So excited that @UnivofALPress sent me the cover of my new book while I’m in Chile for the first time since 2019!

📕BLAR's (44:2) BOOK REVIEW📕 6. Hazel Marsh (@uniofeastanglia) reviews Eunice Rojas’s Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music (2024 @UnivofALPress). @protestasrojas READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

El nuevo Secretario de Estado de los Estados Unidos no es cubano; nació en el país norteño 15 años después de que sus padres emigraran de Cuba, en 1956, antes del triunfo de la Revolución. No pueden vanagloriarse de haber "salido huyendo" del comunismo. Su familia huyó de un capitalismo salvaje, subdesarrollado y neocolonial. Huyeron de la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista que, entre el 10 de marzo de 1952 y el 31 de diciembre de 1958, asesinó y dsapareció a más de 20.000 estudiantes, obreros, campesinos e intelectuales cubanos, en su mayoría jóvenes. Va hilo 🪡 🧵

Why they want to ban TikTok

So excited to coincide with my new book at @SECOLAS_org today in Asheville!

Last night, @uofg Senate, I spoke against the abolition of the BA Major in Spanish/Hispanic Studies. Most Senate resolutions pass w/ 95% support; my arguments reduced support for getting rid of Spanish to 50-51%. Plse RT if you support universities having Spanish programs!

Your monthly reminder, from an American from Chile.

For 200th anniversary of Monroe Doctrine, a 🧵 looking back at some US attitudes towards Latin America: 'The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact, as by the superiority of our race, it already is ours morally' President William H. Taft (1909-13) grace-livingstone.com/2018/0…

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"Ahora volemos libres, tierna paloma... Envuélvete en mi cariño Deja la vida volar" - Víctor Jara

Schools in the UNC system will no longer award distinguished professorships to faculty in the humanities. The UNC Board of Governors says the honors "will now only be given in STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields." wunc.org/education/2023-10-1…

Hace 4 años escribí esto sobre lo que vi en la calle. Y les juro qué pasó. No fue una ilusión óptica ni un brote vandálico. Protestas en Chile: El gran chiste | Opinión | EL PAÍS elpais.com/elpais/2019/10/23…

Check out this very relevant presentation at MIFLC 2023 later this week: Glorimar Blanco will present “Retaining Latinx Faculty in Higher Education.” Can’t wait!

Can't wait for this presentation by Eunice Rojas: “Marxist Musicians and Squandered Songs: Anticapitalism in the Dictatorship Era Music of Eduardo Peralta” in the panel, “Displaced and Replaced: Migrants, Marxists, Exiles, and Sex Dolls in Latin American Cultural Production."

I'm excited to be joining Lori Oxford @huitzilin in this panel on displaced migrants, Marxists, exiles, and sex dolls to present "Marxist Musicians and Squandered Songs: Anticapitalism in the Dictatorship Era Music of Eduardo Peralta"

More amazing presentations this week at MIFLC 2023 at Shenandoah University: Debbie Barnard will be presenting “The Third Way of Being: Family, Identity and Displacement in Claude Kayat’s La Paria.” We can’t wait!

So many wonderful presentations at MIFLC 2023! Abby Barefoot will be presenting “Immigrants V Humanely- Treated Immigrants: Spot the Difference.” We can’t wait!

Looking forward to many awesome presentations this week at MIFLC 2023 at Shenandoah University!! Robert Simon will be presenting “O Amor em chamas: o amor e a sociedade em Guardar o Fogo (2013) de Joaquim Pessoa”

More amazing presentations this week at MIFLC 2023 at Shenandoah University: Dr. Jeffrey Zamostny (Professor of Spanish, University of West Georgia) is presenting "Tórtola Valencia, José Zamora, and the Art of Queer Collaboration"

Are you looking to publish your scholarship in a peer-reviewed journal? Don’t miss the MIFLC Review Informational Session led by Andrea Meador Smith, Eunice Rojas, and Bryan Pearce-González at MIFLC 2023, 10-10:45am on Saturday. Can’t wait to see you there!!

We can’t wait to attend these amazing presentations at MIFLC 2023 later this week! Raquel Patricia Chiquillo is presenting “Exploring the Influence of Nahua Poetry in Two Poems by Pedro Geoffroy Rivas: ‘Danza ritual en honor de Chiconcoat” and “Ofrenda a Itzpapalot’.”