GOOD DOCS
Selections from the award-winning collection of documentaries that do good in the world
Catholic and Indigenous
Theologian Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo, anthropologists Dr. Valentina Napolitano and Dr. Kristin Norget discuss reconciliation, Indigenous Peoples, and the Catholic Church
Will New Mexico Sing Their Spanish in Heaven?
Christian Silva on embodiment, prayer, and Spanish-nuevomexicano
Intervenxions
Selections from the online publication of The Latinx Project at NYU
Penitential Pilgrimage
Anthropologists Dr. Valentina Napolitano and Dr. Kristin Norget on Pope Francis, reconciliation, and the state
The Tip of the Pyramid
El Librotraficante Tony Diaz presents excerpts from his new book on Cultivating Community Cultural Capital
Thinking from Latin America
Stephen Di Trolio Coakley and Dr. Rafael Vizcaíno discuss liberation philosophy and anti-fetishism
Pensar desde Latinoamérica
Stephen Di Trolio Coakley y el Dr. Rafael Vizcaíno hablan sobre la filosofía de liberación y el anti-fetichismo
The Needle and the Thread
Victor Mancilla and Jim Nikas on their forthcoming film about the Jumano-Apache people and 17th-century Franciscan nun Sor María de Ágreda
Xitlali Zaragoza, Curandera
Reyes Ramírez presents a story excerpt from his debut collection The Book of Wanderers
Return to Padre
Journalist and anthropologist Cecilia Ballí tells a legal and personal history of South Texas
Calavera Images and José Guadalupe Posada
Jim Nikas digs up how the 19th-century Mexican graphic artist popularized the skull imagery associated with Día de Los Muertos
A Coyolxauhqui Imperative
César “CJ” Baldelomar ruminates on writing, memory, and death
Christianity, Empire and the Spirit
Dr. Neomi De Anda talks to Dr. Néstor Medina about his book on (re)configuring faith and the cultural
Symbols of Latinidades in the 2020 Election
Dr. Michael DeAnda decodes signs of the times
Embroidery at the Hearth of Faith
Poet Natalia Treviño cross-stitches the sacred and the ordinary
Revelation in Aztlán
Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo and Dr. Néstor Medina discuss scriptures, utopias, and the Chicano Movement
Transoccidentalism
Dr. Oscar García-Johnson and Dr. Kay Higuera Smith look beyond the west-side story
Choosing the Jesus Way
Dr. Sophia Magallanes and Dr. Angela Tarango discuss Native American Pentecostals and the fight for the “indigenous principle”
Central Americans in Diaspora: Identity, Education, and Visibility
Dr. Lauren Frances Guerra sees points of light beyond El Norte