BarrioPOP

BarrioPOP
Author: cande aguilar &
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-12-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781389082818

Brownsville artist, Cande Aguilar is a visual artist that reflects on border culture through his barrioPOP distinctive style, with large canvasses featuring graffiti art, pop culture images, bold and bright colors. The exhibition features a strong collection of stimulating abstract visuals of large scale paintings and installations, from November 11 through January 5, 2018 at Beyond Arts Gallery in Harlingen TX. This exhibition booklet contains a review by artist/writer Noe Hinojosa, an excurpt by Nancy Moyer, critic for The Monitor, installation photos, and featured work images.

BarrioPOP

BarrioPOP
Author: cande aguilar
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-12-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781389105319

"barrioPOP is an amalgamation sprung by characters, colors & street phenomena that is my life immersed in popular border town culture; expressed through multimedia such as painting, image transfer, collage, photography, assemblage, digital collage, video & music." - Cande Aguilartext by artist/writer Noe Hinojosa

Identity in Professional Wrestling

Identity in Professional Wrestling
Author: Aaron D. Horton
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018-03-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476667284

Part sport, part performance art, professional wrestling's appeal crosses national, racial and gender boundaries--in large part by playing to national, racial and gender stereotypes that resonate with audiences. Scholars who study competitive sports tend to dismiss wrestling, with its scripted outcomes, as "fake," yet fail to recognize a key similarity: both present athletic displays for maximized profit through live events, television viewership and merchandise sales. This collection of new essays contributes to the literature on pro wrestling with a broad exploration of identity in the sport. Topics include cultural appropriation in the ring, gender non-comformity, national stereotypes, and wrestling as transmission of cultural values.

Timeless Learning

Timeless Learning
Author: Ira Socol
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018-06-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1119461685

Reinvent public schools with proven, innovative practices Our homes, communities, and the world itself need the natural assets our children bring with them as learners, and which they often lose over time on the assembly line that pervades most of the public education system today. We see no actions as more important in school than developing, supporting, and reinforcing children's sense of agency, the value of their voices, and their potential to influence their own communities. In Timeless Learning, an award-winning team of leaders, Chief Technology Officer Ira Socol, Superintendent Pam Moran, and Lab Schools Principal Chad Ratliff demonstrate how you can implement innovative practices that have shown remarkable success. The authors use progressive design principles to inform pathways to disrupt traditions of education today and show you how to make innovations real that will have a timeless and meaningful impact on students, keeping alive the natural curiosity and passion for learning with which children enter school. Discover the power of project-based and student-designed learning Find out what “maker learning” entails Launch connected and interactive digital learning Benefit from the authors’ “opening up learning” space and time Using examples from their own successful district as well as others around the country, the authors create a deep map of the processes necessary to move from schools in which content-driven, adult-determined teaching has been the traditional norm to new learning spaces and communities in which context-driven, child-determined learning is the progressive norm.

Arte Chicano

Arte Chicano
Author: Shifra M. Goldman
Publisher: Chicano Studies Library
Total Pages: 802
Release: 1985
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Listening to Laredo

Listening to Laredo
Author: Mehnaaz Momen
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816551758

Nestled between Texas and Tamaulipas, Laredo was once a quaint border town, nurturing cultural ties across the border, attracting occasional tourists, and serving as the home of people living there for generations. In a span of mere decades, Laredo has become the largest inland port in the United States and a major hub of global trade. Listening to Laredo is an exploration of how the dizzying forces of change have defined this locale, how they continue to be inscribed and celebrated, and how their effects on the physical landscape have shaped the identity of the city and its people. Bringing together issues of growth, globalization, and identity, Mehnaaz Momen traces Laredo’s trajectory through the voices of its people. In contrast to the many studies of border cities defined by the outside—and seldom by the people who live at the border—this volume collects oral histories from seventy-five in-depth interviews that collectively illuminate the evolution of the city’s cultural and economic infrastructure, its interdependence with its sister city across the national boundary, and, above all, the strength of its community as it adapts to and even challenges the national narrative regarding the border. The resonant and lively voices of Laredo’s people convey proud ownership of an archetypal border city that has time and again resurrected itself.