UMKC Latinx and Latin American Studies Program

06/12/2020

Yes, racism IS systemic, and it is oppressing ALL people of color, including Latinxs.

Director of the United States National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow denied the existence of systemic racism in the US when asked by a reporter. CNN's Chris Cuomo uses data to prove Kudlow wrong.

05/28/2020

The US’s brutal fault lines – of race, partisanship, gender, poverty and misinformation – rendered it ill-prepared to meet the challenges of Covid-19

06/24/2019

Cuba y Puerto Rico en foro en Berlín
Un grupo de expertos incluido UMKC Profesor Joseph Hartman discutirá las consecuencias de la Guerra Hispanoamericana de 1898 en las dos islas caribeñas.

Un grupo de expertos discutirá las consecuencias de la Guerra Hispanoamericana de 1898 en las dos islas caribeñas

06/24/2019

My first lecture poster in Russian (!!!), for conference talks delivered in Moscow and St. Petersburg this month.

06/24/2019

Kansas City's Guadalupe Centers: A Century of Serving the Latino Community
On display through May 2020
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
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This yearlong exhibit chronicles the 100-year history of Kansas City’s Guadalupe Centers, Inc. – and by extension, the history of the city’s thriving Hispanic and Latino community. Founded in 1919, Guadalupe Centers is the longest continuously running Latino-serving organization in the country.

Our very own UMKC Professors Theresa Torres and Sandra Enriquez co-curated this exhibit.

04/09/2019

Felicidades to Dr. Joseph R. Hartman, an Assistant Professor in our very own department, on his new book!

DICTATOR'S DREAMSCAPE: HOW ARCHITECTURE AND VISION BUILT MACHADO'S CUBA AND INVENTED MODERN HAVANA

"Joseph Hartman focuses on the public works campaign of Cuban president, and later dictator, Gerardo Machado. Political histories often condemn Machado as a US-puppet dictator, overthrown in a labor revolt and popular revolution in 1933. Architectural histories tend to catalog his regime’s public works as derivatives of US and European models. Dictator’s Dreamscape reassesses the regime’s public works program as a highly nuanced visual project embedded in centuries-old representations of Cuba alongside wider debates on the nature of art and architecture in general, especially in regards to globalization and the spread of US-style consumerism. The cultural production overseen by Machado gives a fresh and greatly broadened perspective on his regime’s accomplishments, failures, and crimes. The book addresses the regime’s architectural program as a visual and architectonic response to debates over Cuban national identity, US imperialism, and Machado’s own cult of personality."

03/14/2019

Bricolaje opens at Charlotte Street's la Esquina Gallery March 15 and runs through April 20 in Kansas City, MO.

01/08/2019

Through a study of the green belt project in , authors Isabelle Anguelovski, Clara Irazábal and James Connolly expose how these favela upgrading policies are triggering and disenfranchising communities. Download the full article: http://www.bcnuej.org/green-gentrification/

11/05/2018

Clara Irazábal-Zurita / University of Missouri-Kansas City
Gui Auditorium / Knowlton Hall
November 7, 2018 - 5:30pm

Dr. Clara Irazábal-Zurita will present a lecture titled "The Counter Land Grabbing of the Precariat: Housing Movements and Restorative Justice in Brazil" in Knowlton Hall’s Gui Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 7. Irazábal is the Director of the Latina/o Studies Program and Professor of Planning with tenure in the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning + Design (AUPD) at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC). Before joining UMKC, Irazábal was the Latin Lab Director and Associate Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

Irazábal has a PhD in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master in Urban Design and Planning from the Central University of Venezuela. In her research and teaching, she explores the interactions of culture, politics, and placemaking, and their impact on community development and socio-spatial justice in Latin American cities and Latino and immigrant communities. Irazábal has published academic work in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

Irazábal is the author of Urban Governance and City Making in the Americas: Curitiba and Portland (Ashgate, 2005) and the editor of Transbordering Latin Americas: Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)Here (Routledge 2014) and Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events: Citizenship, Democracy, and Public Space in Latin America (Routledge 2008, 2015). Irazábal has worked as consultant, researcher, and/or professor in multiple countries of the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

10/30/2018

Book La Politica de Dar - The Politics of Giving

Please join our Latinx Latin American Studies Program in congratulating our LLAS affiliated faculty Viviana Grieco on the translation of her book, La Politica de Dar en el Virreinatordel Rio de la Plata: Donantes, Pretamistas, Submits y Ciudadanos, into Spanish.

It is coming out with Prometeo Libros, a prominent Spanish language press this fall.

10/19/2018

Please consider joining us for the discussion of topics of primary importance to our Latinx communities in Kansas City and beyond.

10/19/2018

Please consider joining us for this timely and informative discussion about Latin American politics and their US connections.