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Chiapas, 2018: Aesthetics and Politics of Indigenous Autonomy
By T. J. Demos, Professor of History and Art and Visual Culture, Director of Center for Creative Ecologies ~ UC Santa Cruz How has Zapatismo—the militarized Indigenous Mayan formation based in the highlands of Chiapas—fared after more than a decade of self-declared autonomy? How has the movement survived a Mexican state witnessing growing devastations of…
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“If I Did Not Want to Come I Would Not Have Come:” Finding Resistance in the Archives
By Bristol Cave-LaCoste, Ph.D. Candidate in History and Designated Emphasis in Latin American & Latino Studies ~ UC Santa Cruz On June 30, 2018, tens of thousands of people across the United States gathered to protest the horrendous detention and separation of immigrant families, a practice accelerated under the Trump Administration. Over the previous weeks,…