Between Borders
Three essays from Peoples and Cultures of the Americas at USC, on migration, colonial history, family, and belonging.
Navigating Borders: Home in Latinx Culture
2024
What home means across migration and diaspora, through Gloria Anzaldúa, Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Erika L. Sánchez, and the film A Better Life.
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2024
Colonial extraction, labor, and resistance across the Americas, connected to growing up Argentine-American.
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2024
How Roma and A Better Life portray biological and chosen family under economic pressure and the threat of separation.
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