"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

Migration and Immigration in Latin America, and "Race" in Colonial Latin America. "A prominent writer from the U.S. south once commented that the past was not dead, nor was it really past. The same ...

Latin America and the Caribbean Thematic Areas of Research: Borders and Borderlands, Comparative and Transnational, Economic History and Capitalism, Imperialism and Colonialism, Iberian Empires, ...

Petro took Bolivar’s name in a scathing response to Trump’s threat of tariffs & sanctions in case Colombia did not accept ...

The conquests and subsequent colonial experience have long generated impassioned debate. Many Latin American leaders now ...