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Shedding Light on Neglected Histories and Herstories of Radical Urban Communities: An Interview with LALVC Contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa

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 …

From the cholera epidemics to COVID, racialization of disease is an old trend

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 …

For LASA, Enrique Ochoa-Kaup Shares Virtual Conference Highlights

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. …