USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Latin America News

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  When Worlds Collide

  September 22, 2010

  What is the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Americas and how does it still affect Latin America and Latinos in the United States today? This question is raised in the upcoming PBS documentary When Worlds Collide: The… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: american studies and ethnicity, book, documentary, history, humanities, latin america, maría elena martínez, spain

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  Tracing the Roots of Discrimination

  January 6, 2010

  Maria Elena Martinez's book, Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2008), the first in-depth study of the purity of blood concept and repercussions, has… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: american studies and ethnicity, award, book, history, humanities, latin america, mexico, religion, spain

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  Lowenthal Appointed as Brookings Senior Fellow

  March 1, 2008

  Abraham Lowenthal, holder of the Robert F. Erburu Chair in Ethics, Globalization and Development in USC College, was recently named a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, one of the nation’s foremost … more>

  tags: abe lowenthal, fellowship, international relations, latin america

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  Pinochet’s Past Is Still Present for Professor

  February 1, 2007

  As a child, Macarena Gómez-Barris fled Chile for Northern California with her family, exiles escaping the brutal rule of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. Now, as a faculty member in USC College, Gómez-Barris is plumbing… more>

  categories: graduate, research

  tags: atrocities, latin america