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Incomplete Latinx Stories of Diseño Gráfico/ Borderlands/ La Frontera

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Arte y Diseño Latinx: Comunicación Cotidiana 

Ramon Tejada, Carlos Avila
KEY WORDS:  Deseño Latinx, Comunication Cotidiana, Charla, Mexico, Dominican Republic, location,  language

Some Theoretical Considerations in Reading Latin American Design History

Ahmed Ansari
KEY WORDS:  Design History,  philosophers, critical theorists, writers, visual cultures, Latin America

Pecha Kucha: Latinx Diaspora in America

Pilar Castillo, Shannon Doronio (Chavez), Roberto Rodriguez, MJ Balvanera
KEY WORDS:  Latinx designers,  Plantation to Paradise, Caribbean Identity, Colonization, Maria de Los Angeles, Mexican Design History

Diseñando Identidad: Community Education, Design, and Politics in Puerto Rico

Laura Rossi García, Jason Alejandro
KEY WORDS:  Latinx designers,  Puerto Rico, DIVEDCO, Americanization, Puerto Rican 20th century (typo)graphic design history

On Queerness & Race in Brazilian Art & Design

Anna Parisi, Juan Pablo Rahal, Silas Munro
KEY WORDS:  Clash and Coalesce, queerness, racial democracy, Manifesto Antropófago, O Lampião da Esquina

In/dependence: An Incomplete Survey of Cuban Design

Ana Llorente, Elaine Lopez
KEY WORDS:  Cuban Graphic Design, Politics, Geography, Nationalism, Inventiveness, Economics, Oppression, Resistance, Liberation

Latinx Auto-Ethnography in educational spaces

Gaby Hernandez
KEY WORDS:  Otherness, Latin American/Latinx Identities, Pluriversal, Decolonial Economics, Design Canons

Caribbean Contrast: Puerto Rican and Cuban carteles and their representation of distinct political relationships with the United States

José R. Mendéndez
KEY WORDS:  Social, Political, Cultural, Economic Communication, Carteles, Sister Islands, Embargo against Cuba

On Typography and Language in Peru

Juan Villanueva
KEY WORDS:  Visual Culture of Peru, Pre-Columbian, Resistance, Revolution, Quest for Liberation

Otros Susurros Desde los Andes

Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizary
KEY WORDS:  Dingbat, Journey, Abya Yala, Visual Chronicles, Semiotic, Morphologica, Español


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