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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University 2014clacsnyublog.com – 2016 CLACS at NYU 1 Contents 2 Director’s Note Director’s Note 3 50 Years of CLACS Saludos, he stressed, a mere sentiment of sympathy 4 Research In 2014, CLACS or special interest in the lives of others. 8 Events & Outreach was awarded a Rather, it is a concerted practice “to be Title VI National sensitive to the worlds of others, to permit Indigenous & Diasporic Language Consortium 12 Resource Grant and one’s own world to be influenced by 14 Publications: NACLA & LAND a Foreign Language others, and to affect others in determinate 15 Museum Studies & K-12 Outreach and Area Studies and deliberate ways” (36). Empathy is, in 16 Faculty Publications grant. These awards other words, a foundational methodology affirm CLACS’s contributions to area for area studies. 18 When Rights Ring Hollow studies and language training and its Through our strong orientation to 19 In Memoriam: Juan Flores longstanding commitment to public engaged scholarship, our work at CLACS 20 MA at CLACS outreach and scholarship. This issue has been guided by this same conviction. of Nexo documents key projects and In 2016 we hosted a historic meeting of all nexo accomplishments of the first two years of the key social actors of the 1991 peace of this four year grant. We are especially process in El Salvador to reflect together Nexo embodies the Center’s mission to proud of the introduction of Haitian on why and how peace prevailed. Bringing serve as a nexus, a network of people and information, a meeting place where Kreyòl training as part of a newly formed together former military, guerrilla, knowledge and understanding are created Indigenous and Diasporic Language government, and diplomatic members, and exchanged. Consortium between NYU, Columbia our goal went beyond a historical interest Cover image by Anthony Louis-Jeune (a.k.a. University, and Lehman College. in El Salvador’s difficult past. The public Aton), a Haitian visual artist and creator Because 2016 marks the 50th conversation between former combatants of the first Haitian comic-book super hero, anniversary of CLACS’s founding, I and adversaries offered insight into the Djatawo. The cover depicts Djatawo, whose have been reading the work of CLACS’s work of empathy now as much as then in stories have been published in Haitian Creole, French and English. Aton presented founder, the formidable Kalman Silvert, the ongoing process of peace. his artwork at CLACS in Fall 2015. a field-building, engaged scholar of In this same spirit, we invite you to enormous influence both in and beyond join CLACS in the years to come — as a the academy. One passage in his Man’s student, scholar, or interested public. Our nexo Staff Power (1970) caught my attention. In it, doors are open. Omar Dauhajre (Assistant Director), Silvert proposes two elements necessary Belem Destefani (Program Administrator), to intellectual work in area studies: Jill Lane, Isabelle Hazel (Administrative Aide). competence and empathy. Empathy is not, Director at CLACS Michael Cary, Arlean Dawes, Brendan Fields, Vladimir Penaloza, Gretchen Shaheen (Graduate Associates), Christopher Looft, Laura Weiss (Contributors). Bon Voyage, Amalia With pride, and some sadness, we bid strength to our farewell this summer to our Assistant programming. She Connect with CLACS Director Amalia Córdova. Amalia will be fostered community transitioning to a great career as Curator and institutional clacs.as.nyu.edu of Latino Digital Media at the Smithsonian. relations, and brought clacsnyublog.com facebook.com/CLACS.NYU Over the last three years, her work has a comprehensive facebook.com/QuechuaatNYU significantly impacted the scope of CLACS’ focus on the affairs of vision and she has inspired many students indigenous people in 53 Washington Square South, 4W with her mentorship. our continent. Amalia New York, NY 10012 As a film scholar and one of the foremost will be greatly missed, and her legacy and P: 212-998-8686 F: 212-995-4163 authorities on indigenous cinema in the contributions to CLACS will remain. We E: [email protected] country, her vision and advocacy gave wish you all the best!

2 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu 50 Years of CLACS In 2016-17, CLACS celebrates 50 years since to promote sound understandings of Latin its founding. I have been thinking about American societies were sorely challenged the legacy of Kalman Silvert, the founding by increased US military intervention director of CLACS and a towering presence and rising authoritarianism in the region. in the formation of Latin American Studies. Silvert was especially incensed by the 1965 Silvert spent the last years of his life in counterinsurgency “Project Camelot” based New York City, working simultaneously as at American University and funded by the US professor of politics at NYU and as senior Army, which aimed to conduct a large scale program adviser to the office of Latin America study of Latin American “revolutionary” and the Caribbean at the Ford Foundation. behaviors with the aim of learning how best Kalman Silvert Just as we do, Silvert prized the opportunity to eradicate them. The Project’s first study to undertake area studies in the “purposeful of Chile ended prematurely with Chilean neighbors. [...] the nations of the region are not disorder” of New York City, marked by “the accusations of American duplicity and homogenous. [...] They are not, and need not serendipitous emergence of varied ways of espionage. His 1965 “American Academic be, replicas of our country, nor do they require looking at the world.” Kalman Silvert died Ethics and Social Research Abroad” our tutelage.” unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1976, at age excoriated both the participating scholars Today we are beneficiaries of Silvert’s 55. of Project Camelot and the US academy for abiding vision for the field, and of the former The picture that emerges from “ethical incomprehension, cavalier attitudes, directors who have built on that legacy. remembrances is a gregarious, erudite and tolerance of ignorance”; the essay remains CLACS continues as a Title VI National man with passion for building intellectual a powerful manifesto for Latin American Resource Center and is a recipient of a institutions and fields; a man of strong Studies at the crossroads of politics and the Foreign Language and Area Studies grant, integrity devoted to the larger cause academy. now funded under the Higher Education of democracy; a man of loyalties and The lessons of Camelot guided Silvert’s Act of 1965. Activist scholarship is a core commitment who spent his final years—as work in New York. He was founding principle and guides our graduate program one eulogist writes—“running a one-man Director of NYU’s Ibero-American Language curriculum and the extensive programs we rescue service for persecuted intellectuals from and Area Center (IALAC, later CLACS) sponsor every year, including conferences, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and elsewhere … funded by Title VI of the National Defense lectures, roundtables, film screenings, keeping open house… for stray academics Education Act (NDEA), and directed a artist talks, workshops and more. Students from any land who yearned for a respite of corresponding graduate program. Also in have realized that principle in their own amistad and asylum.” His impact on the field 1966 Silvert became founding director of the engaged scholarship during and beyond the was formidable, and our work here at NYU is Latin American Studies Association (LASA), program—from creating the first US based stamped by his vision. an organization that, 50 years later, boasts Quechua language radio and TV station, or Silvert championed activist scholarship— more than 12,000 members from across the creating the Latin American News Dispatch, one that lent the most careful, rigorous hemisphere. He influenced policy makers, a much-needed online English language social science methods to an abiding desire university administrators, and broader news source. The CLACS MA program is to “repair the world.” He named himself an publics through his work on the Council of centered around student-designed field engaged scholar: “By ‘engaged’ I mean that Foreign Relations, the Social Science Research research, which we believe—like Professor I am personally concerned about the course Council, the American Council on Learned Silvert before us—is a necessary complement of social events; by ‘scholar’ I mean that I Societies, and the Center for Inter-American to the theoretical and methodological tools attempt not only to use objective procedures, Relations. Through the latter he participated honed in graduate education. From its but also to take care that the specific questions in the Linowitz Commission, whose 1974 beginnings in 1966, CLACS has grown to I ask are theoretically determined and not the report had significant impact in policy circles, include over 100 affiliated faculty members fruit of passion.” Through his long association including within the Carter Administration. from across the university who represent with the Ford Foundation, Silvert worked to The report concluded with recommendations NYU’s strong presence in the national and strengthen social science institutions across whose wisdom is no less relevant today: international field. We hope our current work Latin America and build Latin American “The approach we suggest is based on the and accomplishments would make Dr. Silvert Studies as a discipline in the US and proposition that the United States cannot proud. Europe. As the Cold War set in, his efforts neglect, exploit, or patronize its hemispheric -Jill Lane

clacsnyublog.com CLACS at NYU 3 Research from Nicaragua to Colombia With support from the Title VI NRC program and the Tinker Foundation, CLACS awards annual summer research and language study grants to affiliated faculty and graduate students investigating issues related to the region. In the follow- ing pages, researchers reflect on their work.

Local Innovation in a Global Market: Chocolate and High Quality Development in the Dominican Republic

Gustavo Setrini is an Assistant Professor in the Food Studies department at NYU.

Chocolate, coffee, and tea are daily reminders of the colonial histories that link the Global South and North. Trade in these tropical commodities remains an important source of export earnings for former colonies and of livelihoods for smallholder farmers. Universal consumer demand for these products in the US and Europe also makes these products a key focus of the food industry. In recent years, the notions of quality that inform consumer choice have shifted as the industrial food system has come under increasing critique. For a product like chocolate, this has meant the growth of companies specializing in single- Solar drying of Cacao in the Dominican Republic Photo credit: Rebecca Taylor-Roseman origin, environmentally and socially studies, and I spent three weeks in the the Dominican Republic is a leading responsible, and fine-flavor chocolates. Dominican Republic to investigate this supplier of high-quality, certified-organic Consumer interest in these products has question. We conducted interviews with and Fairtrade cacao. opened up new dimensions of quality- representatives of government agencies, How did this change happen? Among based competition among the giants of cacao exporters, and cacao farmers, and the key agents of this upgrading were the chocolate industry. But what does we toured cacao processing and chocolate the same domestic, family-owned export this mean for exporting countries and for manufacturing facilities. companies that, for generations, had cacao farmers? Under what circumstances Until the late 1990s, the Dominican presided over low-quality, low-cost, and can exporting countries take advantage of Republic had a reputation for low-quality low-investment industry. Foreign buyers these shifts? cacao and its exports were penalized with played at most a supporting role, and With support from CLACS, Rebecca low prices in international markets. Today, efforts by powerful companies, such as Taylor-Roseman, an MA student in food

4 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu Hershey, to improve quality in the 1980s Class and Color Blindness as well as the way it is discussed by had failed. Yet, in the course of the last in Mexican Consumer marketers in Mexico. decades, traditional Dominican exporters Segmentation Class status is a key factor shaping have become agents of innovation everyday life in Mexico. As one marketer and progress. One such exporter has Marcel Rosa-Salas is a doctoral candidate in stated, “Mexico has world class billionaires “decommodified” its cacao by developing Sociocultural Anthropology at NYU. and world class poor people.” Strategies for proprietary fermentation recipes that creating advertising campaigns are largely customize its supply to the specific flavor With support from a CLACS grant, in based on the price point of what is being attributes most valued by individual the summer of 2015 I undertook research sold. One advertising executive explained clients. on consumer segmentation and its relation how access to credit impacts Mexican The driving force for this transformation to race in Mexico. The Mexican market’s versus American marketing practices. was collective action among small-scale approach to consumer segmentation is Unlike poor Americans, poor Mexicans cacao farmers. The creation of a small organized around niveles socioeconomicos, generally do not have access to credit cards farmer cooperative, the Confederación or official “socio-economic levels,” that and loans and therefore do not have the Nacional de Cacaocultores Dominicanos give a letter grade to the different strata chance to consume goods outside their (National Confederation of Dominican of classes. Whereas most consumer income bracket. Only recently have some Cacao Producers—CONACADO), with segmentation models in the United States larger department stores begun to provide assistance from the Deutsche Gesellschaft rely explicitly include conceptions of extended layaway plans to low income für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German race, several global ad agencies use class consumers. Agency for Technical Cooperation—GTZ), status instead. What distinguishes class- What I remain most interested in from allowed small farmers to invest in the based consumer segmentation in Mexico my research was what went unsaid by infrastructure and management capacities is the particular social, cultural, economic the marketers, especially as it related to necessary to ferment and export high- and political dynamics that maintain a my original interest, race and ethnicity in quality cacao beans. These capacities staunch commitment to color-blindness. consumer segmentation. When I asked allowed the cooperative to connect on This commitment impacts how this my interlocutors about the relationship preferential terms with a growing set of socioeconomic stratification is understood between race and class in Mexico, I was foreign buyers seeking high-quality cacao, and to pay higher prices to its members for raw cacao. As CONACADO began to compete for suppliers and clients with traditional exporters, it spurred a process of nationwide quality upgrading through the dissemination of improved fermentation practices, transforming the Dominican Republic into a premium quality exporter. The higher export value of Dominican cacao, when combined with increased internal competition for smallholder cacao suppliers, has made Dominican cacao farmers among the best paid in the industry. In the end, the story of quality upgrading in the Dominican Republic reinforces the conclusions I have drawn from other research on agriculture and development in Latin America: that local institutions, specifically small farmer organizations, play a pivotal role in bringing about local development, even as food systems become progressively global in scale. Michael López Murillo, Redireccionando, digital edit of milk cartons, 2013 Source: http://www.mexicoalterno.com/site/dc/tma/579#Vz8wnZMrJQN

clacsnyublog.com CLACS at NYU 5 consistently met with replies that race or did these advertisements match the panoply intensity of the conflict between guerrillas, ethnicity does not figure prominently as an of skin tones and ethnic markers I saw while the government, and paramilitary groups. identity category in the country. As argued walking down Mexico City’s streets. Activists, scholars and a wide number of by Christina Sue in Land of the Cosmic Race, state bureaucrats agree on the fact that contemporary race politics in Mexico have Occupy Macondo: Colombia’s history of war is directly related been in large part been shaped by a post- Interpretations of Land to Colombia’s history of dispossession. Revolution national ideology that “exalt[s] Reform in Caribbean And they are hopeful that solving the land Mexico’s mestizo (mixed-race) population, Colombia question will end a long history of violence declare[s] Mexico free from racism, and in the country. erase[s] blackness from the image of Camila Osorio is a CLACS alumna currently With the support of CLACS, I traveled the Mexican nation” (2). It is especially working as a journalist in New York City. in 2015 to two areas of Caribbean Colombia telling that Mexico’s national statistics to analyze how three social actors interpret organization, the INEGI (an important Colombia is said to be near the end of this critical juncture: displaced peasants, data source for consumer research), does a 50-year armed conflict. The country’s bureaucrats, and landowners. After 53 not collect data on race and ethnicity. By government negotiated in a peace interviews and ethnographic work, it was contrast, multicultural marketing exists agreement with the Revolutionary Armed clear the Land Restitution Law was received in the United States because race and Forces of Colombia (FARC), the oldest left with skepticism. Cattle ranchers complain ethnic categorizations figure much more wing guerrilla group in the country. The first that the Law is affecting their economic explicitly in how people self identify and accord of this peace negotiation promises a interests, but not as much as the international are identified by governmental institutions land reform once the guerrillas demobilize. banana conglomerates that financed like the census. Prior to this negotiation, the Government paramilitary groups. They wonder if, as a The advertisements I saw near my passed new legislation in 2012, a Land local elite, they are being treated unfairly apartment and plastered throughout metro Restitution Law, which allows displaced in comparison to national and international demonstrated these differences. I saw almost peasants to reclaim their lost land. The elites. National business elites, on the other exclusively white, light, or fair skinned country has 6.4 million internal refugees, hand, try to impose their own definition of models in ads, and virtually no dark skinned most of them displaced peasant families that who constitutes a real campesino. “There or indigenous looking models. In no way abandoned their homes and crops given the were not real campesinos in the region,” was

A campesino walks on contested land in the Caribbean Colombia.

6 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu a typical response I got. They either call peasants “guerrilla fighters” or they refuse to recognize a middle class peasant as a “legitimate” campesino. They do not oppose the land restitution publicly, but believe that it should be understood as a process in which campesinos become businessmen. The peasant movements, on the other hand, are also defending their interpretation of what it means to be a campesino. For them, the definition is linked to their modes of production. “A peasant is measured by his form of production, so we need to keep our roots, our native seeds,” said one. They do not see the Land Restitution process as Harvested jellyfish bagged at the beach and ready for processing promoting traditional seeds (like yam or Photo credit: Indi Samarajiva plantain); instead they associate the reform built facilities that were used to exploit while also revealing failures in their current with unsustainable modes of production the ocean stock of cannonball jellyfish, political system. This insight became the (like the cultivation of teak or bananas). a sea creature until then unknown and basis of my Fall 2015 MA thesis project, Some peasants do not believe that the state now priceless. Destroyed by Hurricane entitled “They Come Looking on Our will defend their economic interests, so they Felix in 2007 and rebuilt by Chinese Side: Indigenous Autonomy and Chinese have begun to occupy land without state entrepreneurs in 2009, this area continues Investment Among Miskito People of support. The bureaucrats behind the law, on to be used for purchasing, processing, Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast.” the other hand, are equally divided: some and packaging cannonball jellyfish which My thesis discusses the limits of believe land restitution requires a holistic are then shipped to Asian markets. The indigenous autonomy in the context of approach, but others believe the process exploitation of jellyfish in Nicaragua has the arrival of foreign investment and the should restrict itself to giving back the land intensified, from 451 pounds harvested in establishment of a new model of a “neo- without promoting a particular form of 2007 to 28,476 pounds in 2014. In addition enclave economy” in the Nicaraguan production. to the Chinese management, the process state. For the Miskito people, the arrival All of this is happening despite the fact relies on local labor, thereby inserting the of the jellyfish market has shaped their that President Juan Manuel Santos has said Miskito people in a global production participation in the global food market as the economic model is not under discussion chain. caterers to Chinese demand. In analyzing during the peace negotiations, and the In the summer of 2015, I was awarded the process of negotiation with foreign Law is not supposed to be promoting any a FLAS fellowship to learn the Miskito entrepreneurs, my MA project explains the particular form of production. How this language through the University of weaknesses of indigenous autonomy in debate continues will depend on whether Kansas summer course “Language and protecting local resources and the region’s Colombia solves once and for all the land Culture in Nicaragua.” In addition to inhabitants. I argue that the regime of question that has caused 50–years of language study, I spent time learning Indigenous Autonomy in Nicaragua — violence. about the Miskito and Kriol peoples of which emerged as the outcome of long- the Autonomous Regions of the Atlantic, term territorial struggles by indigenous Chinese Investment in Miskito and about the non-indigenous Nicaraguan people on the Atlantic coast, as well as Communities in Nicaragua people. As a student from Bolivia with an difficult negotiations with the Sandinista indigenous background, this experience revolutionary government in the 1980s Raul Rodriguez Arancibia is a CLACS alumnus and a PhD student in Anthropology gave me the opportunity to share and listen — today offers what I call “apparent at Rutgers. to the experiences of fellow indigenous autonomy.” This is illustrated by the peoples. Over the course of these months, limited protection provided to indigenous In 2005, a group of Mexican entrepreneurs I came to understand how a Chinese-run communities in the current relationship arrived in the indigenous village of factory, which buys and packages seasonal with the multinational Chinese firm Tuapí, a small Miskito community in the maritime resources, reshapes everyday life involved in the jellyfish factories and Atlantic region of Nicaragua. There they for one segment of the Miskito population, markets.

clacsnyublog.com CLACS at NYU 7 Events and Outreach As part of its outreach strategy, CLACS hosts extensive public programming, from film screenings to academic lectures, teach-ins to multi-day conferences.

co-sponsored with the Consulate General of Brazil and with Columbia University’s Institute for Latin American Studies and Center for Brazilian Studies: “Quilombo do Presente” (held at Columbia) and “Quilombo do Futuro” (held at NYU). The series brought Brazilian scholars and musicians together to discuss the political, territorial, social, and cultural issues surrounding contemporary quilombo communities. Quilombo do Futuro is the name of a 2012 album by the US-born and Brazil- based musician and DJ/producer Maga Bo. The innovative Quilombo do Futuro “offers a careful juxtaposition of raw, heavy bass with organic, instrumental and vocal

Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera and Consul General Jessica Jordan subtlety,” says the producer PostWorld Industries; in the album, “coco, maculelê, is author of numerous books, including Álvaro García Linera, Vice , jongo and capoeira meet Identidad boliviana: nación, mestizaje y President of the Plurinational and dub, and , and plurinacionalidad (Bolivian Identity: State of Bolivia Visits CLACS dubstep.” At CLACS, Maga Bo performed Nation, Mestizaje, and Plurinationality, December 2014 with one of the guest vocalists on the 2014), Plebeian Power: Collective Action album, BNegão, leader of the hip hop band and Indigenous, Working-Class and Popular In the fall of 2014, CLACS hosted BNegão & Seletores de Frequência and Identities in Bolivia (2014), and Geopolítica Álvaro García Linera, vice president of 2004 winner of the Prêmio Orilaxé for best de la Amazonía: poder hacendal-patrimonial y the Plurinational State of Bolivia, for black music singer in Brazil. acumulación capitalista (Geopolitics of the a presentation on “Building Bolivia’s Guest speaker Mariléa Andrade Amazon: Landed-Hereditary Power and Political Progress Over 10 Years,” followed positioned the artists’ work in a wider Capitalist Accumulation, 2012). by discussion with Jorge Castañeda, Global social context by addressing some of the Vice President Linera discussed, Distinguished Professor at NYU and former contemporary challenges and success of 111 among other topics, the “indianization” Foreign Minister of Mexico. The event was the quilombo movement in present-day of the Bolivian State and the territorial graciously co-sponsored by the Bolivian Brazil. Since the 1988 constitution, which redistribution of power since the election of Consul General in New York, Jessica Jordan guaranteed permanent, non-transferable Evo Morales. Burton. land titles to Brazilians descended from García Linera has been vice president the members of runaway slave settlements, to Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous Quilombo do Futuro: The those descendants have organized to president, since 2006. A mathematician and Contemporary Social and demand compliance with the law, which sociologist, Garcia Linera emerged as one Cultural Resonance of Brazil’s the state has only rarely and reluctantly of Bolivia’s leading intellectuals in the late Maroon Communities enforced. 1990s after spending five years in prison for April 2015 An afterparty was held at world music his leadership role in the Ejercito Guerrillero club Nublu, with Maga Bo and BNegão in a Brazilian runaway slave communities, Tupac Katari (Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army- hybrid live set as well as DJ sets from Myk known as quilombos, were the subject of EGTK), which rejected Che Guevara’s foco 2Melo (Cumba Mela), the Tropicalismo DJs theory in favor of mass insurrection. He a two-day series at NYU and Columbia,

8 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu Juanderful (Philly) and Gregzinho (NY), a massive anti- conspiracy and intellectual, revolutionary, and theorist. In and DJ Shabakano (Digital Guaracha). rebellion in colonial Cuba in 1811–1812. addition to this scholarly interest, Aponte For analysis of the Brazilian quilombo Aponte was also the creator of an unusual has also been re-enshrined as a national movement we recommend the two-part work of art—a “book of paintings” full of figure in contemporary Cuba, following a series written by CLACS alumnus and historical and mythical figures, including 2012 bicentennial that commemorated his Huffington Post national reporter Roque black kings, emperors, priests, and death at the hands of colonial authorities. Planas: “Brazil’s ‘Quilombo’ Movement soldiers that he showed to and discussed Organized by Professor Ada Ferrer and May Be The World’s Largest Slavery with fellow conspirators. Aponte’s vision Faculty Fellow Linda Rodriguez, the two- Reparations Program,” and “Afro- of black history connected a diasporic day symposium “José Antonio Aponte Brazilians Demand Slavery Reparations and transatlantic past to the possibility and His World: Writing, Painting, and Because ‘Poverty Has A Color,’” both from of imagining a sovereign future for free Making Freedom in the ” July and August, 2014. and enslaved people of color in colonial brought together leading scholars for Cuba. Although the “book of paintings” is an interdisciplinary dialogue on the José Antonio Aponte And His believed to be lost, colonial Spanish officials current state of “Apontian” studies and to World: Writing, Painting, and interrogated Aponte about its contents after suggest future directions for collaborative Making Freedom in the arresting him for organizing the rebellions, scholarship. Participants included Sibylle African Diaspora and Aponte’s sometimes elaborate, always Fischer (NYU CLACS/Spanish), Jorge May 2015 elusive, descriptions of the book’s pages Pavez Ojeda (U Alberto Hurtado, Chile, survive in the textual archival record. Sociology), Stephan Palmié (U Chicago, Over the past fifteen years, scholars have From myriad locations in the humanities, Anthropology), Matt Childs (U South shown a renewed interest in the political historians, anthropologists, philosophers, Carolina, History), Jean-Frédéric Schaub and historical legacy of José Antonio literary scholars, and art historians have (Ecole des hautes études en sciences Aponte (?–1812), a free man of color, explored the figure of Aponte as artist, sociales, France), Greg Childs (Brandeis, carpenter, artist, and alleged leader of BY THE ENGAGEMENT NUMBERS Events From: People 1112014-2016 4,300+Attended

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clacsnyublog.com CLACS at NYU 9 President Armando Calderón Sol, Ambassador Rubén Zamora, CLACS Professor Jorge Castañeda, Minister Hugo Martínez, and Ambassador Álvaro de Soto responding to questions

Leading scholars in the field were invited to share their answers and reflections to these and related questions. Piero Gleijeses, professor of US foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University, gave the keynote lecture on “Visions of Freedom: Castro’s Foreign Policy.” Professor Christabelle Peters, who is currently Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, and the Angolan author and historian Adriano Mixinge spoke on “Angolan Identity and the Cuban Experience.” Another panel explored “Music and Cultural Exchange During the Cuban Intervention in ,” with the participation of Cuban musician, producer, and radio host Tony

Dominique Serres, The Capture of Havana, 1762: Taking the Town, (oil on canvas) Pinelli, who went to Angola early in the Cuban military campaign as a member of From War to Politics: History), Michael Gómez (NYU, History), military campaign in another region, the artistic brigades, playing for the Cuban Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (University of Chicago, and to do so successfully. Organized by and Angolan soldiers and civilians along Romance Languages), Carmen Ramos doctoral candidate Rafael Cesar, the day- with musicians like Silvio Rodríguez (Smithsonian American Art Museum), Tom long symposium “CubAngola40” used and Grupo Manguaré. In addition Ned Cummins (Harvard, Art and Architecture), the occasion of the 40 year anniversary Sublette, author of Cuba and Its Music: Ivor Miller (U Calabar, Nigeria, History), of Operation Carlota to analyze the From the First Drums to the Mambo Ana Lucía Araujo (Howard U, History), significance and legacies of this Cuban- (Chicago Review Press, 2004), shared his Jasmine Nichole Cobb (Northwestern, African war. What is the legacy of the experiences researching and recording the Communications), and David Sartorius (U war’s south-south internationalism? What documentary “The Cuban Intervention Maryland, History). impact has it left on racial politics in the in Angola.” The final keynote on “Soft The symposium engaged historical African diaspora? How did the Bantu- Power in the African Diaspora: The Case memory, the intellectual history of the based cultures shared by both Cubans and of Cuba and Angola,” was delivered by enslaved, and the relationship between text, Angolans since the beginning of the slave Linda Heywood, professor of History and image, and politics in other settings in order trade shape the culture and practices of of African Diaspora and African Studies at to put Aponte’s history in conversation black solidarity during and after the war? Boston University. with a wider world, much, indeed, as his own “book of paintings” tried to do.

CubAngola40: Rethinking the 1975 African-Cuban War November 2015

In November of 1975, the Cuban government launched Operation Carlota, a large-scale military intervention in Angola on the eve of Angola’s independence from Portugal. The Cuban military victory over US-supported South African troops was an explosive chapter of both the Cold War and of African decolonization and was unprecedented in the era of third world solidarities: Cuba was the only third world country to mount a major

10 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu President Armando Calderón Sol, Ambassador Rubén Zamora, CLACS Professor Jorge Castañeda, Minister Hugo Martínez, and Ambassador Álvaro de Soto responding to questions

An InternationalFrom Conference War on to El Salvador’s Politics: Peace Process Held in April 2016, “From War to Politics: An International Conference Assistance Group involved in directing the counter-insurgency war, on El Salvador’s Peace Process” was a three-day conference that and their counterparts in the Salvadoran Armed Forces (ESAF); brought together major participants in the peace process that ended human rights activists; and representatives, policymakers, and El Salvador’s 13-year brutal civil war (1979–1992). The peace process members of the US diplomatic corps from the Reagan, George H. W. was a remarkable achievement that enabled El Salvador to transition Bush, and Clinton administrations. to peaceful civilian rule. “From War to Politics” sought to reflect on In a series of roundtable discussions, participants were asked the circumstances that allowed the peace process to be successful to dialogue on these key questions: How did changing Cold War and on the legacies of that process today. dynamics shape the prospects for peace? Why was the UN able to An exceptional range of actors participated, including leaders of play such a decisive role? How did battleground dynamics influence ARENA and the Government of El Salvador during the 1980s and negotiating strategies? How did external actors—from the region, beyond; former members of the FMLN leadership; the UN officials from the United States—shape the peace? Who or what “won” this who brokered the accords; former members of the U.S. Military war—and is that question still relevant?

Participants: Salvador, presenting a message by President of Thomas R. Pickering, former US under Ambassador Álvaro de Soto, former UN under- El Salvador Sánchez Cerén secretary of state for political affairs (1997– secretary–general for political affairs Joaquín Chávez, assistant professor, University 2000), former ambassador to the UN (1989– President Armando Calderón Sol, former of Illinois at Chicago 1992); former ambassador to El Salvador (1983– president of El Salvador, founder of ARENA Jorge Castañeda, former foreign minister of 1985) Cynthia J. Arnson, director, Latin America Mexico and professor, NYU William M. LeoGrande, associate vice Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center Luis Parada, officer in the Salvadoran army; provost for academic affairs and professor of for Scholars; foreign policy aide in the House of former military attaché of the Embassy of El government, American University Representatives during the Carter and Reagan Salvador in Washington, DC administrations Manuel Hinds, former finance minister of El Organizers: Facundo Guardado, former FMLN commander Salvador, 1979–1980, 1995–1999. Van Gosse, professor of history, Franklin & (Fuerzas Populares de Liberación) Mirna A. Perla Jiménez, executive director Marshall College Ambassador Francesc Vendrell, former UN of the Commission for the Defense of Human Héctor Lindo Fuentes, professor of history and secretary-–general’s deputy representative Rights in Central America; president of the Latin American studies, Fordham in the Nicaragua peace negotiations, in the El Association of Memory and Member of the George Vickers, Co-Chair, Columbia Seminar Salvador peace process, and deputy personal Human Rights Collective Herbert Anaya on Latin America representative for the Central American Peace Ambassador Peter F. Romero, former Barbara Weinstein, Silver Professor of history, Process assistant secretary of state; former head of the NYU Francisco R. R. de Sola, President, Homarca US mission in El Salvador (1991–1993) Jill Lane, director, CLACS NYU S.A. and former president of the Salvadoran Ambassador Rubén I. Zamora, ambassador José Moya, director, Institute of Latin American Foundation of Economic and Social and permanent representative of El Salvador to Studies (ILAS), Columbia Development the United Nations; founder and vice-president Martiza Colón, executive director, ILAS General Mark Hamilton, former commander of of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR) Columbia US MILGROUP in El Salvador; former president Salvador Samayoa, former minister of Omar A. Dauhajre, outreach administrator, of the University of Alaska system education (1979), former member of the FMLN’s CLACS NYU Hugo Martínez, minister of foreign affairs of El Political-Diplomatic Commission

clacsnyublog.com CLACS at NYU 11 Indigenous & Diasporic Languages The Indigenous & Diasporic Language Consortium is a partnership between Columbia University, New York University, and Lehman College designed to promote the teaching, learning, and study of indigenous and diasporic languages of the Americas. Introducing Kreyòl In the fall of 2016, CLACS began offering is the gateway to culture, and when you disastrous living’” and get to a more honest classes in Haitian Kreyòl to students speak someone’s language, it’s the fastest and human image of Haitian culture. enrolled at NYU, Columbia University, way to connect with them,” says Wynnie Another part of the educational and Lehman College as part of the new Lamour, NYU’s first instructor of Haitian experience of Kreyòl at NYU has been Indigenous and Diasporic Language Kreyòl. Linguist, educator, and language generating content on Wikipedia through Consortium. At NYU Kreyòl classes enable activist, Lamour is the founder and director a WikiEdu project. Students in the Haitian students to learn the language, to study of the Haitian Kreyòl Language Institute Kreyòl classes pick topics that interest Haitian culture, and to build a mindful and of New York, with which CLACS has also them and that are absent from the Kreyòl meaningful engagement with New York’s collaborated to host community language version of Wikipedia, and then write an Haitian community. Worldwide, Kreyòl is courses in the summers. In her classes, article for the Wikipedia page. In this way, spoken by approximately 10 million people, students watch and discuss music videos students both practice their language skills including the vast majority of those in Haiti and films, taste a variety of traditional and contribute more information on Haiti- as well as in Haitian communities across the Haitian dishes, and explore sites of Haitian related topics to the internet knowledge diaspora. Some estimates put the number culture in New York. This beyond-the- base. of Haitians and Haitian-Americans in New textbook approach is part of Lamour’s effort Both students and the larger community York at 400,000. to “rehumanize Haiti” by “ripping out have taken advantage of Haiti-related “I like to teach Haitian Kreyòl using a misguided notions that have been ingrained cultural events sponsored by CLACS. cultural lens approach, because language after so many years of ‘postcolonial Lamour has shared tastes of Haiti by hosting “tea parties” that feature a range of Haitian teas. In the e 2015–2016 academic year, CLACS hosted public events with Anthony Louis- Jeune (a.k.a. Aton), the creator of Haiti’s first comic book superhero; André Eugène, founder and artist in the Port- au-Prince based collective Atiz Resistans; and with New York house and African diasporic music DJ Sabine Blaizin. Through cultural events, music, food, and formal language classes, students at CLACS are engaging with Haiti like never before.

Wynnie Lamour converses with Ola Ronke, creator and direc- tor of the Free Black Women’s Library, April, 2016.

12 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu Members of the ROC and the New York community celebrate a Quechua Night by playing Bingo in Queens.

Since 2008, CLACS hasQuechua been home to a communities in the New Yorkat metropolitan NYU program in 2016, that is “as much about vibrant Quechua program, offering a two- area. The student-run Runasimi Outreach revolutionizing radio airwaves as it is year sequence of elementary and and Committee (ROC) organizes monthly about cultural/linguistic empowerment intermediate Quechua to NYU, Columbia, activities to celebrate and empower Quechua and grassroots social organizing” and Lehman College students as part of language and culture. Events are held both (KichwaHatari.org). the Indigenous and Diasporic Language on the NYU campus as well as at area In Spring 2015, CLACS/ROC presented Consortium. An Andean indigenous community centers, schools, and museums. the first Quechua Film Festival in New language, Quechua (Runa Simi) is the In 2014, for example, ROC collaborated with York, “May Sumak: Quichua Film most widely spoken native american the Queens Museum in Corona, Queens, Showcase,” held over three days at NYU, language. Its over 10 million speakers are to organize a day-long Kichwa-Quechua the Smithsonian National Museum of the concentrated in the Andes and are also festival at the museum attended by over American Indian, the Queens Museum, found in communities across the world, 200 area residents. Every December, ROC and the Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies including growing numbers of Quechua organizes a celebratory Andean Culture Institute at Lehman College, CUNY. The and Kichwa speakers in New York City. Night, with local organizations presenting festival included a preview of Ecuadorian In addition to language classes, CLACS dance, music, and poetry from the region, to director Alberto Muenala’s Killa, Ay develops publicly available resources for over 150 attendees. In both 2014 and 2016, Taquicgu, y Yakumanta, the first ever feature- language teaching and learning. Its most CLACS presented the renowned Peruvian length Kichwa film, produced with the widely used resource is Rimasun (meaning soprano, Silvia Falcón, to standing-room Ecuadorian collective Runacinema. It also “let’s talk”), a student-created free audio only audiences. featured historic documentaries in Kichwa, series for use in the classroom that features In 2014, then-student Charlie Uruchima contemporary short films by indigenous interviews with native Quechua- and (‘15) co-founded Kichwa Hatari, the first women directors, and the filmRunasimiwan Kichwa-speakers. Kichwa radio program in the US, aimed Kawsay/Living Quechua, directed by CLACS CLACS understands Quechua as a at reaching the Quechua/Kichwa public alumna Christine Mladic Janney (MA ‘10). vibrant local language, in addition to a in the US and particularly in New York The festival also included performances by regional Latin American language, and City. CLACS continues to support and dance troupes Wawa Sumags and Ecuador promotes a range of outreach activities collaborate with this innovative a weekly Sumag Llacta, and a concert by New York- with Quechua- and Kichwa-speaking Kicwha radio program, which added a TV based Andean band Inkarayku.

clacsnyublog.com CLACS at NYU 13 Welcome Back NACLA The North American Congress on Latin community. Alejandro Velasco, America (NACLA), housed at CLACS NYU Gallatin Professor of since 2012, is thrilled to announce the Latin American history and the relaunch of its flagship magazine “Report author of Barrio Rising: Urban on the Americas” in April 2016. Popular Politics and the Making For nearly fifty years, the NACLA Report of Modern Venezuela (University has provided independent coverage on of California Press, 2015), was Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing appointed Executive Editor of the on social movements, social justice, anti- Report in September 2015. He is colonialism, and fostering relationships joined by Joshua Frens-String as of mutual respect between the United the magazine’s managing editor. States and the region. Drawing on a Frens-String holds a Ph.D. in Latin vibrant community of activists, scholars, American History from NYU, journalists, artists, and researchers, and has previously worked at the NACLA has been at the forefront of Open Society Institute and the exposing US support for dictators, National Security Archive. Laura human rights violations, and policies that Weiss, a CLACS MA student undermine security, sovereignty, and social and former Latin American progress in the region. Rights and Security Fellow at the in Latin America and in the Latinx United In collaboration with Routledge, the Center for International Policy, is States. This summer, NACLA turns its Report will again be available as a quarterly Web Editor/Editorial Assistant. NACLA attention to the intersection of states, journal, with full editorial autonomy. plans to expand its team to facilitate markets, and drugs, drawing from wide In addition to the new Report, NACLA programming, outreach, and publicity. ranging analysts to examine how the continues to run an active website. With Future issues of the Report will drug war has facilitated private capital the ongoing support of CLACS, NACLA continue to provide hard-hitting analysis accumulation in the Americas. co-sponsors a variety of events and of the region, covering the retreat of Congratulations to NACLA, and to provides internships and jobs for CLACS Latin America’s left, Latinx politics in many more years as a leading voice in students, serving as an educational tool the 2016 US elections, the Trans-Pacific the community of scholars, writers, and and community resource for progressive Partnership’s impact on regional politics activists working to bring the Americas analysis of Latin American politics. and economies, the environment, and into sharper focus in the spirit of critical NACLA welcomes the leadership of a more. The spring issue looks at the inquiry, social justice, and solidarity. new editorial team drawn from the NYU changing face of solidarity and activism

Latin American News Dispatch The Latin America News Dispatch was America. Since its re-launch, the Dispatch Its daily news briefing, “Today in Latin founded in 2010 by a group of students has published written, visual and audio America,” is sent to subscribers across from NYU’s joint Global Journalism and reporting from throughout the region, academia, government, non-profits, Latin American Studies program. After a covering topics such as housing rights business, and the media. A podcast, Latin hiatus, the site was relaunched by a group in Mexico City, tensions over mining in America Radio Dispatch, was launched in of NYU graduate students in the fall of Nicaragua, and analysis of Colombia’s 2015. Later that year, the National Public 2014, with a redesigned website. internal conflict. Its reporters have Radio program Latino USA began hosting The site publishes original reporting interviewed figures such as Argentine “Today in Latin America” and select and analysis by its staff and freelancers journalist Graciela Mochkofsky and original reporting on its website. in New York and throughout Latin Bogotá Mayor Antanas Mockus.

14 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu K-12 Outreach Sharing a city with the largest public school language and identity, and the processes In the summer of 2016, CLACS will offer district in the country—comprised of 1.1 of migration itself. Each film is followed a workshop on using documentary film million students—CLACS provides high- by a public roundtable, in which the film to teach the history and present realities quality resources and programs on Latin director, scholars, and community activists of migration, entitled “Undocumented America and the Caribbean. Our K-12 film reflect on the film and the questions it Cinema: Teaching About Migration Through series and intensive training workshops. raises. Film.” Through the works of leading reach hundreds of teachers each year. In the summer of 2015, CLACS filmmakers, including The Sixth Section “Indocumentales/Undocumentaries: collaborated with NYU’s Kevorkian (2003) by New York-based director Alex the US/Mexico Interdependent Film Center for Near East Studies (a fellow Rivera, the workshop explored issues of Series” was co-founded in 2010 by Title VI National Resource Center) to offer migration, mobility, and transnationalism. CLACS and Cinema Tropical, the largest a professional development workshop Teacher participants learned methodologies Latin American film distributor in the accredited by the NYC Department of on using film in the classroom and developed country, with ‘what moves you?’ a New Education on “Islam in the Americas.” lesson plans for use in their own teaching. York-based educational media producer. Taught by professor Aisha Khan and In addition to the film series and The Indocumentales series explores the attended by 32 area teachers, the workshop workshops, CLACS serves as a resource migrant experience in new documentary involved lectures and films, and visits to for K-12 schools by making curricular film from Latin America and the United the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to a materials and the expertise of resident States, and engages issues of citizenship local mosque and community center in Bay graduate students and professors available and belonging, questions of social justice, Ridge, Brooklyn. to educators as needed.

Museum Studies The dual programs in Museum Studies and of exhibitions and collections, and museum the internship, required for both the dual Latin American studies prepare students for administration. As a global cultural capital, degree program and the concentration, successful museum careers that capitalize on New York City offers an unparalleled through which students gain the necessary their interdisciplinary area studies training. environment for students of museum studies professional experience to embark in a Two programs are available: the MA in Latin to apply the theory and knowledge gained museum career. American studies with a concentration in in the classroom to the “real world.” Final Recent alumni from the joint programs in Museum Studies; and the dual degree in projects are modeled on future work in the Museum Studies and Latin American studies Latin American Studies with a certificate field and include creating comprehensive now pursue careers in curation, education, and in Museum Studies. The concentration is a exhibition proposals, grant proposals, conservation. They have received fellowships three-semester program; the certificate is a marketing campaigns, and evaluating with the prestigious Latino Museum Studies four-semester program with greater course museum educational and community Program at the Smithsonian, and have found and internship requirements. outreach programs, among many other with work with the Museo del Barrio, Cinema Founded more than thirty years ago, the projects. Site visits to a variety of cultural Tropical, Museum of Chinese, the Fábrica de Museum Studies program at NYU provides institutions complement in-class lectures, Arte in Havana, Cuba, and the Smithsonian a broad foundation in the history and theory readings and coursework. A fundamental Hirshorn Museum in Washington DC., of museums, the creation and maintenance aspect of this “real world” education is among other venues.

clacsnyublog.com CLACS at NYU 15 Spotlight on Ada Ferrer Ada Ferrer, Professor of integrated into an international capitalist Freedom’s Mirror has been recognized History and Latin Amer- system. Ferrer traces the dynamics of pow- widely. It was winner of the 2015 Friedrich ican & Caribbean Stud- er, influence, and circulation that interlocked Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean ies at CLACS, published the two islands on their contrast- History, the Wesley-Logan Prize her award-winning book ing trajectories, illustrating how, in African Diaspora History, and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba for example, Cuba’s commercial the James A. Rawley Prize for the and Haiti in the Age of expansion benefited from the ar- History of the Atlantic Worlds be- Revolution (Cambridge University Press) rival of planters fleeing the war in fore the 20th Century, all from the in November 2014. The book explores the Haiti; and how Spain’s involve- American Historical Association. complex and intertwined histories of neigh- ment in the Haitian conflict in It was also winner of the 2015 boring sugar-producing islands of the Ca- turn shaped Spanish and Cuban Haiti Illumination Book Prize ribbean—Haiti and Cuba—at the turn of the views of slavery. Following the awarded by the Haitian Studies 19th century. Two revolutions marked the movement of armies, slaving ves- Association, of the 2015 Mary- moment: the revolution against slavery in sels, travellers, government doc- sa Navarro Best Book Award, Haiti leading to the foundation of the first uments, letters, and other texts drawn from awarded by the New England Council of black republic, and the so called “sugar rev- wide ranging archival research to tell this Latin American Studies and the 2015 Fred- olution” that firmly entrenched slavery in story of two islands, Ferrer makes a decisive erick Douglass Book Prize, awarded by Yale Cuba, transforming the island from a soci- contribution to both Caribbean and Atlantic University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the ety with slaves to a full scale slave regime World studies. Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Faculty Publications Books Valencia: Aduana Vieja, 2015. _____. “El inmigrante caminante” (Foreword). Casteñeda, Jorge (CLACS). Amarres Perros, The Walking Immigrant by Francisco García una Autobiografía. Mexico: Alfaguara, 2014. González. Alexandria Library Publishing _____. Solo Así, por una agenda ciudadana House, Miami, FL, 2015. Independiente, Mexico: Alfaguara, 2016. _____. “Piñera y profecía”. Una isla llamada Davila, Arlene (Anthropology). Virgilio. (Jesús Jambrina Ed.) Doral, FL: Contemporary Latino/a Media: Production, Stockcero Inc., 2015. Circulation and Politics Edited with Yeidy Gonzales, Odi (CLACS). Birds on the Kiswar Rivero, New York University Press, 2014. Tree. Poemas by Odi Gonzales (La Escuela de _____. El Mall: The Spatial and Class Politics Cusco). A Bilingual Spanish/English Edition. of Shopping Malls in Latin America. UC Translated by Lynn Levin. New York, 2Leaf Kalman Silvert Press, 2015. Press, 2014. As the founding president of LASA, and Del Risco, Enrique (Spanish & Portuguese). Grandin, Greg (History). Kissinger’s the first director of NYU’s CLACS, Kalman Elogio de la levedad. Mitos nacionales shadow : the long reach of America’s Silvert casts a long shadow over the field cubanos y sus reescrituras literarias en el most controversial statesman. New York: of Latin American Studies. The 2016 release siglo XX. Electronic reedition by Editorial Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and of Kalman Silvert: Engaging Latin America, Hypermedia, Madrid, October, 2014. Company, 2015. Building Democracy, edited by Abraham F. _____. Enrisco para presidente. New York: Nero, Shondel (Teaching and Learning). & Lowenthal and Martin Weinstein delves Sudaquia Editores, September, 2014. Ahmad, D. Vernaculars in the classroom: into his extraordinary career, and the way _____. “Donde todo el mundo es extranjero”. Paradoxes, pedagogy, possibilities. New York his legacy continues to shape the work of Atiéndeme, quiero decirte algo. Historias Routledge, 2014. the inter-American scholarly community. del exilio cubano. (Zenaida Madurka Ed.). Piñón, J. (Media, Culture and

16 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu Faculty Publications Communication). “Complex labor relations modern Venezuela. Oakland, California : “Behind Maya Doors: Gender Violence, in Latin American television industries.” In University of California Press, 2015. Acceptance, and Resistance in Highland M. Curtin and K. Sanson (Eds). Precarious Guatemala” Gendered Perspectives in Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor Articles International Development #305, 2015. (132–145). Los Angeles, CA: University of Gonzales, Odi (Spanish & Portuguese, California Press, 2016. Abercrombie, Thomas (Anthropology, CLACS). “Juicio oral. Los entuertos de El _____, Flores, M., & Cornejo, T. USA: The CLACS). “The Iterated Mountain: Things as Quixote en la versión quechua”. Revista Hispanic TV industry in a cross-road. Signs in Potosí.” Journal of Latin American de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales de la In G. Orozco and M. Immacolata (Eds.). and Caribbean Anthropology 21:1 (March Universidad Científica del Sur (Lima Perú). Gender relations in fictional television 2016): 83-108. Vol. 7. No. 2. Octubre 2015. in Ibero-American countries. Ibero- _____.”The Devil, Temptation, and Penitence _____. “Quechua vocabulary in Cesar Vallejo’s American Observatory on Television Fiction in Oruro’s Carnival Pageant.” In: Milla Cozart works” Selected Writings of Cesar Vallejo. OBITEL Yearbook 2015. Sau Paulo: Globo Riggio, Paolo Vignolo, and Angela Marino Edited by Joseph Mulligan. Middleton, Universidade, Editora Sulina, 2015. Segura, eds, Festive Devils of the Americas. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, _____. “Corporate articulations of Seagull Press/University of Chicago Press, 2015. transnationalism: the U.S. Hispanic and Latin 2015. _____. “De Cusco a Greenwich Village” Latin American television industries,” In A. Dávila, Ebsworth, Miriam (Teaching & Learning) Lover Magazine, 2015. and Y. Rivero (Eds.). Contemporary Latina/o and Cai, C. Chinese language or dialect? Melzi, Gigliana (Psychology) and McCabe, media. Production, circulation and politics What’s in a name? Perspectives. Jan-Mar A., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Bornstein, M.H. (21–43). New York, NY: New York University issue. NABE: Silver Spring, MD, 2016 Brockmeyer Cates, C., Golinkoff, R., Hirsh- Press, 2014. _____. The many faces of feedback on Pasek, K., Hoff, E., Kuchirko, Y., Mendelsohn, _____, & Cornejo, T. USA: Hispanic TV writing: A historical perspective. Writing and A., Páez, M., Song, L., & Wishard Guerra, A. has extended to social media. In G. Orozco Pedagogy, 6:2, 195–221. doi: 10.1558/wap. “Multilingual children: Beyond myths and and M. Immacolata (Eds.). Transmedia v6i2.195., 2014. towards best practices”. SRCD Policy Report, production strategies in fictional television _____. and Kostka, Ilka H. Using Turnitin 27:4 (2014) 1–21. in Ibero American countries. Ibero-American to support students’ understanding of _____. and Schick, A. R. “Language and Observatory, 2014. textual borrowing in academic writing: A literacy in the school years”. In J. Berko Shedlin, Michelle (Nursing), Carlos Ulises case study. In Li, Shuai and Swanson, Peter Gleason & N. Bernstein Ratner, The Decena; Hugo Noboa; Michelle Báez; (Eds.) Engaging Language Learners through Development of Language (9th Edition). Sebastián Betancourt; Juan Villalobos; Technology Integration: Theory, Applications, Boston: Pearson Allyn & Bacon, 2016. Paola Moreno; Óscar Betancourt. Salud and Outcomes (45–72). Hershey, PA : IGI _____. and Mundt, K., Gregory, A., McWayne, y condiciones de vida de los refugiados Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6174-5. C. M. “The influence of ethnic match on colombianos en Quito. Publisher: Quito- ch003 Latino school-based family engagement.” Ecuador: Abya Yala, 2014. Goldín, Liliana (Silver School of Social Work) Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 37:2 Stout, Noelle (Anthropology). After Love: and Asturias de Barrios, L., Xiap Satey, EL, (2015) 170-185. Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Padilla, D., Mejía, I., Mazariegos, L., de _____. and Schick, A. R. “Print-related Post-Soviet Cuba. Durham; London: Duke Leon, O. “La adherencia al tratamiento de practices in low-income Latino homes and University Press, 2014. la diabetes tipo 2 en mujeres mayas del preschoolers’ school-readiness outcomes”. Taylor, Diana (Performance Studies). occidente de Guatemala en el contexto de Journal of Early Childhood Literacy (2015) Performance. Durham: Duke University salud pública, etnicidad, pobreza y género”. 1-28. Press, 2016. Revista de Estudios Interetnicos 26(21):21-34, Navia, Patricio (CLACS) and Caterina Bo. Weinstein, Barbara (History). The color of 2016. “Evolución de la presencia y éxito de las modernity: Sao Paulo and the making of race _____. and Courtney Dowdall. “Inequality candidatas en elecciones en Chile, 1989-2009” and nation in Brazil. Durham ; London: Duke of Rights: Rural Industrial Workers of Revista Española de Ciencia Política. Núm. University Press, 2015. Guatemala Inhabiting Tenuous Legal Spaces” 40. Marzo 2016, pp. 117–138. Velasco, Alejandro (History). Barrio rising: Economic Anthropology, 2015. _____. and Rodrigo Osorio. “It’s the Christian urban popular politics and the making of _____. and Rachel Copeland, Diana Padilla. Democrats’ Fault: Declining Political

clacsnyublog.com CLACS at NYU 17 Faculty Publications Identification in Chile, 1957-2012” Canadian aproximación al estado del voto económico _____. and Rodrigo Osorio. “Las encuestas Journal of Political Science, 48.4, pp (815– en América Latina” Revista Política. Vol 53 de opinión pública en Chile antes de 1973” 838), 2015. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ No. 1, pp. 3–14, 2015. DOI: 10.5354/0716- Latin American Research Review Vol 50.1 S0008423915001067. 1077.2015.38174 (Spring) 2015, pp. 117–139. (Refereed, ISI). _____. and Kenneth Bunker. “Incumbency _____. and Ignacio Soto Castro. “It’s not Robbins, Dylan (Spanish & Portuguese, Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean the economy, stupid. ¿Qué tanto explica el CLACS). “Polyrhythm and the Valorization Chamber of Deputies, 1989–2009” Revista voto económico los resultados en elecciones of Time in Three Movements.” Brasiliana: de Ciencia Política, 35.2, pp. 251–271, 2015. presidenciales en Chile, 1999–2013?” Revista Journal for Brazilian Studies; 2015, Vol. 4 (Refereed, ISI). Política. Vol 53 No. 1, pp. 165–189, 2015. DOI: Issue 1, 82. _____. and Rodrigo Osorio. “El Mercurio 10.5354/0716-1077.2015.38154 Thomson, Sinclair (History). “El problema Lies and La Tercera Lies Even more. Political _____. and Sergio Acevedo. “Un método del territorio: Mariátegui visto desde la Bias in Newspaper Headlines in Chile, 1994– no endógeno para medir el gasto electoral historia indígena.” El Apantle. Revista de 2010” Bulletin of Latin American Research, en Chile, 2005–2009” Revista Mexicana de Estudios Comunitarios (Puebla, Mexico) 1 Vol. 34.4, pp. 467–485, 2015. DOI:10.1111/ Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 2015 Año LX, (1): 177–185, 2015. blar.12364 (Refereed, ISI). #225, septiembre-diciembre, pp. 111–136, _____. “Moments of Redemption: _____. and José Luis Saldaña. “Mis- 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/52068 Decolonization as Reconstitution of the Body coordination and Political Misalignments in _____. and Felipe Barrueto. “Evolución of Katari.” emisférica 12 (1), 2015. Ticket-Splitting: the Case of Chile, 2005–2009” de las preferencias políticas y de políticas _____. “Beyond the Old Order of Things.” (with José Luis Saldaña) Contemporary públicas entre el sector popular y el resto Prologue to Raquel Gutiérrez, Rhythms of the Politics 21:4, pp. 485–503, (2015) DOI: de la sociedad chilena entre 1990 y 2012” Pachakuti: Indigenous-Popular Mobilization 10.1080/13569775.2015.1014174. Perfiles Latinoamericanos Vol 23 (46) (julio- and Uprising in Bolivia (2000-2005). Durham: _____. and Rodrigo Osorio. “Una diciembre), pp. 61–89, 2015 (Refereed, ISI). Duke University Press, 2014. When Rights Ring Hollow Racism and Anti-Racist Horizons in the Americas Red de Investigación Acción Anti-Racista en las Américas

In February 2010, CLACS launched the Research teams were formed as part of questions guided the project: 1. How can Working Group on Racisms in Comparative anti-racist observatories in each country to we explain transformations, constrictions or Perspective as part of a larger Americas- analyze the retrenchment in Latin America closure in the advancement of rights and, in wide initiative to consolidate a Red de and the US of a two-decade expansion some cases, increasing economic disparities Investigación Acción Anti-Racista en las of Afro-descendant and indigenous with respect to racialized populations? 2. Américas (RAIAR). As a full member of collective rights. In some cases, the end of What are the strategic implications of this this Network and in coordination with the the “multicultural turn” has been abrupt, transformation with respect to anti-racist Observatorio del Racismo en Bolivia and evidenced in a dramatic reversal in the mobilization? 3. How is structural racism LLILAS at UT Austin, our Center convened record of respect for, and implementation produced and reproduced at the present a Colloquium on Contemporary Racisms of, Afro-descendant and indigenous rights; moment, as in the paradox of “racism in the Americas (2011), 30 Working Group in others, it has been subtler, or there was no without race”? 4. What local, national and sessions, and hosted a two-day workshop expansion at all. The research carried out in international strategies are currently being focused on a comparative and relational the case studies sought to map this historical pursued in the Americas to address racism analysis of an ambitious research project trajectory of racial formation and anti-racist and racial disparities? spanning seven countries (Bolivia, Brazil, mobilization in each country, and focused Preliminary results of Phase Four of this Guatemala, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and ethnographically on a specific example investigation were presented at LASA 2016, the US). of anti-racist organizing. The following NYC.

18 CLACS at NYU clacs.as.nyu.edu In Memoriam Juan Flores (1943–2014)

As the academic year 2014 came to a close, we learned about the was in German literature and German intellectual history, and his sudden passing of our beloved colleague, Juan Flores, professor of writing reflected that emphasis; his study of Nuyorican sociology, Latino Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis for example, employed Hegelian dialectics and Marxist class at NYU and affiliated faculty at the Center for Latin American analysis.” His research on Puerto Rican and Latino diasporas and Caribbean Studies. At NYU, we have been so fortunate to in the US as well as on Afro-Latin music and culture has built share in the last years of a rich legacy of scholarly his distinguished career: work that will benefit he was an inspirational generations of students to teacher, a tireless mentor, come. and a brilliant scholar. His body of work Affable, gentle, includes Insularismo thoughtful, and brilliant, e ideología burguesa en is what will come to mind Antonio Pedreira (1980); to most people when Divided Borders: Essays Juan’s name is mentioned. on Puerto Rican Identity Compassion and scholarly (1993); From Bomba to Hip- depth characterize his Hop: Puerto Rican Culture writing. Juan had a way of and Latino Identity (2000); bringing people’s voices Companion to Latino Studies into his work and letting them speak. Puerto Rican saxophonist (2007); The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Miguel Zeno, for one, created “Identities are Changeable,” a Turning (2009); Bugalú y otros guisos: ensayos sobre culturas latinas 16-piece jazz orchestra performance that was inspired by one en Estados Unidos (2010); and The Afro-Latino Reader (2011). His of Juan’s seminal works on Latino/Puerto Rican identity The most recent work was Salsa Rising: New York Latin Music of the Diaspora Strikes Back. Sixties Generation (2014). What made Juan’s work remarkable, was the depth of his Among his many distinctions were two Premios de la Casa sociological analysis and the wide range, never diluted, of his Las Americas (1980 and 2009) and the Smithsonian Latino Legacy training and research. In Paul Vitello’s obituary in the New York Award (2008). Times, he described his unusual academic trajectory: “His Ph.D. We mourn his passing, and celebrate his life. Title VI National Resource Center The New York City Consortium for Latin Studies) funding. In the last two years as well as other area institutions, meet American Studies (NYC-CLAS) is a both universities have undertaken new regularly to collaborate and participate partnership between CLACS at NYU and initiatives to grow the Consortium in dialogues on topics such as Latin the Institute of Latin American Studies partnership. American History, Political Economy, or of Columbia University, both leaders in We share a history of close collaboration Migration. We also jointly hosted two teaching, research, and outreach activities rooted in common faculty research conferences, Feminist Constellations related to the region. Since 1988, the interests, complementary academic (2013) and Politics of the Popular (2014). Consortium has been designated a Title strengths, and ease of MA and PhD student Our well-established outreach programs, VI National Resource Center by the cross-registration. The Consortium including K-12 teacher training and Department of Education and a recipient sponsors Faculty Working Groups in curriculum development, annually reach of FLAS (Foreign Language and Area which scholars from Columbia and NYU, a public of thousands.

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