The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

<strong>Nicolle Alzamora is a Panamanian author and PhD researcher in Latin American cultural studies at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on cultural memory in Panamanian fiction about dictatorship and the US invasion and its relation to the country’s narratives as a site of transit. </strong>

Nicolle Alzamora

The Diasporic Worlds of Panama’s West Indian Women: On Joan Flores-Villalobos’s “The Silver Women”

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Nicolle Alzamora is a Panamanian author and PhD researcher in Latin American cultural studies at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on cultural memory in Panamanian fiction about dictatorship and the US invasion and its relation to the country’s narratives as a site of transit. 

Nicolle Alzamora

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The Diasporic Worlds of Panama’s West Indian Women: On Joan Flores-Villalobos’s “The Silver Women”