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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

is writer and translator based in New York City and Cambridge, MA. She has written for The Atlantic and is the senior contributor to This Recording.

Essays & Reviews

Blood and Glory

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioSeptember 11, 2017
After 9/11, the bodies at Ground Zero were made heroic; the immigrant bodies that cleaned them up, less so
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In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
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Do No Harm

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioAugust 10, 2016
When mental health professionals systemically misdiagnose patients of color, treatment looks more like punishment
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Insuring the Dead

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioMay 20, 2014
Inside the business of corpse-repatriation insurance
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Storefront Supernatural

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioOctober 22, 2013
The popularity of botanicas point to the failures of the Catholic Church to properly provide for its own
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Seeing Red

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioDecember 27, 2012
Despite the bleak imaginary landscape of food deserts, urban nutritional politics is all about color.
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