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Santa Barraza, Artist of the Borderlands (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions)
Posted by admin on February 6, 2012
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Moctezuma’s Table (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions)
Posted by admin on January 4, 2012
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Moctezuma’s Table: Rolando Briseno’s Mexican and Chicano Tablescapes (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions)
Posted by admin on December 28, 2011
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The table provides the food that sustains physical life. It is also the setting for people to share the fellowship that sustains cultural, community, and political life.
In the vision of artist Rolando Briseño, food is a powerful metaphor, a way of understanding how culture nurtures the spirit. When cultures collide-as they inevitably do in borderlands settings-food, its preparation, and the rituals surrounding its consumption can preserve meanings and understandings that might otherwise have been lost to the mainstream social narrative.
Briseñoâs exhibit, La Mesa de Moctezuma/Moctezumaâs Table, originally hosted by San Antonioâs Instituto Cultural Mexicano and later by the Instituto de México, Montreal, Canada, brings to vivid life the artistâs conception of food as life source, social symbol, and embodiment of meaning.
Now, editor Norma E. Cantú has gathered the art, along with the words of fifteen poets, writers, artists, and scholars who reflect in various ways on the layers of interpretation to be derived from Briseñoâs works. Their thoughts provide focal points for musings about food, transborder relationships between food and art, personal connections to food, individual works within the exhibit, and the intense and immediate connections among culture, food, and self.
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Wealth of Selves: Multiple Identities, Mestiza Consciousness, and the Subject of Politics (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions)
Posted by admin on December 26, 2011
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Many of us have multiple identities, says Edwina Barvosa. We may view ourselves according to ethnicity, marital or family roles, political affiliation, sexuality, or any of several other Âidentitiesâ we may use to organize our behavior and self-understanding at any given time. Various domains have offered nuggets of insight regarding the characteristics and political implications of seeing the self as made up of multiple identities, but many questions remain.
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In Wealth of Selves, Edwina Barvosa constructs an ambitious interdisciplinary blend of these insights and crafts them into an overarching theoretical framework for understanding multiple identities in terms of intersectionality, identity contradiction, and the political potential that lies within the practices of self-integration.
Grounded in Gloria Anzaldúaâs concept of mestiza consciousness as well as in Western political thought, this reconsideration of the self promises to reshape our thinking on issues such as immigrant incorporation, national identity, political participation, the socially constructed sources of will and political critique, and the longevity of racial and gender conflicts.
With its accessible style and rich cross-pollination among disciplines, Wealth of Selves will reward readers in political science, philosophy, race, ethnic, and American studies, as well as in borderlands, sexuality, and gender studies.
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Raid Across the Rio Bravo
Posted by admin on December 11, 2011
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Larry’s Beans Fair Trade Organic Coffee, Rio Bravo Mexico, Whole Bean, 5-Pound Bag
Posted by admin on December 10, 2011
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Funky. Fresh. Fantastic. Larry’s Beans is changing the world one coffee bean at a time. All of our beans are 100% Fair Trade, Shade Grown and Organic or Transitional Organic. We go to crazy lengths to find the best coffees in the world and roast them with precision and artistry. We only sell beans that are outstanding, high quality and unique. Our enthusiasm for Fair Trade goes beyond buying coffee from farmers who pour their hearts and souls into your cup of morning brew, it goes beyond being a successful alternative economic model and is a way to connect people from all corners of the world. We strive to find partners who put passion into what they do and who care about taking care of our planet just like we do! Our delivery van even runs on vegetable grease! And we have the first ever biodegradable coffee bean bag! We record the music of our farmers! We love sustaining our planet and we love making coffee that makes you happy. Now, grab a donut or some homemade granola and sip to your heart’s content!
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They All Want Magic: Curanderas and Folk Healing (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo)
Posted by admin on December 3, 2011
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Curanderasâ??traditional healers in Mexican cultureâ??bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existenceâ??spiritual and material, modern and pre-modernâ??dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas. As a scholar, an ethnographer, and a curandera in training, her parallel perspectives uniquely aid readers in understanding this subordinated culture. Retelling the stories various healers have shared, interpreting their answers to her probing questions, and describing the herbs and recipes they use in their arts, the author vividly illuminates the borderland context of San Antonio. Scholars and readers of anthropology, sociology, Chicana and Chicano studies, and women’s studies will savor the many layers of meaning and application in They All Want Magic.
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The Searchers (Ultimate Collector’s Edition)
Posted by admin on November 30, 2011
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Larry’s Beans Fair Trade Organic Coffee, Rio Bravo Mexico, Whole Bean, 12-Ounce Bags (Pack of 3)
Posted by admin on November 19, 2011
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Funky. Fresh. Fantastic. Larry’s Beans is changing the world one coffee bean at a time. All of our beans are 100% Fair Trade, Shade Grown and Organic or Transitional Organic. We go to crazy lengths to find the best coffees in the world and roast them with precision and artistry. We only sell beans that are outstanding, high quality and unique. Our enthusiasm for Fair Trade goes beyond buying coffee from farmers who pour their hearts and souls into your cup of morning brew, it goes beyond being a successful alternative economic model and is a way to connect people from all corners of the world. We strive to find partners who put passion into what they do and who care about taking care of our planet just like we do! Our delivery van even runs on vegetable grease! And we have the first ever biodegradable coffee bean bag! We record the music of our farmers! We love sustaining our planet and we love making coffee that makes you happy. Now, grab a donut or some homemade granola and sip to your heart’s content!
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