This paper aims to examine several narratives that have perpetuated the denial of racism throughout Venezuelan history, analyze the impact of President Hugo Chávez's discourse and policy implementation in regards to racial inequality, and emphasize the importance of addressing the topic of race in Venezuela. This research was conducted as my final Capstone project for the International Development Studies major at Brown.
This paper explores the ways in which Carolina Hick's illustrations and personal experiences fall into the project of Third World Feminism, through Gloria Anzaldúa's concept of nepantla, Audre Lorde's analysis of the erotic, and Juana María Rodríguez's notions of queer latinidad.
In this paper I examine the work of Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo, in conversation with the definition of feminicide that Rosa Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano present in A Cartography of Feminicide in the Américas.