Veterans of the anti-colonialist war against Spain (1863-1865) at a dinner organized by feminist educator Ercilia Pepín (third in the left row) in 1927. Source: revista Blanco y Negro. By Amaury Rodríguez Since the worldwide political upheavals of the 1960s, Caribbean and Latin American social scientists have expanded the production of people’s history or…
A Palestinian youth placed a flag on the Israeli Separation Wall during a protest marking nine years for the struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in, February 28, 2014. (Photo by Oren Ziv/GroundTruth) by Chandni Desai Plans for de jure annexation of Palestinian lands have emerged at a time when the world is battling against one of the…
Roosevelt Roads signage. Photo: Diana Ramos Gutiérrez By Diana Ramos Gutiérrez When arriving at the entrance of the former Roosevelt Roads naval station in the eastern Puerto Rican town of Ceiba, the…
Honolulu Chinatown Fire of 1900. Photo by Gabriel Bertram Bellinghausen, via wikicommons By Michael G. Vann As individuals around the world faced unprecedented government ordered lockdowns to flatten the curve of spread of COVID-19, many of us…
Pablo Delano, A Group of newly made Americans at Ponce, Porto Rico, (detail from the conceptual art installation The Museum of the Old Colony, 2016-ongoing). Source: Stereocard published by M. H. Zahner, Niagara Falls, New York, 1898. Photographer not identified. By R. Sánchez-Rivera Recently, a published, peer-reviewed article caused a great deal of controversy when it circulated among many academic Facebook pages such as Latinx…
Labadee, Production Photography, HD video, sound, 7 min 10 sec, 2017, Joiri Minaya Regarding cruise ships, the terrorism of tourism in the Caribbean, and the Western media’s summer 2019 discourse about “poisonings” at resorts in the Dominican Republic…
Noel Ignatiev, crica 1995. Image courtesy of Rachel Edwards. by Michael Staudenmaier Noel Ignatiev died on November 9, 2019, at the age of 78. As both a worker and a scholar, Ignatiev modeled the…
Military personnel with two protesters holding signs, Plaza Italia, Santiago, October 19, 2019. Photo by Romina A. Green Rioja. BY ROMINA A. GREEN RIOJA It has been a short time since the mass protests began in Chile, and it already feels as though the…