Browsing W&L Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program by Issue Date
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Healing from Peru's Dirty War: Trauma, Memory, and Visual Arts
In this paper, I explore the traumatic effects in Peru after the twenty-year-long internal conflict between Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path) and the Government(s) of Peru specifically through recent Peruvian art. In ... -
Hispanic K-12 Students in the United States Public School System: Why are they Disproportionately Underachieving in School?
Hispanic students account for 22% of all people enrolled in school in the United States and, on average, these students are significantly educationally underachieving compared to their white peers in every academic measure. ... -
Microentrepreneurs, Microfinance, and Business Training: Cases from Chile
This project will be focusing specifically about the case of Chile and the various organizations aimed to assist entrepreneurs. I aim to use the data and theories of microfinance and small business development to evaluate ... -
How Do You Integrate In Your Own Country? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Rural-to Urban Migration and Inclusion in Sao Paulo and Manaus, Brazil
We should view the trend of rural-to-urban migration as critical to the development of Brazil, whether that is through industrial development in São Paulo or commercial development in Manaus. However, the process of ... -
The Silencing and the Vocalization of the Transgender Latin American Identity and the Transgender Latinx Identity
Throughout Latin America and the United States, transgender individuals experience a political and social silencing and loss of personhood due to their transgression of the rigid gender binary. In the United States, ... -
Shifting Borders: Language and Identity along the U.S-Mexico Border
Aimed at drawing to light the dynamic relationships between identity, language, and borders, this investigation first delves into a consideration of language as a tool to combat existential doubt in “Existence to Expression”. ... -
Black-Robe Shamans: The Jesuits and the Guarani Land-Without-Evil
The Jesuits utilized the appropriation of the Tupí-‐Guaraní culture and spiritual practices as a means of quasi-syncretic evangelization in the Southern Cone. However successful, this doctrinally controversial activity ... -
Narcoterrorism: The Growing Threat in Latin America
This paper will explore and analyze how Latin America and the Caribbean has been such a conducive environment for the growth of narcoterrorism historically, as well as investigate the new developing threat of Islamic ... -
The Trajectory of an Image: Che Guevara's Legacy in the Context of Cultural Memories (poster)
The proliferation of murals, posters, monuments, museums and tourist sites dedicated to Che speaks to the lasting cultural relevance of Che as a man, and Che as a symbol. The various permutations of Che -- seen in the ... -
From Nemesio to Moncada: Major League Baseball and the Development of a Baseball Identity in Latin America
Baseball is one of the most popular sports in the world, and it has grown to be the most popular sport in a number of Latin American countries. However, that was not always the case. Through this paper, I am doing a study ... -
Refugee Crisis in the Western Hemisphere: Violence, Movement, and the Response of the United States
The aim of this paper rests on the argument that the nature of the violent conflict in the Northern Triangle of Central America necessitates that those who are fleeing the region should be considered asylum-seekers or ... -
The Past and Present Nutritional Trends in South America and the Interaction with the Western World
The folk wisdom of the native Indians remarkably proceeded thousands of years of scientific research. Their knowledge is a testament to understanding one's body and one's surrounding. However, due to globalization, these ... -
The Media's Voice When There Was No Other: Newspaper Coverage of the Argentine Dirty War
The period of state sponsored violence, known as the dirty war (guerra sucia), from 1976-1983 marked the disappearances, tortures and ultimately murders of an estimated 18,000 to 30,000 victims in Argentina. Throughout ... -
The Jewish Diaspora in Argentina: An Evolving Identity
The Jewish Diaspora in Argentina is an altogether unique entity; a small but strong community that has developed a distinctive and evolving modern Judeo-Argentine identity in the face of persistent anti-Semitism, unsupportive ... -
The Dominican Republic Major League Baseball Academies: Facilities of Opportunity
Nearly 30% of all Major League Baseball players today are from Latin America, and with the exception of the United States, the Dominican Republic is the most represented on all MLB rosters. The recent significant increase ... -
Repertoire and Collective Social Memory: The Celebration of Uruguayan Culture and History During Carnaval
The Uruguayan Carnaval illustrates the use of repertoire form of memory and collective social memory due to the inclusion of both African and European cultures and the moments of suppression historically. Carnaval originated ... -
For What (?) Frida Kahlo's Worth
A queer, disabled, communist female has become a celebrity of pop culture, although not celebrated for the intersectionality of those things. Rather, she is honored as a woman but stripped by a capitalist society that ... -
Pioneers of Populism in the 20th Century and the Prevalence of Populist Leaders in the 21st Century
The organization of this paper is as follows. First, it will provide a review on the conceptualization of populism. Then, it will describe the emergence of populist pioneers, their ideologies, their political approaches ... -
Billboards for the Left: Leon Trotsky's Exile and Mexican Muralism
Leon Trotsky's exile in Mexico in the 1930s significantly changed the political voices of both David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera. His presence also influenced both artists to make changes to their artistic styles. [From ...