Step back 300 years into colonial Latin America and the textiles are lavish, fashions often akin to couture, and who wore what was determined not just by what they could afford, but by class and ...

A new report by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) finds that more than half of the 95 legal cases initiated ...

Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian cultures. Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% ...

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Dress codes shown in 18th-Century art can tell us a lot about race and identity – both then and now. Cath Pound explores the details hidden in the "Casta" paintings of Latin America.

This class examines the history of Latin America from 1492 until the early nineteenth century. After considering the rise of the Aztec and Inca empires, we will consider how the Spanish and Portuguese ...

Cities throughout Latin America hold historical treasures that are world heritage sites thanks to the enormous cultural value that is recognized by tourists from all over the world. The great colonial ...

As a historian of Latin America, I’ve paid attention to the ways calendars signal a nation’s “official” values and how countries wrestle with these holidays’ meanings.. Día de la Raza ...

Object Details Author Johnson, Lyman L Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya 1961-Contents Honor and honors in colonial Spanish America / Mark A. Burkholder -- Honor, sexuality, and the colonial church / Geoffrey ...

Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian ...