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March 12, 2024 Connecting past and present, Central American Counterpoetics proposes the concepts of rememory and counterpoetics as decolonial tools for studying the art, popular culture, literature music, and healing practices of…

March 12, 2024 Connecting past and present, Central American Counterpoetics proposes the concepts of rememory and counterpoetics as decolonial tools for studying the art, popular culture, literature music, and healing practices of…

March 7, 2024 While there is a long history of state violence toward immigrants in the United States, the essayists in this interdisciplinary collection tackle head-on the impacts of the Trump administration. Resistance and…

March 5, 2024 In 1957 Sputnik launched toward the stars. President Kennedy then announced that the United States would send men to the Moon and then return them to Earth. These pivotal moments sparked an unequaled bound forward in…

The border between the United States and Mexico is one of the most unique and complex regions of the world. The asymmetry of the border region, together with the profound cultural differences of the two countries, create national…

November 21, 2023 Continually recognized as one of the “hottest” of all the world’s biodiversity hotspots, the island of Madagascar has become ground zero for the most intensive market-based conservation interventions on Earth.…

December 12, 2023 Ordinary Injustice by Alfredo Mirandé is the unique and riveting story of a young Latino student, Juan Rulfo, with no previous criminal record involved in a domestic violence dispute that quickly morphs into a…

November 18, 2023 The reality of Central American migrations is broad, diverse, multidirectional, and uncertain. It also offers hope, resistance, affection, solidarity, and a sense of community for a region that has one of the…

November 15, 2023 In From the Skin edited by Jerome Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer with foreword by Nick Estes, contributors describe how they apply the theories and concepts of Indigenous studies to their communities, programs,…

November 8, 2023 Written for all gaming enthusiasts, Ready Player Juan by Carlos Gabriel Kelly González fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to document how Latinx masculinities are portrayed in high-budget action-adventure…

The generates more electronic waste than any other country in the world. More than half of the computers collected for recycling in the are shipped to developing countries. "Terra Blight" explores America's consumption of computers and…

UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres issues call to action to meet the global climate challenge during an address to students, business leaders and academics at New York University.

Three minute excerpt from PBS series e2 design II narrated by Brad Pitt. This episode is the sixth in the series and titled "Architecture 2030." Show is set to begin airing Winter '07. Check local listing for details, or visit our website…

On , 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Carter "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote…

Taking on the twin crises of "food desert" neighborhoods and obesity, cities are using multiple approaches to give families access to fresh fruits and vegetables, including corner stores, bodegas, farmers markets, food trucks and even…