“It is time to begin a process of healing for the victims of Chávez’s violence, and for the full story of the UFW to become public knowledge...
Department of Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies
About the image: José Clemente Orozco, The Epic of American Civilization (detail), 1932-1934, fresco. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College; P.934.13.
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Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies (LALACS) is an interdisciplinary program. LALACS offers the opportunity to take courses in the social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary studies that examine borders and borderlands, race and representation, film and media, literature, visual arts and art history, food systems and climate, and history across the Americas.
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2/13/2026
From cult classics to hidden gems, professor Marcela Di Blasi shares novels that explore love, resistance, and reimagined futures.
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1/12/2026
LALACS Visiting Professor Peter DeShazo '69, a former career Foreign Service officer who served in Caracas, spoke on Thursday about the geopolitics in Latin America.
