In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

The core curriculum of the Latin American and Latino Studies major provides a solid foundation of knowledge, a rigorous interdisciplinary methodology, and language proficiency in Spanish ... and "Race ...

IN ITS early stages the Spanish civil war awakened loud repercussions ... it always is hard to draw sufficiently general conclusions to cover all of the Latin American countries. The rule holds good ...

"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

The country's most important protests and events have taken place here, including the beginning of the May Revolution, when Argentina declared independence from Spanish colonial rule on May 25 ...