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Monday, August 24, 2009

Eduardo Galeano on NPR

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The Book Hugo Chavez Gave Obama Eduardo Galeano's Latin American History book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Songs of Resistance

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Open Mic to Benefit Raza Studies I believe that as a part of a Raza Studies student's senior project, she organized this open mic--I don...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Tutoring Center Video

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Dedication to the Cause As a TA and writing tutor while earning my Master's at Chapman University, I took part in a training video that ...
Friday, August 7, 2009

Jimmy Baca, Pedagogy of a Poet

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UNM College of Education Professor Diane Torres-Velasquez discusses teaching style of Jimmy Santiago Baca So I was watching the 'Makin...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

New Start Summer '09

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My New Start class It's been a few weeks since the end of the summer bridge class I taught, but I remembered I had a few (blurry) pics f...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Never too late for good Summer reading

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Latino Superheroes ...No, not another post about Edward James Olmos or Sotomayor Finally got a little bit of time to catch up on my summer r...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The Existential Dilemma

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Purgatorio So I'm in that state of academic limbo after having finished New Start with GEAR UP and the fall semester on the not too di...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Academic Outreach

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GEARing UP This fall, I'll be taking part in the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs here in the Tucson an...
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Stereotype Threat

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New Start Academic Conference The summer bridge program I'm teaching in had an academic conference this week and I hope to have some pic...
Friday, July 3, 2009

Critically Conscious Pop Culture

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Rage Inside the Machine In my on-going pursuit of integrating popular culture into curriculum that addresses critical consciousness, I sho...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Funny or Further Perpetuation of Negative Stereotypes?

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Latino Comedy Project So I'm probably just opening myself up for an 'academics can't take a joke' criticism, but a Mexican A...
Friday, June 12, 2009

Support Sotomayor

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The Common Touch Okay, so the selling point for Sotomayor has some negative connotation to it, but I guess we need to focus on the connotati...