And Deeper Artist Reimagines Famous Historical Figures As Tattooed Rebels Juan Rulfo Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (Spanish: [ˈxwan ˈrulfo] audio ; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer. He...
The health impacts of the strategies women used in response to heightened policing are complex, and deeply intertwined with their social, economic and legal circumstances. Women with more limited social and economic resources and greater vulnerability to immigrant policing (due to either their own stat...
Official figures in countries like Mexico count the number of ‘illiterate’ adults in [the] millions” (p. 21). When illiteracy rhetoric penetrates society and spreads, those deficit ideologies travel with individuals, including into US classrooms. A number of schools in the Midwest serve ...
In the 1970s and early 1980s a significant number of Mexican American women were intrigued, but most often not attracted, by the ideas emerging from the women's movement in the United States. Though, as Maria Gonzalez affirms, it "provided the example and the language with which Hispanic w...
Yes, this picture makes it look like an abbatoir. We hadn't just slaughtered a bull in here, honest. My US$ 10 camera was leaking a bit of light. This is the toilet, shower, and sink in a room atMotel Paraíso,a nice place to stay inTecate. ...
Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens. Fr...
To better understand Frida we must also stop and try to understand Diego. He was larger than life, both in personality and in girth, and associated with famous figures in art and politics. Rivera's large wall works in fresco established the Mexican Mural Renaissance Man and gained him a com...
Mexican women's working and romantic lives were frequent subject matter in early-twentieth-century Mexican American music. Surprisingly, this trend is rendered nearly invisible by the corpus of scholarly work that focuses on the male-centered "heroic corrido," particularly the class and race conflicts...
along with the human misery of the enslaved men and women who cleared and farmed the land. White settlers who moved to the west did not respect the rights of the Indigenous people or Mexican-Americans (those who had received U.S. citizenship at the war’s end) living there, often forcibl...
Among other important organizations are the National Union of Mexican Women, the Women’s Coordinating Committee for the Defense of the Motherland, the Workers’ University, the Permanent Committee for Solidarity with Chile, the Movement in Defense of Peace, and the Mexico-USSR Institute of Cultural...