INSIDE Saturday 4 July 2009

Much ado about respect

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Forget Open Veins of Latin America, Lars Schoultz offers a much more enlightening window upon the main obstacle to better US relations in Latin America Continue reading

Davi versus Goliath

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Davi Kopenawa Yanomami has a mission: to save his people from the ravages of mining and deforestation in the Amazon. He tells Georgina Jiménez why a world threatened by environmental vandalism must take note
Photo: ©Joëlle Hernández/CAFOD Continue reading

Chewing away a boom

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A fascinating history of chicle production sheds light on the fragility of extractive industries
in Latin America Continue reading

The walking wounded

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Studs Terkel’s classic account of the life of a migrant Mexican farm worker has been converted into a highly original comic format

 

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The phone booth on the corner

David Iaconangelo explains why he founded ZafraLit, a new blog featuring writing by contemporary Cuban authors translated into English Continue reading

The errors of the avant-garde

A study of photography helps us to understand how the prophets of Latin American modernism built ethics into their perspectives Continue reading

Hot titles in July

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Cuba mia: Retrato de una
orquesta de mujeres
Cecilia Domeyko
2002, PBS

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Gender and the Mexican
Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy
Stephanie J. Smith
2009, Univ of North Carolina Press

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Rage
Sergio Bizzio,
translated by Amanda Hopkinson
2009, Bitter Lemon Press

 

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Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity
in Colonial Latin America
Edited by Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O’Hara
2009, Duke University Press
 


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