Read More >The story of Potosí, a virtual mountain of silver whose revelation made world news and became a secular icon after an Andean prospector named Diego Gualpa struck pay dirt high on its flanks in 1545.
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the 2019 American Anthropological Association conference in Vancouver, Canada. Check for other posts from the conference, and if you are attending #AAACASCA2019, don’t miss Christian Zlolniski’s panel “Familiar Strangers: …
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