"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

Latin America’s close proximity to the United ... from metropolises to euro-chic cultural hot spots to colorful Spanish-colonial cities to traditional villages,” Titley said.

If we are lucky, we might have a set of confusing answers. We would have vague answers, referring to the Mexican or Brazilian soap operas.

Brazilian anthropologist Luiz Mott is the figurehead of the campaign for citizens’ rights for the LGBTQ+ community in Latin America and its history. In his research he has established that persecution ...

Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America OPEN ACCESS 2020 Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean OPEN ACCESS 2019 Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the ...

Dana Leibsohn’s current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern ...

Relations with Latin America “should be great,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “They need us much more than we need them. We don’t need them.” “What is the point of saying that?” ...

Thanks to one of the largest and best-preserved colonial cores in Latin America, Ecuador's capital was named the very first UNESCO World Heritage site. The city's dramatic setting squeezed between ...

Osowski and Susie S. Porter. Dr. Jaffary regularly teaches classes on the colonial and modern history of Latin America including "Latin America Via the Novel," and "Mexican, Cuban, and US Relations." ...

Who said you need to fly halfway across the globe to experience some of that Old World charm? In case you weren't aware, ...