Past Events

The Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies program hosts a film series each semester! Please see the below flyer for more information on each film showing: LACLS Film Series Spring 2021 These events will take place on Zoom, and registration is necessary. To register, please contact Dr. Micah McKay.

Dr. Pettway will present his recent book, Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion, which argues that Black Cuban colonial authors subverted the symbols of Catholicism to create portrayals of African-insipred spirituality. Such literature had aesthetic and political consequences. In 1844, Spanish authorities executed Gabrial de la Conceptión Valdés (Plácido) as the alleged ringleader of "the conspiracy... to exterminate... the white population." The authorities claimed that Plácido had administered "horrendous oaths" to fellow blacks…

The Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies program hosts a film series each semester! Please see the below flyer for more information on each film showing: LACLS Film Series Spring 2021 These events will take place on Zoom, and registration is necessary. To register, please contact Dr. Micah McKay.

American Mirror investigates how American and Brazilian reformers worked together to ensure that slave emancipation would advance the interests of capital. From the 1850s to the 1880s, this anti-slavery coalition - which included diplomats, engineers, entrepreneurs, journalists, merchants, missionaries, planters, politicians, scientists, and students, among others - consolidated wage labor as the dominant production system in their countries. The book shows that these reformers were not romantic humanitarians, but cosmopolitan modernizers who worked together to promote labor-saving machinery, new transportation…