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The Borders Of Dominicanidad—Interview With Lorgia Garcia Peña, Nelson Santana, Amaury Rodríguez
The Borders Of Dominicanidad—Interview With Lorgia Garcia Peña, Nelson Santana, Amaury Rodríguez
Publications and Research
Dr. Lorgia García Peña is associate professor of Latinx Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke, Fall 2016). Lorgia García Peña’s book delves deep into Dominican society and history by dissecting foundational myths and state-sponsored propaganda. Lorgia García Peña also looks at Dominican alternative cultural production and the socio-political resistance found in performance art and Afro-Dominican popular religions. In the most recent roundtable installment from the Ethnic Studies Rise initiative that celebrates the work and legacy of García Peña's scholarship, translator and scholar Kaiama Glover argued that [Lorgia …
Territories Of Contestation In Medellín: Destierro, Memory, The Youth, And The State, Joan C. Lopez
Territories Of Contestation In Medellín: Destierro, Memory, The Youth, And The State, Joan C. Lopez
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This thesis is partly a study of the social and political territories that are generated by the displaced as responses to the warfare tactic of el destierro (displacement); and it is also an exploration of how the state operates at the intersection between its imagined centers and its margins. This thesis attempts to look at the state from its imagined margins and to explore how displacement, the regulation of the movement of specific bodies within and across specifically defined regions of Colombia, has been a fundamental practice for, and not against, the formation of the Colombian “state” as we see …
Conflicto Y Guerra En El Siglo Bélico De Latinoamerica, Frank Jacob, Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
Conflicto Y Guerra En El Siglo Bélico De Latinoamerica, Frank Jacob, Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo
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Proceedings of a conference presentation at the meeting of Anthropologists and Historians at Panama City, Sept. 7-9, 2016
Language, Politics, And History: An Introductory Essay, José Del Valle
Language, Politics, And History: An Introductory Essay, José Del Valle
Publications and Research
This book chapter examines different articulations of language and history and introduces a new configuration that focuses on the political dimension of language.