Recently José Antonio Lucero, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Comparative History of Ideas Associate Professor and Department of American Indian Studies Adjunct Associate Professor, shared his thoughts with us on the meaning of Hispanic Heritage Month: “Hispanic Heritage Month” does seem to need some re-thinking. While I understand and endorse

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Free Them All: Portraits from La Resistencia and Hostile Terrain 94 are on view at the Henry Art Gallery as part of Art at the Borders of the Political, a multi- faceted project sponsored by the University of Washington’s Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. The project centers the question of how

Separated at the U.S.-Canada border: For a father and son, 90 miles is a distance too far SEATTLE — In 2019, federal agents took Carlos Rivera away in handcuffs when he strayed across the U.S.-Canada border, even though he says they could see his 7-year-old son waiting for him with a friend on the Canadian side.

In “Northwest detention center in Tacoma slated to close under bill passed by Legislature” Angelina Godoy gives comments on documented systemic abuse as well as the impact of COVID-19 on the Northwest detention center.

Monica Rojas-Stewart, Ph.D.; Afro-Peruvian and Afro-Latinx Diaspora Dance Submitted by Lisa Kwak on February 25, 2021 – 5:12pm To celebrate and to recognize that the contributions of Black Americans should be appreciated beyond the month of February, the Department of Dance is using its website and social media platforms to spotlight a different Black dance artist in the

New York, NY – 14 December 2020 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its twenty-eighth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Maya Angela Smith, associate professor of French at the University of Washington, for Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders. Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries, published by the University

In her new book entitled “Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico” published by Duke University Press, on Oct. 15, 2020, Jackson School Assistant Professor Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s. Freije has appeared in media as a commentator on

LACS Chair Tony Lucero, LACS Assistant Director Monica Rojas-Stewart, graduate student Adriana Velasco, Seattle Latino Film Festival Executive Development Director Nari Weaver converse with Argentinian film director Martin Weber about his film “Mapa de sueños latinoamericanos” (Map of Latin American Dreams) Video of conversation here Map of Latin American Dreams Trailer Between 1992 and 2013

Angelina Godoy, chair of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights which is housed in the Jackson School, and Tony Lucero, Jackson School professor and chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, are among 32 faculty members from the Tacoma, Bothell and Seattle campuses who received the UW Latinx Faculty Recognition honor this year by the UW