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Featuring works from artists in Latin America and its diasporas, Pop América intervenes in long-held conceptions of Pop Art’s geographic consolidations in the US and UK. Pop América’s centerpiece is ...

For John Leguizamo, his 2017 one-man Broadway play “Latin History for Morons” was his introduction into addressing and tackling the “erasure of our Latin history.” Now in “American Historia: The ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Lightning Jay is an assistant professor of Teaching, ...