"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

Visiting the National Gallery of Art in Washington during Lent is always an enriching experience, but a recently acquired ...

Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America OPEN ACCESS 2020 Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean OPEN ACCESS 2019 Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the ...

Dana Leibsohn’s current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern ...

Social and Labor Fabrício Prado is associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary where he teaches classes on Colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World. Prado is the author of ...

AGENCY IN HISTORY: Historian Kristen Block (right) stands with Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin ...

Thanks to one of the largest and best-preserved colonial cores in Latin America, Ecuador's capital was named the very first UNESCO World Heritage site. The city's dramatic setting squeezed between ...