To elaborate the central role of cultural artifacts, we analyze two that played significant roles in the contemporary Mexican social movement sector: the Estela de Luz and online posting of #YoSoy132. We discuss the (1) temporal processes of how an object becomes an artifact; (2), the ...
Among the many interesting facets of Mexico’s cultural geography are the subtle differences between beliefs in Mexico and similar beliefs in the USA and Canada. For example, 28 December, Day of the Holy Innocents (Día de los Santos Inocentes) is the Mexican equivalent of north-of-the-border...
I’ve collected artifacts (posters, videos, slogans, images) from our worldwide response to the pandemic, and urge you to log intoCultural Detective Online,bring up the Values Lenses for the cultures in question, and use those values to help decipher the cultural influences at play in the me...
The sample included Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Central Americans, and Cubans among other ethnic identities. Using the Survey on the Application of Masculinity and Gender Role Identity Among Latino Men, the researchers examined machismo utilizing the Macho Scale, the Gender Role Conflict Scale, ...
Fránquiz, Ortiz, and Lara make clear that while funds of knowledge are collected through ethnographic home visits, “the strategy for building up funds of identity requires opportunities to create and share identity artifacts in school and after-school contexts that allow teachers to identify skills...
it is the psychological site where individuals can resist and re-narrate constraining cultural scripts about who they are and can be. For example, Valle and Covarrubias (2024) documented how, in the space of nepantla, five low-income, first-generation Mexican American women resisted racist, sexi...
“the Mexican manager needs to be more considerate of others and trust that his and his company’s welfare will be looked after.” Both of these recommendations are within the realm of possibility, both are achievable by Japanese and Mexicans of certain personality types or personal discipline, ...
When I did research among undocumented Mexican immigrant college students, I recognized that my informants’ legal status put them at considerable risk. I took care to use pseudonyms for all of the informants, even when writing field notes. In my writing, I changed the names of the informant...
sixteenth to eighteenth century Spain, Mexico, and the Andes [123]. The isotope measurements demonstrate that also silver isotopes has a large potential for provenance studies. Pre-1492 European silver can be distinguished from Mexican and Andean metal. European silver dominated Spanish coinage until ...
In my case, I was interested in how undocumented Mexican immigrant youth in Minnesota formed a sense of identity while living in a society that used a variety of dehumanizing labels such as illegal and alien to refer to them. That was my research “problem,” and it oriented and guided my...