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Getz/Gilberto, named for the two featured artists on the album, American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist Joao Gilberto is one of the albums that best defines the Bossa Nova genre. According to blank, (insert …

Ruth Llana Fernandez and Emi Frerichs are both Ph.D. Candidates in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UW-Madison. Their research, much of which they both completed in Argentina, centers on queerness, queer bodies, and …

Lucrecia Zappi is a journalist and novelist from Buenos Aires, although she grew up in both Mexico City and Brazil. Her two novels, Acre and Jaguar Negro focus on mythical worlds with vast geographies, using …

The decision for migrants to pick up their lives and leave the familiarity of their homes is never an easy one to understand. However, one of the most commonly justified reasons for migration is the …

Since criminalization and repression under the Castro “regime”, Cuba has had a long and treacherous history in discrimination of the queer community. Now that Castro is dead the relationship is even more complicated as Cuba …

The Migrant Caravans traveling from South-Central America to the United States in search of an escape from the unstable and dangerous environments in their native countries have captivated the attention of much of the world. …

Recently-elected Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is often referred to as the “Trump of the tropics”. The ideals which he ran on, known as Bolsonarismo, include furthering the military, and generalizing marginalized groups including indigenous peoples, …

Tinker visiting professor Sebastian Valenzuela has been analyzing the effects of social media on political engagement for the past five years. However, in his lecture, he immediately acknowledges that the way people use social media …

At the size of a medium dog, the Condor is the largest flying bird in the world. For 100s of years, the birds have a documented relationship first with indigenous people in South America, to colonizers, to …