Student, Writer, and Cultural Critic
This semester I have the pleasure of chairing the Education panel for the Center for Mexican American Studies Spring 2013 Symposium. The Mexican American Archival Enterprise at the Benson Latin American Collection: An Historical Appraisal symposium will be held Thursday and Friday, April 18 & 19, 2013. Each panel will be chaired by a graduate [...]
Via H-Net Grad: The Harry Middleton Fellowship supports scholarly work in Presidential studies and honors former LBJ Library director and Johnson speechwriter Harry Middleton. Fellowship recipients must conduct research at the LBJ Library and at least one other facility of the National Archives and Records Administration. Post-doctoral fellows may apply, but preference is given to [...]
This is by no means a comprehensive list of resources for oral historians, but it offers a great place to start. Oral History Association Oral History: Defined Oral History: Centers and Collections Oral History in the Digital Age Oral History in Education Human Subjects and IRB Review Bibliography: Historians and Institutional Review Boards H-Net Oral History [...]
I received the following notice from the NACCS-Tejas email list. I think I might apply. The Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues (Barcelona, Spain) is now accepting applications for its two-week summer institute (TAUGHT IN ENGLISH) open to advanced undergraduate/graduate students, post-doctoral candidates, junior faculty and professionals on decolonial thought and knowledge. DECOLONIZING [...]
This week I had the pleasure of presenting my paper “‘Son[s] of the Great Mother Whore’: The Failures of Revolutionary Masculinity in Jose Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho” at the Western Literature Association 47th Annual Conference. I presented alongside colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin English Department, and was honored by Dr. Domino Perez serving [...]
The wrecking ball smashes into the brown face of the spirit of the wind as the crane squeals like La Llorona. All-the-while, people of East Austin stand around watching the destruction of a cultural center of the neighborhood. Gilberto Rivera’s 1984 film, “We Will Always Be Here,” chronicles the destruction of the building that housed Juarez [...]
I will be submitting to the 2013 NACCS Tejas Foco Conference being held at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas. See the following Call for Papers if you would like to submit a paper to the NACCS Tejas Foco. Chican@ Studies ¡Ahora! Community Based Pedagogies, Scholarship, and Activism University of Texas—Pan American [...]
The outstanding faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, in conjunction with the Center for Mexican American Studies and the University of Texas Libraries, produce incredibly important work documenting the experiences of Mexican American and Latin@ people in the United States. The Voces Oral History Project, under the direction of professor Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, is [...]
I know the headline sounds like I’m establishing a claim of authenticity over the term/tactic of occupying, but my point is to raise awareness to the historical context of such terms and tactics. One thing that I was most disillusioned about, in terms of the recent efforts to #Occupy, is the lack of historical understanding of what [...]
From today’s LLILAS Conference keynote address hosted by Dr. Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez and featuring Chingo Bling. Some of the topics discussed were the You Can’t Deport Us All album and marketing campaign, nalga time, and just straight-up hustlin’.
I am a second year Master of Arts student in Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. You can find me here or at my culture and arts blog: FunkNBeans.com.
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