Latin America
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Tracy K. Smith: Photo of Sugar Cane Plantation Workers, Jamaica, 1891
May 6, 2014 -
Poet Tracy K. Smith responds to a historic photograph of Jamaican sugar plantation workers, on the occasion of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory. More -
Edwidge Danticat: The Price of Sugar
May 5, 2014 -
To accompany artist Kara Walker’s first large-scale public project, A Subtlety…, presented by Creative Time at Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory from May 10 to July 6, novelist Edwidge Danticat explores labor conditions on contemporary sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic. More -
Venezuela: Where the Wealthy Stir Violence While the Poor Build a New Society
April 28, 2014 -
Documentary filmmaker Dario Azzellini argues the protests in Venezuela represent a vicious attack on the country’s social progress under Hugo Chávez, spurred on by anti-Chavista politicians in affluent regions. More -
Tough Love at Mexico City’s Casa Xochiquetzal
April 22, 2014 -
The photographer Bénédicte Desrus and journalist Celia Gómez Ramos paint a portrait of an unconventional Mexico City retirement home that “provides a space to age with dignity for a group of vulnerable women who are often invisible to society at large.” More -
Postcards from Venezuela
April 21, 2014 -
As violent anti-government protests rage on in Venezuela, artist Esperanza Mayobre shares a set of postcards with images, anecdotes and reports she describes as “stories told to myself in order to explain my lost country.” More