Post-Doctoral Fellow Trowbridge delivered her mock job talk
CLAS Post-doctoral fellow Jennifer Trowbridge presented her job talk to a small group of faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students. The group focused on helping her develop her presentation for purposes of employment applications. Trowbridge presented a 50 minute talk and heard suggestions from anthropologists, historians and cultural studies specialists about developing the presentation further.
Prof. Flores publishes "Latinidad is Cancelled"
Professor Tatiana Flores recently published "“Latinidad Is Cancelled”: Confronting an Anti-Black Construct" in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (July 2021).
"Adopting a hemispheric perspective, this essay problematizes the construct of latinidad by foregrounding how it reproduces Black erasure. I argue that “Latin America,” rather than being a geographical designator, is an imagined community that is Eurocentric to the degree that its conceptual boundaries exclude African diaspora spaces. I then turn to understandings of whiteness across borders, contrasting perceptions of racial mixture in the United States and the Hispanophone Americas. Lastly, I examine works by (Afro-)Latinx artists whose nuanced views on race demonstrate the potential of visual representation to provide insight into this complex topic beyond the black-white binary."
Prof. Berg Publishes new book: Migración
Professor Ulla Berg edits a new collection of essays for CLACSO: Migración
Coedited with Iréri Ceja and Soledad Álvarez Velasco. The volume is free and downloadable in PDF format.
Dissertation Defense: Creating Cali
Jazmin Puicon defended her dissertation on October 30th as part of the Ph.D. program in Latin American History. Her dissertation, "CREATING CALI: THE RISE OF POPULAR DEMOCRACY IN THE CAUCA VALLEY, COLOMBIA DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" engages labor, gender, migration and cultural history to tell the story of how urban workers came to shape and conceive their neighborhoods and class culture.