"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 ...

Migration and Immigration in Latin America, and "Race" in Colonial Latin America. "A prominent writer from the U.S. south once commented that the past was not dead, nor was it really past. The same ...

The conquests and subsequent colonial experience have long generated impassioned debate. Many Latin American leaders now ...

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 ...

We know that we have a brutal colonial legacy, of violence and racism, of being looted by the United States, of dictatorships. For me, Latin America is a living being, it’s radical, extreme ...