Nueva York – Diaspora City: U.S. Latinos Between and Beyond
Back in 1999, New York magazine was renamed Nueva York, at least for the week of September 6. The Spanish ...
Rap and Revolution: Hip-Hop Comes to Cuba
Half an hour’s drive east of Havana is the suburb of Alamar, home to 300,000 Cubans. Built in the early ...
The Road to Durban-and Back
Afro-Latino activists and development workers had long harbored high hopes that the UN World Conference on Racism, held late last ...
The Making of a Transnational Movement
“Allpamanda! Kawsaymanda! Jatarisun!” (“For our land and our life, we shall arise!”) These Quichua words echoed in the streets as ...
Colombia: The Right Gathers Momentum
In the countdown to the May 26 presidential elections, Colombians are bracing for increasing violence while support grows for independent ...
Racial Politics, Racial Identities Race and Racism in the Americas, Part III
“Racial Politics, Racial Identities,” the third report of our “Race and Racism in the Americas” series, explores the ways oppressed ...
Africanity vs Blackness: Race, Class and Culture in Brazil
Most of what the world knows as Brazilian culture, and what Brazil projects in international performance, is of African origin ...
Music and the Formation of Black Identity in Colombia
During my fieldwork in Colombia, I found that music and dance were important to understanding patterns of racism and racial ...
