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 ...
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 ...
Rap and Revolution: Hip-Hop Comes to Cuba
Half an hours drive east of Havana is the suburb of Alamar, home to 300,000 Cubans. Built in the early ...
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 ...
Colombia’s Indigenous Communities Try to Survive
In the wake of the suspension of peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ...
Sara Méndez Finds her Son
MONTEVIDEOMore than 20 years of tireless effort finally paid off for Uruguayan Sara Méndez on March 19 when she was ...
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 ...
Chavismo at the Crossroads: Hardliners, Moderates and a Regime under Attack
On Monday, April 15, the day after his dramatic return to power, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called for a national ...
