Arlene Díaz is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University. She has published numerous articles on the history of Venezuela, the Spanish Caribbean, and Brazil, and is currently working on a new book about the Spanish-Cuban-American War. Her recent teaching focuses on slave societies in the Caribbean and Latin America, which she examines in dialogue with notions of coloniality, Eurocentered capitalism and racial systems, and the gendered control of labor and resources.

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This Sawyer Seminar is funded by the Mellon Foundation.