Dr. Jake Blanc spoke with Carlos about his new book Before the Flood: the Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil. Historias Podcast · Historias 100 – Brazil’s Itaipu Dam, Displacement, and Democracy with Jake Blanc
1. Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, UNC Charlotte2. Stephen Morris, UNAM3. James Wood, North Carolina A&T4. Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas5. Lou Pérez, UNC Chapel Hill6. Devyn Spence Benson, Davidson College7. Renee Scherlen, Appalachian State University8. Miriam Jorge, University of Missouri-St. Louis 9. Mark Setzler, High Point University10. Paul Worley, Western Carolina Read more…
Land and the control of it lay at the core of Latin American economic inequality, social unrest, and political violence. It animates the scholarship on the region. In such countries with large indigenous communities as Bolivia, Mexico, and Honduras, the systematic dispossession of land remains an unresolved and contentious issue Read more…
La historiadora Natalie Kimball discute son nosotros su trabajo Un secreto a voces: La historia del embarazo no deseado y el aborto en Bolivia. El libro acaba de salir impreso por la universidad de Rutgers. Kimball investiga las experiencias personales e íntimas que las mujeres bolivianas han tenido con la Read more…
Presenters at the March 2020 SECOLAS meeting in Austin, Texas are encouraged to submit their papers for possible publication in The Latin Americanist Annals issue. The Annals edition is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal issue published by SECOLAS, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Winthrop University, and the University of Read more…
Dr. David Dalton joined Steven to discuss his book entitled Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Historias Podcast · Historias 97 – Technology and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico with David Dalton After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate Read more…
Dra. Cecilia Tossounian en su libro La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina: Gender, Nation, and Popular Culture reconstruye diferentes representaciones de la feminidad moderna de la Argentina de los años 20 y 30, un período complejo en el que el Argentina vio la prosperidad y la crisis económica, una población Read more…
Dr. Matthew Pettway joined Steven to discuss his new book Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion. By focusing on the Afro-Cuban poets Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, known as Plácido, Pettway explores how they intertwined Spanish and African bodies Read more…
El historiador peruano Gianncarlo Muschi nos habla de su investigación de doctorado que analiza la historia de migración peruana a Paterson, New Jersey en Estados Unidos. Su trabajo de muestra cómo las estrategias peruanas para sobrevivir a la economía informal en el Perú como el “recurseo,” fueron también instrumentos que Read more…
One of the more consequential and least studied outcomes of Bolivia’s 1952 national revolution was settling and transformation of the country’s tropical eastern frontier. In a conversation about his new book Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present, Ben Nobbs-Thiessen explains how Read more…