Tag: Latin America
Joel Roberts Poinsett: Namesake of the poinsettia, enslaver, secret agent and...
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University
If people know the name Joel Roberts Poinsett today, it is likely because of...
‘Across the Spider-Verse’ and the Latino legacy of Spider-Man
Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University
As a Latino literature and media scholar, a lifelong gamer and a Guatemalan-American...
5 elections to watch in 2023 – what’s at stake as...
Blessing-Miles Tendi, University of Oxford; Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University; Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University; Carl LeVan, American University, and Eduardo...
Stop using ‘Latinx’ if you really want to be inclusive
Melissa K. Ochoa, Saint Louis University
Most of the debates on the usage of “Latinx” – pronounced “la-teen-ex” –...
Poll reveals white Americans see an increase in discrimination against other...
Stella Rouse, University of Maryland and Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland
Despite largely holding the political, economic and social...
Maradona: why the English can’t let go of the Hand of...
Matthew Brown, University of Bristol
The death of the greatest player in the history of the game of Association Football, Diego Armando Maradona, on November...
Federal agents sent to Kenosha, but history shows militarized policing in...
Angélica Durán-Martínez, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The U.S. Justice Department has dispatched federal agents and U.S. marshals to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a police shooting left...
Marijuana fueled Colombian drug trade before cocaine was king
Lina Britto, Northwestern University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Long before Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel got rich supplying...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
