Center for Latin American Studies

Recent evidence emphasizes the significance of procedural justice in fostering trust in the police. However, the empirical research primarily derives from aggregated nati [...]

Constitution-making should not, in theory, result in an absolute no-win situation. But Chile’s Constitutional Process of 2019-2022 is an example of it. To place the Chi [...]

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If the democratic ideal embraces "giving voice," the institution of domestic service—in these films—renders that ideal unstable. Thus, to "give voice&q [...]

This article investigates Classic Maya understandings of two particular animal species: the (gray) fox and the armadillo. We use these species as a point of entry into Cl [...]

How might the meaning of monumental sculpture be ephemeral? At La Venta, objects from greenstone figurines to massive basalt sculptures were recycled, reworked, and moved [...]

What explains the fall and rise of Ecuadorian Indigenous mobilization from 2006-2021, and how Indigenous peoples, both leaders and non-leaders, understand the dynamics of [...]

Femicide is the term given to describe the gender-based murder of a woman or girl by a man (Merriam-Webster). This is the most extreme form of gender-violence and, sadly, [...]

Scholars have previously presumed a Marxist lens to analyzing the Andean pishtaco, a bogeyman figure known for extracting vitality, thus interpreting it as an Indigenous [...]

This article uses a survey of nurses in Illinois to explore the heroization of nurses that occurred during the 2020-2021 pandemic and the effects of social media on respo [...]

In 1969, the Peruvian military launched a coup and quickly enacted what has been called Latin America’s ‘most radical agrarian reform’. The focus of this study is a [...]

The American middle-skilled labor market, which consists of jobs that require some postsecondary training but not a Bachelor’s degree, presents various opportunities fo [...]

This paper examines speeches, articles, interviews and tweets from four New York City Latinx public figures: attorney Elizabeth Yeampierre, journalist Yessenia Funes, con [...]

This paper examines Catherine Cortez Masto's appeals to Latino Voters over her three statewide elections in nevada. Cortez Masto made headlines in 2016 when she became th [...]