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Volume 7.2Spring 2025

Volume 7.2 (Spring 2025) showcases independent undergraduate scholarship and reflections from Columbia and Barnard. This issue features an interview with former Editor-in-Chief Alejandra Quintana Arocho, alongside rigorous student research spanning queer representation in Cuban cinema, masculinity in 'Un perro andaluz', postcolonial Latin American aesthetics, the sociology of Argentine rock, and U.S. foreign policy toward Chile.

Letter from the Editors-in-Chief

Isabella Garcia Bernstein & Lizdanelly López Chiclana

Celebrating Portales: An Interview with former Editor-in-Chief Alejandra Quintana Arocho

Lizdanelly López Chiclana

Oppression or Acceptance, Machismo Remains: A Comparative Analysis of Queer Representation in Cuban Literature & Film

Nelson Mills

La represión de la sexualidad masculina en “Un perro andaluz”

Naomi Kennel

Author of the Quixote: Perspectives on Aesthetic Objectivity and Cultural Development in Postcolonial Latin America

Leo Hickey

El gran rechazo: Un análisis sociológico del surgimiento del rock beat en Argentina y su rol actual en Buenos Aires

Matthew Adams

Human Rights and Hypocrisy: U.S. Policy Toward Chile From 1973-1988

Talia Marash

Penned by Portales: A Call for Community by Our Community

Isabel Mavrides-Calderon

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