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Bobby Vasquez & Rudy Oliva, Csusb Dec 2013

Bobby Vasquez & Rudy Oliva, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Dr. Ernie F. Garcia, Csusb Dec 2013

Dr. Ernie F. Garcia, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Mayor Frank Gonzales, Csusb Nov 2013

Mayor Frank Gonzales, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Boys Scout Troop 45 (Part 2), Csusb Nov 2013

Boys Scout Troop 45 (Part 2), Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Ralph Medina & Ruben Aguilera, Csusb Nov 2013

Ralph Medina & Ruben Aguilera, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Luis Lopez Contreras, Csusb Nov 2013

Luis Lopez Contreras, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Boys Scout Troop 45 (Part 1), Csusb Nov 2013

Boys Scout Troop 45 (Part 1), Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Mayor Abe Beltran, Csusb Nov 2013

Mayor Abe Beltran, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Sal & Francis Ayala, Csusb Nov 2013

Sal & Francis Ayala, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Adam Ornelas, Csusb Nov 2013

Adam Ornelas, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.


Atlantic Threads: Singer In Spain And Mexico, 1860-1940, Paula A. De La Cruz-Fernández May 2013

Atlantic Threads: Singer In Spain And Mexico, 1860-1940, Paula A. De La Cruz-Fernández

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the role of Singer in the modernization of sewing practices in Spain and Mexico from 1860 to 1940. Singer marketing was founded on gendered views of women’s work and gendered perceptions of the home. These connected with sewing practices in Spain and Mexico, where home sewing remained economically and culturally important throughout the 1940s. "Atlantic Threads" is the first study of the US-owned multinational in the Hispanic World. I demonstrate that sewing practices, and especially practices related to home sewing that have been considered part of the private sphere and therefore not an important historical matter, contributed …


Language, Politics, And History: An Introductory Essay, José Del Valle Jan 2013

Language, Politics, And History: An Introductory Essay, José Del Valle

Publications and Research

This book chapter examines different articulations of language and history and introduces a new configuration that focuses on the political dimension of language.


Resisting Colonialism: Cultural Syncretism, Indigenous Agency And Exploition In Colonial Potosí, Isaac Galef-Brown Jan 2013

Resisting Colonialism: Cultural Syncretism, Indigenous Agency And Exploition In Colonial Potosí, Isaac Galef-Brown

Senior Independent Study Theses

I analyze the transition indigenous peoples made from their native Andean communities to the Spanish colonial city of Potosí­ in modern day Bolivia. Although most historic study focuses on the infamous mita system of forced indigenous labor, I study the transition through the indigenous lens to find example of their economic gains as well as the cultural interactions they had with Spaniards. This alternative focus gives Potosí's past a very different characterization, defined less by exploitation and more by cultural syncretism.