As an instructor at Rutgers-New Brunswick, I have had the opportunity to observe how other White Latinxs learn about and discuss whiteness. Recently, a former student reached out to discuss race and ...

In a hair dye factory in Medellín, Colombia, Yaricel del Carmen Vielma sat facing a bare concrete wall, rushing to meet her weekly quota. During every eight-hour shift, she filled tiny tubes with ...

From the United States to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas, the collective scapegoating and mass deportation of Haitians for political gain lays bare a particular kind of anti-Blackness. Bertin M ...

2021 was the bloodiest year in Ecuador’s prison history. Four massacres in three different supermax penitentiaries took the lives of over 320 inmates in Cuenca, Latacunga, and Guayaquil. Forensic ...

Ada Ferrer's latest book is a nuanced study tracing the importance of slavery to U.S. Cuba relations from American independence through the Civil War. In Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer tells ...

Two weeks ago, on December 6, police fired tear gas and live ammunition at villagers who had blocked the road into their community of several hundred residents, called Chapin Abajo in northern ...

In 2016, I interviewed 26 members of the Argentine armed forces who were in active duty during the country’s last military dictatorship, some of whom were under house arrest. After three months of ...

The Mexico City metropolitan area is so enormous it almost had two time zones. In 2001, the head of the government for the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador now Mexican president refused ...

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When Eli Ramos crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, he was 17 years old and thousands of miles from his nearest family member. Entering the country as an unaccompanied minor, he would spend the next two ...

First impressions matter and diablos rojos (“red devil”) buses make bold introductions. A riot of colors and images streaks down the street with booming bass and flashing lights. Everyone looks up ...

Jogo de bicho, which literally translates as “animal game,” was created in 1892 by João Batista Drummond, a baron who owned Rio de Janeiro’s first zoological garden. Seeking to attract more visitors ...