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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"”.
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Black Enlisted Men in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866-1930
… the experiences of black soldiers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on soldiers’ cross-cultural encounters with the racially and ethnically diverse communities that surrounded the posts they garrisoned, revealing how black enlisted men viewed and attempted …
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Conocimiento in Community College Leadership: How Latina/Chicana Administrators Reclaim Agency in Contested Terrain Along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
… and class lines manifested in the contested U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Research scarcity exploring Latinas’ leadership perceptions and meaning-making processes has perpetuated leadership inequities and created a knowledge gap which ultimately undermines the calls for diverse and transformative …
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From 'Black-Eyed Girls' to the MMU (Mujeres Methotistas Unidas): Race, Religion and Gender in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
… of Mexican American Methodist women in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands within the context of the organizational history of the United Methodist Women of the Rio Grande Conference of the United Methodist Church: Mujeres Metodistas Unidas, or the MMU. It focuses on the experiences and memories of women …
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Women's lives in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and their experiences with the 'capacitar practices' for transforming trauma: an embodied enquiry.
… This research took place in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands with 14 female co-researchers (Mexican, Mexican-American, Mayan, White American) who live in the twin cities of El Paso (Texas, U.S.) and Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua, Mexico), who were thus exposed to the constant threat of lethal …
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Sonora’s Sacred Soundscapes --Sones Sagrados Sonorenses—
… a research interest in the folklore of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. The unexpected discovery of an archive at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage initiates an act of return: the repatriation of sound recordings made in 1944 in Desemboque, Sonora, by ethnomusicologist …
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Reclaiming Tribal Identity in the Land of the Spirit Waters: The Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation
… together American Indian, Chicana/o/x, and U.S./Mexico borderlands history, demonstrating how the ambiguities of Chicana/o/x and American Indian categories paradoxically both made it difficult for Native communities to be recognized for what they were, and simultaneously created spaces in which …
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Transcending Absence, Transforming Presence: Undocumented Migrants and the Navigation of Forced and Chosen Space
… transcended by undocumented migrants in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In Chapter Two, I look at the case of Freedom University as an example of how undocumented youth negotiate the uneven landscape of access to higher education in the U.S., creating and claiming alternative space in the process. My …
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Las Tejanas in nineteenth-century Texas: (En)gendering race, empire, and nation in the borderlands, 1750-1850
… in the making of the nineteenth-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Working at the intersection of Borderlands Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Latin American, and U.S. History, I show how Tejanas deployed degrees of racial and class privilege to challenge and reinforce interlocking systems of …
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War by Other Means: Environmental Violence in the 21st Century
… Tattooed Soldier. Chapter III considers the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and the environmental military violence responsible for the deaths of undocumented migrants by examining Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway and the Electronic Disturbance Theater’s Transborder Immigrant Tool. Chapter IV …
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Americanization, Language Policy, and the Promise of Education: Public School Formation and Educational Attainment in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona, 1880-1942
… of Nogales, Arizona, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. This study articulates the labyrinthine nature of the lived experiences of Hispanics with respect to how externally-imposed ideas of social interaction manifested themselves in these borderlands communities. One of the themes of this work is …
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Transborder Identity Development: A Photovoice Constructivist Grounded Theory Study of Transfronterizx Students in Postsecondary and Higher Education at the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region
… social identities at the San Diego-Tijuana borderlands. Transborder identity is defined by five in-vivo themes representing the meanings Transfronterizx students ascribed to themselves in relationship to others and their environment at the San Diego-Tijuana borderlands: (1) "We Speak …