Five articles with a diverse view of what it means to be from Latin America and Spain, on Fake Flamenco. Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month is September 15 – October 15. How will you celebrate; with food, music, a book, a film perhaps? I will celebrate by researching women playwrights from Latin America; a subject I realize […]
Read moreIlia Calderon’s Timely Autobiography
At a moment when awareness of racial injustice is heightened, Ilia Calderón’s memoir My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race has fascinating insights. An Afro-Latina herself, Calderón describes challenges people of African Ancestry face in Latin America and the United States. Ilia reports realizing as a child that the Colombians she saw who […]
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