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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. What is solidarity? Perhaps above all, it is to be lived.

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Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

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Her cowboy outfit at the border fence—a site of cruelty, dispossession, and social and ecological genocide—directly referenced the frontier and its forced ownership by the US government. Sinema’s border outfit, indexing the cowboy, attempts to frame herself within this tradition.