How does Bitcoin work in a country ill-prepared to deal with cryptocurrencies? The LMC tries to find out by speaking with professor Eric Vazquez on the dark side of cryptocurrency as it makes its way into Latin America. Eric Vazquez is an assistant professor in American Studies & Latinx Studies @ the University of Iowa.
Category Archives: Beyond Latinx
June 25th, 2021: Undocumented & LGBTQ pt 12, Dominican Edition
The LMC wraps up Pride Month 2021 by spending the hour with Prof Ana-Maurine Lara for a Dominican edition to our Undocumented & LGBTQ series. Ana-Maurine Lara is an assistant professor in the department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies @ the University of Oregon. Author of, “Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic.”
June 18th, 2021: Undocumented & LGBTQ pt 11, Miami Edition
This latest edition of our Undocumented & LGBTQ series takes us to Miami as we spend the hour with Julio Capo Jr on the rich history of Miami’s LGBTQ community and its influence on the city today. Julio Capo Jr is the author of, “Welcome To Fairyland: Queer Miami
Before 1940.”