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Rodolfo Acuña: Put Your Mexican In AZ's Face

April 29, 2010
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A new Twitter friend (@Peta_de_Atzlan) sent me a link  to historian Rodolf Acuña’s response to the calls for boycotting Arizona. He draws on Linda Greenhouse’s article in the NYTimes that I pointed to on Tuesday to say that a boycott may not be the best way of gaining political support and/or pressuring Arizona to change the law. Technorati Tags: [...]

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Economic Boycott the Wrong Idea?

April 27, 2010

Today in the NYTimes, Linda Greenhouse writes a compelling article against an economic boycott of Arizona saying, “a boycott is a blunt instrument that can hurt innocent business owners and their employees,” (Opinionator). What she does not acknowledge is the fact that many of these “innocent” business owners are themselves supporters of SB1070. She does [...]

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Newberry Library Presents: Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies

April 22, 2010

I just found an announcement for a Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies and thought I would post it because it is incredibly important to explore more questions about the products and consequences of creating borders. It also informed me of four schools with Mexican America or Latino Studies programs. Northwestern University’s Program in Latina [...]

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The Name Change Continues

April 18, 2010

On Wednesday of last week, the UH-Downtown administration and public affairs offices held open meetings to discuss the results from the research conducted by the STAMATS research firm. I won’t recant the proceeding of the whole meeting because that can be found in my Twitter feed. I do have a response to the two proposed [...]

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Sign the Petition for National Cesar Chavez Day

March 25, 2010

The fact that the Texas State Board of education is running rough shod over culturally important parts of our history should be reason enough, but if you need a few reasons to sign the National Cesar Chavez Day Petition they are not hard to find. Aside from being a hero for millions of farm workers [...]

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The Unreal Manifesto

March 12, 2010

One of the courses I am taking, this last semester of my undergraduate career, is titled Modernity & the Avant Garde, and it is one of the most interesting and powerful subjects I’ve studied so far. We began with Charles Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen (1869) and “The Painter of Modern Life”. Moving into the 20th century, [...]

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Alternatives to Grad school for the unemployed graduate:

June 9, 2009

So in Seth’s Blog (no clue who he is or why he’s important) he gives a few ideas for the unemployed college graduate to keep busy after college. At UH-D (I may be wrong) our students usually have less troubles finding a job because they are already working, but it’s a helpful list either way. [...]

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Academic Conference Alerts Website

February 26, 2009

I’ve been thinking about different ways to network myself into Grad school, and one of the way’s I’m doing that is to start attending academic conferences. I am presenting a paper at this year’s UHD gender conference, Policing Gender, but I hope to start attending conferences around the country. These are not that easy to [...]

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