Events and Resources

Quechua In Hollywood · Talk with Américo Mendoza–Mori · October 14, 2020

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LASC hosted Dr. Américo Mendoza–Mori (University of Pennsylvania Quechua program) for a discussion on representations of Andean Indigenous culture in mainstream U.S. films and what this means for Latinx identity in the United States. Here, Dr. Mendoza–Mori analyzes Dora and the Lost City of Gold, the 2019 live action adaptation of the Nickelodeon cartoon Dora the Explorer.