

COMMENT: Spring 2021
By Rosemary Joyce | The CLAS Interim Chair for January-June 2021 comments on the Spring 2021 Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies.

COVID-19: Getting Supplies in the Right Hands
By Cassandra M. Sweet | Examining the struggle to get pandemic supplies to caregivers in Latin America.

COVID-19: The International–Domestic Nexus of a Catastrophic Pandemic Response
By Carlos R.S. Milani and Tiago Nery | Looking at the national and transnational roots of Brazil's response to Covid-19.

COVID-19: Chile: A Health Crisis Within a Social Crisis
By Claudio A. Méndez | On the intersection of Chile's pandemic response, protests, and ongoing constitutional reform process.

RACE & IDENTITY: Legacies of Struggle: Reflecting on the AfroLatinx Voices Roundtable Series
By John A. Mundell | On the origins and initial steps of the new AfroLatinx Voices Series at CLAS.

BRAZIL: The Struggle for Black Education in Salvador
By C. Darius Gordon | Recounting how the struggle for Black educational access in Brazil helped organize a community.

MIGRACIÓN: Una mirada auto-etnográfica de la migración
Por Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj | Analizando migración desde la perspectiva de una etnógrafa que también es migrante. | With an introduction in English by Rosemary Joyce.

LANGUAGE: Niahciz, I Will Arrive: A Song for the Future From the Past
By Everardo Reyes | Reflecting on his experience learning Nahuatl and the connection and joy he found in the process.

ARCHAEOLOGY: Chocolate’s Deep History in Latin America
By Rosemary Joyce | Presenting new findings about the early use of cacao throughout Latin America.

CLIMATE: The Changing Global Tropics: Hot Droughts in the Amazon
By Jeff Chambers, Clarissa Fontes, and Bruno Oliva Gimenez | The authors discuss the worrying trend of prolonged hot droughts in the Amazon rainforest.

AGRICULTURE: Native Pollinators and the Avocado
By Gordon Frankie, Sara Witt, Ben Faber, and Rollin Coville | The authors discuss work with the species that help pollinate the avocado.

FILM: Remembering to Avoid Repeating
Diego Mondaca, translated by Deborah Meacham | Recounting the experience of creating the film “Chaco.”