In recent decades, an explosion of critical interventions from multiple fields has emphasized the return to the archive as one of the key axes from which central problems of the culture and history of the Americas are thought about, read, and discussed. However, studies on critics and artistic practices have, to different extents, always been anchored in and in conversation with the archive.
This set of presentations sought to reflect on the way in which Latin American studies have positioned themselves...
Now on its fourth volume, the Digna Rabia Undergraduate Journal in Chicanx Studies archives the student oral history projects produced in a course taught by Dr. Pablo Gonzalez on Mexican and Central American migration. First assigned as a term paper for students to document their families’ migration stories, the journal now centers the knowledge production and lived experiences of our migrant families. This presentation discusses the creation of the digital journal, the inclusion of...
Charles Hale is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has received research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 (1994) and co-editor (with Jeffrey Gould and Darío Euraque) of Memorias del Mestizaje: Cultura y Política en Centroamérica, 1920 al Presente (forthcoming)....
