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Reconfiguration Without Transformation: Decolonization and Education Reform in Morales-Era Bolivia (Alyna Johnson)
Introduction Bolivia’s education system has long illuminated broader struggles over identity, power, and nationhood. Historically, education functioned as a tool of assimilation through castellanización, the imposition of Spanish…
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Between Liberation and Continuity: Anzaldúa’s New Mestiza and the Legacies of la Raza Cósmica (Riya Johnson)
Introduction The idea of Latin America as a geopolitical region–a group of countries linked by shared historical, cultural, and political characteristics–was constructed to promote the vision of a…
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The Persistence of Ladino Racial Ideology in The Nine Guardians (Alyna Johnson)
Introduction In Rosario Castellanos’ The Nine Guardians, Ladino authority declines as agrarian and educational reforms as well as emerging Indigenous political consciousness threaten the traditional hacienda hierarchy, yet…
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Beyond Documentation: Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Survival in Embrace of the Serpent (Alyna Johnson)
Material Records Cannot Preserve Living Knowledge By contrasting Theo’s refusal to abandon his luggage, which reflects his attempt to preserve Indigenous knowledge as material records for Western validation,…
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The Burgess Shale and the Myth of Evolutionary Progress (Alyna Johnson)
Introduction What if the history of life is not a story of predictable linear progress and expansion through time but rather of luck and decimation, and how can…
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