Petro took Bolivar’s name in a scathing response to Trump’s threat of tariffs & sanctions in case Colombia did not accept ...

"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

Migration and Immigration in Latin America, and "Race" in Colonial Latin America. "A prominent writer from the U.S. south once commented that the past was not dead, nor was it really past. The same ...

Nicaragua's astonishing León Cathedral is a remarkable example of Spanish colonial architecture in Latin America. Let's take a tour. The beauty of Nicaragua’s León Cathedral, with its pure ...

Dana Leibsohn’s current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern ...

We know that we have a brutal colonial legacy, of violence and racism, of being looted by the United States, of dictatorships. For me, Latin America is a living being, it’s radical, extreme ...