Creating an Archive of Central American Experiences in the D.M.V.: The Art of Veronica Melendez
By Claudia Milian and María DeGuzmán on February 13, 2019
This session features Salvadoran-Guatemalan-American photographer and illustrator Veronica Melendez, from Washington, D.C. Melendez has been featured in venues such as Remezcla, Mitu, and NPR’s Alt Latino for casting light on Central American artistic production in the D.C. metropolitan area––or, in shorthand,… Read More
LatinX Evacuations, TPS, and the Shithouse
By Claudia Milian on January 12, 2018
A photograph by artist R. Galvan prominently features a custom rubber stamp from 2017. The piece is titled “Administrative Care” and shows a hand about to continuously imprint this query: “Why did you come to the United States?” This is… Read More
The Unknowable: Archival Strategies for Another Way to Be
By Nancy Mirabal on March 22, 2017
Today was the day. On January 12, 2017, President Barack Obama ended former President Bill Clinton’s “wet foot, dry foot policy.” Enacted in 1995 in response to the wave of balseros leaving Cuba for the United States, Clinton’s wet foot,… Read More
“Podcasts from the South” are a series of conversations created and hosted by María DeGuzmán at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Claudia Milian at Duke University.
Creating an Archive of Central American Experiences in the D.M.V.: The Art of Veronica Melendez
By Claudia Milian and María DeGuzmán on February 13, 2019
This session features Salvadoran-Guatemalan-American photographer and illustrator Veronica Melendez, from Washington, D.C. Melendez has been featured in venues such as Remezcla, Mitu, and NPR’s Alt Latino for casting light on Central American artistic production in the D.C. metropolitan area––or, in shorthand,… Read More
The World Cup, Aimé Césaire, and Contested Nationalities
By Jennifer Wilks on July 17, 2018
As France prepared to face Croatia in the World Cup final, I couldn’t help wondering what poet Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) would have thought. Eighty-three years before teenage phenomenon Kylian Mbappé and his teammates blazed their way to their fateful encounter… Read More
The World Cup Is Coming. U.S. Won’t Be There. Mexico Will. Get Ready for a Mexican Flag Controversy.
By Russell Contreras on April 18, 2018
The World Cup in Russia is set to begin in June. Of course, the United States won’t be participating. Team U.S.A. failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1986. But Mexico will be there and… Read More
West New York, NJ: A Reflective Dossier of Scholarly Formation
By Ada Ferrer, Iveris Martinez and Claudia Milian on March 23, 2017
Three Latina scholars from the town of West New York, N.J. mull over their North Hudson (or “NoHu”) location where, according to the New York Times, “working class grit and Manhattan glitz meet.” West New York, in the borderlands between… Read More
In My Suegro’s Path: A 1951 Crónica
By John Mckiernan-Gonzalez on March 22, 2017
Imagine two people—son-in-law and father-in-law—sitting in a microvan. Both are surprised and chagrined to be living in Texas. And now we are going on an all-day medical field trip together. At age 82, my suegro, Solomon Cordova, Jr., relied on… Read More