💡 MARLAS Author Spotlight
Featuring: Maria Roof
A contributor to multiple MARLAS issues, Roof’s work has helped foster scholarly dialogue in Latin American studies.
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🔍 #ThrowbackThursday
This week, we’re highlighting “Music as Sound, Music as Archive”, which explores how tassa drumming, soca, and chutney-soca preserve history and identity in Trinidad.
Read more: https://t.co/OZr5Le6Khf
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❓ MARLAS Monday
What perspectives in Latin American studies have challenged the way you think about the region?
Let us know in the comments below.
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🔎 #ThrowbackThursday
As AI infrastructure rapidly expands across Latin America, this MARLAS commentary by Marina Malamud explores how the growth may reshape environmental politics across the region.
🔗https://t.co/5MML70lHfA
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⭐ Article Collection Spotlight: Peace & Transitional Justice in Colombia
Explore MARLAS scholarship on peacebuilding, truth commissions, reconciliation, and transitional justice in Colombia.
📚 https://t.co/nTJYMmGcYC
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❓ MARLAS Monday
What are you currently reading or researching in the field of Latin American studies?
Let us know in the comments below.
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🔎 #ThrowbackThursday
In this MARLAS interview, M. Cecilia Azar speaks with Ethel Barja Cuyutupa about migration, diaspora, violence against women, and why “Poetry is always a current event.”
🔗 https://t.co/wyzNUw6Ffe
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💡 MARLAS Author Spotlight: Miguel Angel Latouche
With three publications in MARLAS, his work has been featured in the Public Health & Caregiving Collection and recognized with the James Street Award.
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❓ MARLAS Monday
What first sparked your interest in Latin American studies? Was there a class, experience, person, or moment that inspired your journey?
Let us know in the comments below—we’d love to hear your story.
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🔎 #ThrowbackThursday
This MARLAS article by Jorge Camacho revisits Indigenous representation, race, and colonial restrictions on interracial unions in nineteenth-century Cuba.
🔗 https://t.co/mGOKtnKQyb
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🔎 #ThrowbackThursday
As protests and debates over democracy continue across Latin America, this MARLAS article by Stephen Zunes revisits how civil resistance helped end military rule in Bolivia through broad, nonviolent coalition-building.
🔗 https://t.co/ciwK1fIXkY
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⭐ Article Collection Spotlight: African Diaspora & Afro-Descendant Populations
Explore work on identity, race, and the experiences of Afro-descendant communities across the Americas.
Explore collection: https://t.co/4diHEEcIw2
#LatinAmerica#AfricanDiaspora#MARLAS#Caribbean
❓ Introducing MARLAS Monday
A weekly space for questions, conversation, and engagement in Latin American studies. To start: What topics in the field deserve more attention right now?
Let us know in the comments below.
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🔎 #ThrowbackThursday
This MARLAS essay by Matthew Ford examines Andrés Reséndez’s, The Other Slavery, exploring the historical roots of land exploitation and coerced Indigenous labor.
🔗 https://t.co/Uww7wY9BkD
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💡 MARLAS Author Spotlight
Featuring: Álvaro Antonio Bernal
Published across multiple issues, Bernal has contributed research articles, participated in Espacio Creación, and interviewed fellow authors.
More author spotlights coming soon!
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📚 Article Spotlight | MARLAS Vol. 9, Issue 2
Frances Jaeger reviews Barbara Dröscher’s Telenovelas (2025), exploring how Colombian telenovelas are evolving in the age of streaming 📺
Read more: https://t.co/Z6ghVn9d83
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