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The Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies is a peer reviewed open access journal co-published by MACLAS and CRECE at Kean University.

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💡 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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❓ MARLAS Monday

If you could attend a lecture on any topic in Latin American studies this week, what would it be?

Let us know in the comments below.

#MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies #AcademicCommunity #Research #HigherEducation

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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

#MARLAS #CaribbeanStudies #MusicStudies

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Let's keep in touch! 🎉

Follow MARLAS for research, conversations, collections, and perspectives shaping Latin American Studies today. Share our page and help us grow our community.

#MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies #AcademicCommunity #Research #FollowUs

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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.

#MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies #Research #HigherEd

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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

#MARLAS #AI #LatinAmerica

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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

#Colombia #Peacebuilding #MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies

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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.

#MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies

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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

#MARLAS #Poetry #LatinAmericanStudies

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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.

#MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies #AcademicCommunity

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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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🎙️ Podcast Spotlight

Carlos Parada Ayala interviews Consuelo Hernández on poetry, rhythm, memory, and artistic expression.

Related to MARLAS Vol. 9, No. 2 (2025).

🎧 https://t.co/HnBm6R54jn

#MARLASJournal #Podcast #LatinAmericanStudies #Poetry #Diaspora #CentralAmerica

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❓ MARLAS Monday

What regions or countries in Latin America do you think are underrepresented in research?

Let us know in the comments below.

#MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies #AcademicJournal #Research #AcademicCommunity

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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

#MARLAS

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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

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❓ 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.

#MARLAS #LatinAmericanStudies #Research #Education

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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

#MARLAS #IndigenousRights #Exploitation

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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!

#MARLAS #AuthorSpotlight #LatinAmerica

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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

#LatinAmericanStudies #MARLAS