Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (LALVC) is focusing on “the future of the art of the past” in two special sections, the first of which was published in issue 3.3, and the second of which appears in the journal’s current issue 3.4. This two-part collection of essays shares res...
As we celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth, we’d like to take this opportunity to highlight our award-winning journal, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.
Editor-in-Chief Charlene Villaseñor Black was recently featured in a profile in the October issue of UCLA Magazine.
The c...
Edison phonograph and Gold Moulded records, from a 1909 advertisement
At the turn of the previous century, during the Porfiriato, Mexico lived through a time of technological revolutions that modified ways of perceiving time, distance, and sounds. Consider the phonograph, created by Th...
September 27th, 2021 marks the 200-year anniversary of the day Mexico achieved independence. In honor of the date, we reached out to Silvia Marina Arrom to discuss her new book, La Güera Rodríguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine.
María Ignacia Rodríguez de Vela...
Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos joins in the celebration and critical reflection of Mexico’s bicentennial of independence. Hence we are glad to announce the forthcoming Thematic Section “Bicentennial Mexican Independence: New Critical Insights” to be published in our 37.3 issue i...
This post is part of our AAA #RaisingOurVoices2020 event blog series. Check out our virtual exhibit page for more.
by Roberto J. González, author of Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network
Right now, many of us are reevaluating what it means to be conne...