Rosana Paulino, Paraíso tropical (Tropical Paradise), 2017. Digital print on fabric, cut out, acrylic and sewing, 96 × 110 cm. Photo: Júlia Thompson
This platform brings together students from different fields—Latin American Studies, Sociology, Political Science, History, Architecture, Economics, among others–who believe that the study of Latin American and Caribbean racial formations offers useful tools for strengthening racial justice everywhere. Students analyze slavery, servitude, music, sports, activism, architecture in diverse contexts across the region. By decentering the study of the African diaspora, they show that the region provides valuable opportunities for examining the development of race and racism and for thinking about anti-racism, not least when recent events worldwide have demonstrated that we are living in an era of intensified racist expressions and racial injustice.
Architecture of Slavery | The Valongo Wharf and Violence in Preserving a History
By Kendra Soler freedom in destruction. Favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty…
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“El Corte”: A Forgotten Genocide
By Peter Everett The Massacre River today. The Fateful Day Rushing water separates the Dominican Republic…
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Gone But Not Forgotten: The Overlooked Struggle of Chinese “Slaves”
By Nevin Coyne The Untold Story of Asian Labor in Cuba starting in 1847 and lasting…
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Bleeding for his Mercy: Black Conquistadors in Spanish Conquest
Spencer McClure “I, Juan Garrido, black resident of this city, appear before Your Mercy and state…
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Antonio Maceo: A Moral Hero
Matthew Reich "My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may…
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Beatriz Nascimento: Brazil’s Black Feminist Revolutionary
Nyanna Williams | May 5, 2021 Beatriz Nascimento c.1980 "When I returned again to my studies,…
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When an Afro-Caribbean American Took Up Both Arms and a Pen to Fight Slavery
By Gretchen Blackwell Black Members of the 1868 Louisiana Constitutional Convention.1 In 1861, Eduoard Tinchant left…
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Mystery or Cognitive Dissonance: How the Afro-Porteño Press Contradicts Argentina’s Contemporary Narrative on Race
By Fielding Lewis Afro-Argentines enjoying mate From Colonization To Maradona At the 2018 World Economic Forum…
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Harlem’s Home Town Tunes
Matthew Oscarson What time to be alive. When you think of the Harlem Renaissance in the…
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Sword or Slave: Three Fates of a Slave and Pirate Encounter
By Raymond James It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining…
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Roberto Clemente: A Gamechanger on and off the Baseball Diamond
By: Greg Ruppert Roberto Clemente was a talented man on the baseball diamond but a better…
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Black Lives Matter in Brazil, Or At Least They Do to Mothers
Harry Walker Protesters Hold Crosses Bearing the Names of Victims—Including That of João Pedro, 14, Who…
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