W&L Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program: Recent submissions
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Understanding a Modern-Day Migrant Crisis
The Venezuelan migrant crisis is one of the worst the world has ever seen. In order to understand the complex issue, the goal of this project is to provide a historical context of the country from a high-level view, and ... -
From Solemnity to Celebration: The Commercialization of the Day of the Dead (thesis)
As holidays have evolved over the past century many have changed from their original intention of celebrating military victories or certain individuals to focusing more on commercial practices that imitate a false sense ... -
Memory and Art: Remembering the Femicides
Femicide -- the targeted murders of women as a form of gender discrimination. Approximately 470 women murdered from 1994-2006 in Ciudad Juàrez, Mexico . . . Mexican government and police force has done little to nothing ... -
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 ... -
Remembering Women Lost: An Ongoing Fight for Remembrance of Juárez Femicide Victims
Femicide: murder of women specifically on account of their gender; Ciudad Juàrez, Mexico 1993 to 2005 -- more than 370 femicides; Highly likely that these numbers are underestimated due to government indifference and ... -
Pinochet and the Chicago Boys: Integrating Poverty into Chile's Human Rights Conversation (thesis)
From 1973 to 1990, Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile as a callous military dictator. During his reign, Pinochet's regime committed manifold human rights violations against innocent Chileans -- tens of thousands were unjustly ... -
Rethinking Baseball in the Dominican Republic
This paper examines how the sport of baseball mediates the relationship between the United States and Dominican Republic. In part based on Walter Mignolo's idea of “decolonial thinking,” which undoes the power structures ... -
Seeking Asylum in the United States: The Process Confronting Those Fleeing From Violence in the Northern Triangle
The purpose of this document is to describe the preliminary portion of the often complex process for seeking defensive asylum in the United States. This document considers “the preliminary portion” of the defensive asylum ... -
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. ... -
Catastrophic Colonialism
Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico and its people and sadly exposed the neo-colonial structures that remain in American society that represent a disconnect between the mainland and the Caribbean archipelago. Without the ... -
Silent Culprits: Immigrant Detention Centers
Many gaps exist within the law that allow it to be interpreted differently for immigrants. Although the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 is the foundational law for immigration, it has not served all equally. The ... -
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 ... -
Hizbollah in the Triple Frontier: How Political Discourse and National Identity Can Augment How We Understand Counterterrorism Efforts
This paper analyzes primary sources in the form of political discourse to demonstrate the link between discourse, national identity, and political action. I employ theoretical frameworks regarding national identity and ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
A Modernizing Midwife: Improving Outcomes While Preserving Tradition
. . . the first portion of the study will investigate if the characteristics of a midwife's education -- such as formal education, taking a midwifery course, or years of experience -- have a significant effect on producing ... -
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 ... -
Exporting U.S. Goods and Services in a Down Economy: Not Just Tilting at Windmills
It is time to recognize that there is a great deal of Latin American influence in the United States and as such, the business practices and needs of both regions overlap. By analyzing Latin American economies and cultures, ... -
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 ...