LibGuides: INTS 130: Intro to Latin American Studies: Social Justice

Fernando Mierelles, “Cidade de Deus (City of God)" 2002

City of God, 10 years on
By Donna Bowater in BBC News (Aug 2013)
Favelas and Ghettos: Race and Class in Rio de Janeiro and New York City
By Ney dos Santos Oliveira in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 23, No. 4, The "Urban Question" in Latin America (Autumn, 1996), pp. 71-89.
Rio's Favelas in Recent Fiction and Film: Commonplaces of Urban Segregation
By Marta Peixoto in PMLA, Vol. 122, No. 1, Special Topic: Cities (Jan., 2007), pp. 170-178.

Women's Political Participation in the Dominican Republic: The Case of the Mirabal Sisters
By Nancy Robinson in Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2/3, Unraveling Gender, Development and Civil Society in the Caribbean (June-Sept. 2006), pp. 172-183.
Talking Back to El Jefe: Genre, Polyphony, and Dialogic Resistance in Julia Alvarez's "In the Time of Butterflies"
By Charlotte Rich in MELUS, Vol. 27, No. 4, Varieties of the Ethnic Experience (Winter, 2002), pp. 165-182.
Historiographic Metafiction in "In the Time of the Butterflies"
By Isabel Zakrzewski Brown in South Atlantic Review, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 98-112.

Salvador: A Study of Redemption
By John Devitt in The Furrow, Vol. 38, No. 5 (May, 1987), pp. 325-329.
Liberation and Theology: A Pedagogical Challenge
By Mee-Ae Kim in The History Teacher, Vol. 46, No. 4 (August 2013), pp. 601-612.
Commentary: Armed Conflict and Poverty in Central America: The Convergence of Epidemiology and Human Rights Advocacy
By Paula E. Brentlinger, Miguel A. Hernán in Epidemiology, Vol. 18, No. 6 (Nov., 2007), pp. 673-677.

Growing up in Guerrilla Camps: The Long-Term Impact of Being a Child Soldier in El Salvador's Civil War
By Julia Dickson-Gómez in Ethos, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Dec., 2002), pp. 327-356.
When Is a Kid a Kid? Negotiating Children's Rights in El Salvador's Civil War
By Kay Read in History of Religions, Vol. 41, No. 4, Essays on the Occasion of Frank Reynolds's Retirement (May, 2002), pp. 391-409.

Literature as Survival: Allende's "The House of the Spirits"
By Peter G. Earle, Allende in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 28, No. 4, After the Boom: Recent Latin American Fiction (Winter, 1987), pp. 543-554.
They Dance Alone: Deaths and the Disappeared in Contemporary Chile
By David R. Davis, Michael D. Ward in The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 449-475.
"Parenting the Text": Female Creativity and Dialogic Relationships in Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus
By Doris Meyer in Hispania, Vol. 73, No. 2 (May, 1990), pp. 360-365.

"When the Mountains Tremble": An Interview with Pamela Yates
By Alan Rosenthal & Pamela Yates in Film Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 2-10.
Introduction
By Jan Rus in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 6, If Truth Be Told: A Forum on David Stoll's "Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans" (Nov., 1999), pp. 5-14.