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Candela Marini is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Spanish at MSOE University.

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Latin American Studies November 30, 2021

Lula and His Politics of Cunning

From Metalworker to President of Brazil

John D. French

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Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing São Paulo. He learned to read at …
Latin American Studies September 2, 2021

Ink Under the Fingernails

Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Corinna Zeltsman

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During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for political power. In Ink under …
Latin American Studies July 2, 2021

No Laughing Matter

Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media

Luiz Valerio de Paula Trindade

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No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media (Vernon Press, 2020) examines the social phenomenon of construction and dissemination of colonial-like racist discourses fostered against upwardly-mobile black women …
Latin American Studies May 12, 2021

Staging Frontiers

The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay

William Garrett Acree

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Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American best sellers. But when these  stories jumped from the page to the circus stage and beyond, their cultural …
Latin American Studies December 15, 2020

Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises

A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse

Ana Beatriz Ribeiro

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What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew …
Latin American Studies August 28, 2020

The Denial of Antiblackness

Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering

João Costa Vargas

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An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society. Thanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western …
Latin American Studies August 5, 2020

¡Destape!

Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina

Natalia Milanesio

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Under dictatorship in Argentina, sex and sexuality were regulated to the point where sex education, explicit images, and even suggestive material were prohibited. With the return to democracy in 1983 …
Latin American Studies June 22, 2020

Sex, Skulls, and Citizens 

Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)

Ashley E. Kerr

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Analyzing a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910) (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020) argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era …