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Culture Clash: Symbolic Capital And The Limits To Open Access Journal Growth In The Humanities And Social Sciences, David Michalski
Culture Clash: Symbolic Capital And The Limits To Open Access Journal Growth In The Humanities And Social Sciences, David Michalski
SJSU Open Access Conference
Each year brings more open access peer-review journals to the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite this proliferation, for-profit publishers continue to dominate, and hold the most prestigious journals in their portfolios, pushing the tipping point imagined by open access advocates seemingly out of reach. This project examines the social life of academic publishing to better understand the obstacles preventing a more robust turn to open access, one that does not simply mean more journals, but one that sees the more prestigious journals opting for an open access platform.
Drawing on the work of cultural sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, I examine …
University Scholar Series: Natalie Boero, Natalie C. Boero
University Scholar Series: Natalie Boero, Natalie C. Boero
University Scholar Series
How and Why Obesity Has Emerged as a Public Health Concern
On March 20, 2013 Natalie Boero spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Ellen Junn at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Natalie Boero talked about how and why obesity emerged as a public health concern and her book "Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American 'Obesity Epidemic,'" which examines how and why obesity emerged as a public health concern and national obsession in recent years. It enters the world of bariatric surgeries and diet programs to show how common expectations of what bodies …
Contributors, Tiffany Lopez
Whose Latino/A Studies? Teaching Latinidad As A Güero On A Predominantly Anglo, Socially Conservative Campus, Justin Garcia
Whose Latino/A Studies? Teaching Latinidad As A Güero On A Predominantly Anglo, Socially Conservative Campus, Justin Garcia
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Towards Implementing Culturally Relevant Curriculum: How 17 Words Inspired Research, Dagoberto Eli Ramirez
Towards Implementing Culturally Relevant Curriculum: How 17 Words Inspired Research, Dagoberto Eli Ramirez
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Community-Based Projects And The Performing And Visual Arts: Promoting Cultural Dialogue, Elena De Costa
Community-Based Projects And The Performing And Visual Arts: Promoting Cultural Dialogue, Elena De Costa
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Pedagogical Conocimientos: Self And Other In Interaction, Josephine Mendez-Negrete
Pedagogical Conocimientos: Self And Other In Interaction, Josephine Mendez-Negrete
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Juntos Podemos: Devising Theater As Community-Based Pedagogy, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Juntos Podemos: Devising Theater As Community-Based Pedagogy, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Polite Shakespeare Only: Teaching Chican@ Texts And The Tempest In Texas After The Attempts To Dismantle Mexican American Studies Programs, Britt Harraway
Polite Shakespeare Only: Teaching Chican@ Texts And The Tempest In Texas After The Attempts To Dismantle Mexican American Studies Programs, Britt Harraway
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Five Strands - Poem, Marianita Escamilla
Five Strands - Poem, Marianita Escamilla
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Subverting The Telenovela: Redefining Gender In Cisneros’S “Woman Hollering Creek” And Islas’S "The Rain God", Marina Malli
Subverting The Telenovela: Redefining Gender In Cisneros’S “Woman Hollering Creek” And Islas’S "The Rain God", Marina Malli
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
¡Viva La Vida!, Javier Villarreal
¡Viva La Vida!, Javier Villarreal
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Américo Paredes And His Audiences, Lyon Rauthbun
Américo Paredes And His Audiences, Lyon Rauthbun
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Play Selection In The Department Of Speech And Drama At Pan American University In The 1970s And 1980s: Twenty Years Of Excluding Latino Plays, Eric Wiley
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
“How To Tame A Wild Tongue”: Gloria Anzaldúa’S Borderlands/La Frontera And The 1960s Era Speech Test And Speech Classes At Pan American College, Deborah Cole, Rob Johnson
“How To Tame A Wild Tongue”: Gloria Anzaldúa’S Borderlands/La Frontera And The 1960s Era Speech Test And Speech Classes At Pan American College, Deborah Cole, Rob Johnson
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Over Both Edges: Coyotaje, Militarization And Liminality In Everyday Life On Ranchos Along The South Texas-Mexican Border, Lupe Flores
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Older Mexican Americans’ Perceptions Of Mental Distress, Iran Barrera, John Gonzalez
Older Mexican Americans’ Perceptions Of Mental Distress, Iran Barrera, John Gonzalez
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Women’S Grassroots Revitalization Of South El Paso: La Mujer Obrera’S Challenge To Gentrification And Urban Neglect, Joel Zapata
Women’S Grassroots Revitalization Of South El Paso: La Mujer Obrera’S Challenge To Gentrification And Urban Neglect, Joel Zapata
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
Introduction, Tiffany Lopez
Forward, Sonia Hernandez, Marci Mcmahon
Forward, Sonia Hernandez, Marci Mcmahon
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
This special issue of Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands highlights a series of essays and creative work presented at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco conference at the University of Texas, Pan American in the Río Grande Valley in South Texas in February 2013. We are excited by the quality of the essays in this special issue, and we encourage scholars and activists in the Chicana/o and Latina/o studies community to engage with the scholarship and creative work in this volume. A print copy will be available sometime this August. The Mexican American …