The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' Digital Archive showcases conversations with faculty and graduate researchers whose work explores the diverse histories, cultures, and societies of Latin America and the Caribbean. Featuring a collection of video interviews, presentations, and visual art, this archive offers an accessible window into current scholarship, regional perspectives, and emerging questions in the field. Viewers can explore topics ranging from political movements and social change to art, language, and identity across the Americas.

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Cineguazu Title page

We are pleased to share, CINEGUAZU, the comic-reportage winner of the 2025 Itaú Foundation Award of Cultural Journalism at the Roa Bastos Fest.

Script: Maria Esther Zaracho Robertti

Illustrations: Sofía Amarilla Heyn

Research: Adriana Ferreira

Click here to access the full comic.

 

Chasing the "Diamond": Ocean Memory, The Black Pacific & Slave Trade Routes to the Americas

    In 1759 the Diamond, a sloop that would trade ownership between the French and the British over the course of its life, sailed to unspecified ports in the Americas, Jamaica, Panama, Colombia and more unspecified destinations in what was then known as the Spanish Caribbean and embarked and disembarked human cargo as part of the slave trade. During this voyage, one member of its human cargo was lost and remains in a residence time presence in an unknown location. The Diamond serves as an entry point into a discussion of the movement of Africans and African-descended captives to the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea-bordered regions, the ocean memory of those human cargo lost to the voyages through the Americas and how that loss reverberates into the present.
     

     

    Suffer the Little Children: A Conversation with Anita Casavantes Bradford

    Anita Casavantes Bradford is Associate Professor in the UCI Department of Chicano/Latino Studies. In this conversation, she tells us about her forthcoming book, "Suffer the Little Children: Unaccompanied Child Migrants and the Geopolitics of Compassion in Postwar America," as well as writing and teaching in times of Covid-19.

     

    AConversation with Edward Telles on Latin American Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies.

    Edward Telles is a Distinguished Professor in the UCI Department of Sociology, and a leading figure in the study of race and ethnicity in Latin America and the United States, and also, on the immigrant experience across the Americas. Here he shares reflections on the relations between Latin American Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies, and he tells us about his teaching at UCI for 2021-2022