"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 ...

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 ...

Women have long been on the front lines of the battle to build a more just world. The Bartolina Sisa National Confederation ...

Latin America and the Caribbean Thematic Areas of Research: Borders and Borderlands, Comparative and Transnational, Economic History and Capitalism, Imperialism and Colonialism, Iberian Empires, ...

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 ...

Peru is home to one of the world’s most famous landmarks, Machu Picchu. The Sacred Valley offers an incredible mix of history ...

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 ...