Roma, Alfonso Cuarón

Roma, Alfonso Cuarón

This movie can be used to discuss gender roles, social class, race issues, among other. It can also be also to discuss the topic of “housing” in beginner courses.
Manos de mendigo, Osvaldo Guaysamín

Manos de mendigo, Osvaldo Guaysamín

“Manos de mendigo” is a collection of 13 works that express 13 different feelings. More information about it: Tras las manos de Guayasamín https://web.archive.org/web/20190830205954/http://www.guayasamin.org/index.php/oswaldo-guayasamin/biografia...

La Rebelión, Joe Arroyo

The song tells the story of a slave who rebels against a Spanish slave owner who hit the slaves’ wife. The song repeats that in the streets to this day, you can still hear the slave shout “no le pegue a la Negra”, which roughly translates to “don’t hit the black...
Juanito Laguna going to the factory

Juanito Laguna going to the factory

Antonio Berni created the character of Juanito, protagonist of a narrative cycle that took the shape of paintings, collages, assemblages, and woodcuts produced between 1960 and ’77. Juanito is a boy who left the countryside to find work in Buenos Aires and ends up...