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Ice, Genesis Montalvo

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Commonly known as ICE, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement works to monitor the level of illegal migration to the United States. They also are in charge of at least 40% of deportation of innocent, non-criminal immigration violators. At times, the children of these immigrants are born in the United States. As US citizens, ICE cannot deport them without violating their rights, resulting in the separation of families. This poem speaks of a young child whose mother was deported by ICE and the yearning of wanting to know where the mother is. The mix of English and Spanish reinforces the …

The Beauty Within Us, Areli C. Hernandez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

This piece of prose, inspired by Chapter 23 of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, tells the story of a simple, yet vivacious get-together of migrant Latino workers, exploring the beauty within us--members of the migrant farm worker community.

Hamilton, Democracy, And Theatre In America, Patricia Herrera

Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications

I, along with University of Richmond professors Lázaro Lima and Laura Browder, received an National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association Latino Americans grant this year to organize the Latinos in Richmond program, which coincided with two classes that we taught this spring: the Tocqueville Seminar “Performing Latino USA: Democracy, Demography, and Equality” and the First-Year Seminar “Telling Richmond’s Latino Stories: A Community Documentary Project.” Since the goal of both courses was to explore how Latinos—the nation’s largest “minority” group in a representative democracy like America­—is also the most underrepresented, I was interested in understanding Hamilton through …

A Linguistic Comparison: Stress-Timed And Syllable-Timed Languages And Their Impact On Second Language Acquisition, Madeline M. Conlen

Honors College Theses

Acquisition of a second language can be a challenging task because no two languages are alike in their structure, syllabification, pronunciation, rhythm, etc. Also, after speaking one language for any amount of time, the speaker becomes accustomed to the specific qualities of that language; therefore, learning to speak another language takes extra effort because it is essentially rewiring the brain to think differently in many ways. One important element of language is prosody, or the patterns of stress and intonation in language (Dilley et al 237). The subsector of prosody that is to be studied is rhythm, explicitly isochrony and …

Intercultural Hierarchy Reinforced Through North American Voluntourism Efforts In Latin America And The Caribbean, Nancy Michelle Ford

Student Scholarship

In this thesis, my goal is to share the insight I have gleaned from my academic, professional and personal involvement in the region. The most dominant theme I have observed is the rising trend of North American volunteer tourism (also referred to as “voluntourism”) in LAC and unanticipated consequences it involves. This trend reinforces an intercultural hierarchy, which will be the focus of my study.

I will begin with an overview of the intercultural, hierarchical mentality and explain two key aspects it involves: the North American “Planner” or “fix-it” tendencies toward the region, and the region’s developed dependence on North …

Guatemala: Modernización, Mujer Y Salud Pública A Mediados Del Siglo Xx. Una Lectura De Azul Y Roca De Walda Valenti Y Evangelina Va Al Vampo Y Emilia De Teresa Arévalo, Claudia García

Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty Publications

Ana María Rodas (1937), Isabel Garma (1940-98), Carmen Matute (1944), Aída Toledo (1952), Mildred Hernández (1966) y Jessica Masaya (1972) son algunas de las autoras guatemaltecas que empezaron a publicar narrativa en la última década del siglo pasado, disputando espacios en un campo literario hegemonízado por la produccíón masculina, al que las mujeres solían acceder más fácilmente por medio de la poesia que del cuento.

Crops Or Crafts? Changes In Land Use In The Imbabura Valley Of Ecuador, Christopher Richard Hair

Master's Theses

In rural societies where urbanization and modernization are contributing to rapid growth, changes in land use can both reflect and bring about broader changes within a community. This study seeks to investigate changes in land use in the Imbabura valley of Ecuador from the perspective of the local inhabitants. To accomplish this, three data collection techniques were employed: repeat photography, ethnographic interviews, and archival research. Repeat photography involves re-photographing historic photographs from the original site. A combination of 35 historic photographs taken in the 1950s were re-photographed during the summer of 2015. The resulting repeat photo pairs were used in …

Festival De Lasa2016: Looking Back, The 60s & 70s / Ayotzinapa, Forced Disappearances / Soberanía Alimentaria, Sustainability, Claudia Ferman, Claudia Ferman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Esta es una edición especial del festival: cuatro días que celebran los 50 años de LASA, y lo hacen mirando hacia atrás, hacia los años turbulentos que dieron nacimiento a nuestra institución (Looking Back: The 60s & 70s); mirando el presente, en la conflictividad que generan sistemas políticos que bajo una institucionalidad de simulacro democrático, perpetúa y multiplica la concentración del poder y el desempoderamiento de los pueblos (Ayotzinapa: Forced Disappearances); y mirando hacia el futuro, documentando la emergencia alimentaria y sanitaria que la agroindustria y sus agrotóxicos están produciendo, así como el enorme potencial social y político que tiene …

Review: Americans In The Treasure House: Travel To Porfirian Mexico And The Cultural Politics Of Empire. By Jason Ruiz, George T. Díaz

History Faculty Publications

Well written and persuasive, Jason Ruiz gives readers a beautiful book on Americans’ literal and figurative image of Mexico under and immediately after Dıaz. A history of pictures rather than a pictorial history, Americans in the Treasure House has great depth and will be useful to scholars of U.S.–Mexican relations, travel, and the gendered politics of empire.

Choral Theatre, Albert Joseph Wolfe Jr.

Dissertations

Jamaica gained its independence from Great Britain in 1962, after some 300 years of colonization. Prior to Independence, the standard arts education curriculum was decidedly British and Western European. That which was labeled Caribbean or Jamaican “folk” by the British was deemed inferior and was not taught, demonstrated, or performed in formal settings. Thus, generations of Jamaicans never observed or imagined a Caribbean aesthetic in the visual and performing arts. Instead, pre-Independence Jamaicans were taught British and Western European music and performed it the “British” way.

Today, Jamaicans boast a number of artistic developments that are instantly recognized across the …

Spanish For Heritage Speakers: Instructional Module #2, Gabriela C. Zapata

Activities and Assignments Collection

This is the second instructional module for the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers at the intermediate level. The outcomes for this module are as follows:

1. Students will be able to understand the way in which a persuasive essay is organized and written;

2. Students will be able to continue applying the rules for the accentuation of palabras esdrújulas and agudas to improve their spelling;

3. Students will be able to understand the rules that govern the present tense in Spanish and why it is the most appropriate tense when writing a persuasive essay.

4. Students will learn the …

La Traducción E Interpretación Como Trasfondo Y Consecuencia En Los Personajes De La Novela "Malinche" De Laura Esquivel, Blanca Jaimes-Luna

Theses and Dissertations

En esta tesis muestro el trasfondo y consecuencia de la función de los intérpretes como mediadores lingüísticos y culturales dentro de la novela histórica Malinche de Laura Esquivel (México, 1950). Se estudia la novela como texto histórico, enfatizando el papel del intérprete como mediador cultural y lingüístico. El apoyo crítico y teórico se fundamenta en Perea, Glantz, Goetz y Baudot, primordialmente. El primer capítulo estudia la función mediadora del intérprete y su función lingüística. El segundo capítulo analiza la empresa española y la conquista de México, destacándose el papel de intérprete que Malinalli- Malinche desempeñó para ellos. El tercer capítulo …

La Incorporación De Los Elementos Del Latín Y Griego En La Enseñanza Del Español En Las Ciencias Médicas: Un Plan Metodológico Experimental [The Incorporation Of Latin And Greek Elements In The Teaching Of Spanish In Medical Sciences: An Experimental Methodological Plan], Jesus Ramos

Theses and Dissertations

The use of greco-latin etymologies in teaching Spanish medical terminology. An experimental methodological approach bases on grammar, history of medicine, physiological concepts. The exploration of the diverse prefixes and suffixes forming medical scientific terminology in medical specialties, the use of words and its context in medicine and related sciences.

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El uso de etimologías grecolatinas en la enseñanza de la terminología médica española. Un enfoque metodológico experimental basado en la gramática, la historia de la medicina, conceptos fisiológicos. La exploración de los diversos prefijos y sufijos que forman la terminología científica médica en las especialidades médicas, el uso de las …

Mapping Borderlands Horror: Tales In Terror, Trauma, And Latinx Immigrant Experiences In Recent Fiction, Cynthia Saldivar

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores how Chicana/o cultural producers redeploy conventions of horror in order to explore the lived experiences of Latinx, particularly in South Texas. To do so, I will examine texts such as Sandra Cisneros's classic 1992 short story "Woman Hollering Creek," Terri de la Peña’s 1996 short story “Refugio” and Christopher Carmona's award-winning 2015 short story "Strange Leaves" and Josefina Lopez’s 2011 play “Detained in the Desert” through the lens of domestic horror. This thesis will demonstrate how the horrific is "differential," that is, how what we consider horrific is thoroughly racialized, gendered, classed, and sexualized. The thesis will …

Añoranza, Victor H. Tijerina

Theses and Dissertations

El objetivo del presente trabajo constituye esta compilación de cuarenta y ocho poemas, la cual lleva por nombre Añoranza, tiene como uno de los principales objetivos invitar al lector a introducirse a la lectura y hacerlo partícipe de ella, y con ello acercar al individuo con los diferentes sujetos, y los cuadros de imágenes que aparecen a lo largo de la colección. Se indicaran algunas influencias de algunos poetas vanguardistas que repercutieron ciertamente en el desarrollo de los poemas. Para contrastar, se presenta la filosofía platónica sobre lo que el filósofo griego considera buena y mala poesía. Del Quijotes resaltan …

La Expresión Y Posición De Los Clíticos En El Español L2 De Hablantes Nativos Del Portugués Brasileño En El Sur De Texas, Mark A. Cisneros

Theses and Dissertations

A pesar de tener sistemas clíticos parecidos, los clíticos del español y del portugués brasileño se presentan y se usan de maneras diferentes y distintas. Este trabajo de investigación analiza la expresión y posición de los clíticos (i.e. los acusativos, dativos, y en perífrasis verbales) en el español L2 de hablantes nativos del portugués brasileño. Los participantes de esta investigación viven en el sur de Texas y tienen diferentes experiencias con el español. Este trabajo de investigación variacionista analiza la relación entre ciertos factores externos e internos con las ocurrencias, o casos, de objeto nulo en la L2 de nueve …

Un Objeto De Deseo, Clara J. O'Rourke

Scholarly Undergraduate Research Journal at Clark (SURJ)

This article evaluates and compares the ways in which women are dehumanized and limited to the role of "objects of desire". The concept of the male gaze is used to depict how women are objectified in La invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco, including it's cinematic interpretation by Emilio Maillé. Ultimately, all authors and directors sexualize female characters by limiting them in passive roles, depicting them as exotic objects in the eyes on the audience, the characters in the stories, and through narration and cinematography. This objectification reinforces passive female roles and a …

Transnational Actors: A Study In International Cinema, Lydia Hartlaub, Carmela Ferradans, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

Oral presentation abstract.

Intersectional Feminism And The Latino Man, Donovan E. Hernandez Garcia

Scholarly and Creative Works Conference (2015 - 2021)

Various groups of people exist, each with their own religions, cultures, and practices that show the ingenuity of humanity. Yet, because of major events throughout human history, such as colonization, a certain societal structure was created to maintain power. Due to colonization, the prolonged exposure to numerous cultures, and the continuation of oppressive systems, people have been forced to band together based on characteristics similar to theirs, be it race, gender, or sexual orientation, creating divisions within society. It is because of such colonial mentality, subliminal and apparent, political and cultural movements, such as Feminism, have been created to combat …

The Mexican Neoliberal State: The Decentralization Of Power And Rise Of Narcotraficantes And Paramilitary Groups, Adrian Bustamante

Student Research Symposium

The purpose of this research is to analyze the interconnections between Mexico’s failed neoliberal state policies, its corrupt military, and the present drug war that plagues the nation. Mexico’s economic transition into a new neoliberal state was supposed to stimulate the economy; however its economic policies backfired, causing an increase in poverty, an upsurge in violence, and instability in its government institutions. By analyzing several recent film documentaries, together with scholarly research, we can see the direct causation of the fall of the neoliberal state and the rise of the drug cartels. My research analyses the documentaries Cartel Land by …