Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past by Yanna Yannakakis Yanna Yannakakis is Associate Professor in the Department of History. In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marriage, self-governance, land, and labor in colonial Mexico. She outlines […]
Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico by Rocío Zambrana Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. This book is a Spanish-language edition of Colonial Debts, which was also supported by the Digital Publishing in the Humanities progam. En Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico, Rocío Zambrana ofrece una robusta conversación con pensadorxs, creadorxs […]
Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires by Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of […]
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema by Mónica García Blizzard Mónica García Blizzard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting […]
Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico by Rocío Zambrana Rocío Zambrana is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. With the largest municipal debt in US history and a major hurricane that destroyed much of the archipelago’s infrastructure, Puerto Rico has emerged as a key site for the exploration of neoliberalism and disaster capitalism. In Colonial […]
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