Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty, by Ana-Maurine Lara (SUNY Press, Afro-Latinx Futures Series, 2020, 200 pages). “Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican…
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic, by Ana-Maurine Lara (Rutgers University Press, 2020, 258 pages). This book “is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic…
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published April 20, 2020 in Around the O. Lynn Stephen and Gabriela Martínez are CSWS Faculty Affiliates. “Rich and crazy” is how Sergio B. Sanchez describes the street art he observed growing up in…
NOTE: This talk will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21. Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium John Collins, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center Since the mid-1990s, John Collins has conducted ethnographic research on UNESCO world heritage…
Ernesto Martínez’s short film, La Serenata, is a finalist in the Imagen Foundation Short Film and Web Series Awards. You can support this film by voting below and inviting friends and family to vote as well (one vote per 24…
A teach-in and poetry slam on the UO campus CLLAS Teach-In: Language and Poetry as Resistance, October 9, 10am-11am, Knight Library Browsing Room CLLAS Latinx Heritage Month Poetry Slam by Melissa Lozada-Oliva, October 9, 4pm-5pm, 240C McKenzie Hall Melissa Lozada-Oliva is…
