{"title":"Sabine F. Cadeau. More than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands","authors":"Tess De Rios Los","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.06.br.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.06.br.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132831133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latinas’ Identity Exploration in STEM During COVID-19","authors":"Hilda Cecilia Contreras Aguirre","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.06.or.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.06.or.004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Latina students’ challenges as a minoritized group in Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM) programs call for a deeper understanding of their social and academic identities, which are crucial aspects in successfully navigating rigorous STEM programs. Through a qualitative approach, seven Latina college students were interviewed at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) during COVID-19, to gain insight into their experiences as they develop their social and academic identities. The findings of the study revealed three key factors influencing Latinas’ social and science identity formation: 1) culture and gender experiences prior to and during the pandemic; 2) the ongoing search for a science identity through female role models despite the inadequate representation of Latina STEM faculty; and 3) the participants’ self-advocacy to achieve academic success. Lastly, the continued challenges the students experienced related to the global pandemic, rigorous STEM academic programs, and the need for a coherent science identity were explored.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131282947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Johanna Bard Richlin, In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States","authors":"Karen Hooge Michalka","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.2023.06.br.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.2023.06.br.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131427779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Starosta Galante, On the Other Shore, the Atlantic Worlds of Italians in South America during the Great War.","authors":"Danielle Battisti","doi":"10.18085/2022.11.jollas.br.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/2022.11.jollas.br.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"85 1-4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114048335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Latinidad, Memory, and Literature","authors":"David A. Colón, Daniel Archer","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.11.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.11.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"On the day these words were written, the director of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Carissa Etienne, announced that \"Latin America has surpassed Europe and the United States in the daily number of reported Covid-19 infections,\" noting it \"has become the epicenter of the COVID pandemic\" (Darlington et al., 2020). The Los Angeles Times recently reported that \"Latinos comprise about 40% of California's population but 53% of positive cases\" of COVID-19, perhaps due to exposure risks endemic to Latinos providing high-contact essential labor, comprising 53% of food service workers, 59% of construction workers, and 85% of agricultural workers in California (Branson-Potts et al., 2020). [...]what is just as certain is that the nature of their memories will be altogether different in kind from the stories told by the World Health Organization or their governments' respective departments and ministries, and hence will have a different truth. Works such as José Vasconcelos's The Cosmic Race (1925), Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America (1971), José Luis Gonzalez's Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country (1980), and Gloria Anzaldúa's Bor der lands/La Frontera (1987) have explored a range of ideas on the topic of latinidad that have paved avenues of inquiry for modern scholars.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122739404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telling Images: Forced Disappearance and Territorial Displacement in Recent Mexican and Colombian Documentary Graphic Novels","authors":"Felipe Gómez","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.14","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Territorial displacements, stolen lands, repression, targeted assassinations, and forced disappearances among rural communities in Mexico and Colombia are constant threats that generate complex and urgent questions on the fragile conditions in which the residents of these communities live their day-to-day lives. In this article, I examine recent graphic novels that take an ethical stand to discuss local events in their connections to drug-trafficking, para-State, and other contemporary forms of violence. While there are divergent reasons, conditions and challenges for the creation, distribution, and reception of these graphic novels in such contexts, their authors use similar semiotic and literary mechanisms to imagine and represent these types of violence, and aim to include voices usually omitted, and/or displaced in the narration of these conflicts. I argue that it is precisely due to these inclusions that the role of these works in the politics of narrative and memory of armed conflicts in these Latin American countries is essential for the recognition of new human geographies and cartographies generated by the forced disappearance and uprooting of these communities using violence.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127233585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cholo u hombre: Representation and Revolution in the Senderista Theater of Víctor Zavala Cataño","authors":"Ryan Spangler","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.66","url":null,"abstract":"The development of campesino theater by the Peruvian playwright Víctor Zavala Cataño played a pivotal role in underscoring the intellectual and economic divide separating the upper class and the agrarian workers of the high Andean plateau regions of Peru. His theater, which sought to empower the previously dehumanized indigenous laborers from the regions surrounding Ayacucho, simultaneously incorporated the oppressed workers into his theatrical milieu and indoctrinate them into the incipient revolutionary Maoist uprising known as Sendero Luminoso. This essay highlights Zavala Cataño’s implementation and adaptation of Antonio Gramsci’s theories of cultural hegemony and Bertolt Brecht’s dialectal study of socialism and capitalism in his theater. Furthermore, it emphasizes the author’s endeavors to expand the theatrical mise-en-scène to include all of Peru and prepare the Andean campesino for a future role in Sendero’s struggle to overthrow Peruvian democracy.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115340759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the Narrative in Fe en Disfraz: Latin American Female Slave Stories from Violence to (Self)-Emancipation","authors":"J. McClanahan","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.78","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As with her previous novels, Mayra Santos-Febres explore the often-complex (inter)connections between men and women in Fe en disfraz (2009). In this novel, she takes her readers on a historical exploration into Latin America’s Colonial slave past, intertwining this history with the 21st century. The novel revolves around two Caribbean historians, who are living and working in Chicago, María Fernanda Verdejo, known as Fe, and Martín Tirado and serve as guides on this journey linking the present-day to the past. Through an entanglement of stories, relationships, and historical reflections, Santos-Febres creates a distinctive narrative which helps the reader on this literary expedition. As such, this article addresses how the author’s narrative style combined with reverberations of a bleak period in Latin American history come together to re-contextualize the violent female slave narratives in order to focus on their emancipation, and ultimately, to reveal how the central character vocalizes her own desire to be emancipated from these echoes of the past.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122808904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTRODUCCIÓN: El impacto de la violencia de la América Latina contemporánea en su literatura","authors":"D. Torre, M. A. Anderson","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.i","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126139355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violence and Hopelessness in the Colombian Novels La Virgen de Los Sicarios and Satanás","authors":"Alan G. Hartman","doi":"10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.48","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Colombia is a South American nation that has captured the imagination of the world. It is a land of beautiful colonial cities and towns, famous for coffee production, rich emerald mines, and the literature of José Asunción Silva and Gabriel García Márquez. Colombia’s beauty and rich literary history, however, are often overshadowed by the memory of Pablo Escobar, a notorious drug lord, and numerous deadly guerilla groups. Their roles in the international drug trade made Colombia the top producer and exporter of cocaine, which resulted in terrorism and violence that left the country one of the world’s most dangerous.1 In this article, I will explore how violence in Colombia has perpetuated the theme of hopelessness in the nation’s literature beginning in the mid-twentieth century. I will show this in three parts. Firstly, I will trace the history of violence in Colombia through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and show that a literary genre of violence was absent in the nation until 1946, when the period known as “la Violencia” commenced. Secondly, I will explore how hopelessness resulted from violence in Colombia beginning in the period of “la Violencia.” Thirdly, I will show how violence is depicted as an evil that traps the protagonists of the contemporary Colombian novels La Virgen de Los Sicarios and Satanás in a state of hopelessness due to their powerlessness to truly change themselves because of the frustrated society in which they live.","PeriodicalId":352494,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies","volume":"23 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123557723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}