Download or read book Madre Mother written by Mujeres de Maiz and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento written by Amber Rose González and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A multidisciplinary, intergenerational, critical-creative herstory of Mujeres de Maiz, a Los Angeles-based Indigenous Xicana-led spiritual artivist organization and movement by and for women and feminists of color"--

Download or read book Mujeres de Maiz written by Felicia Montes and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mujeres de Maiz written by Manuel Chiriboga and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento written by Amber Rose González and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1997, Mujeres de Maiz (MdM) is an Indigenous Xicana–led spiritual artivist organization and movement by and for women and feminists of color. Chronicling its quarter-century-long herstory, this collection weaves together diverse stories with attention to their larger sociopolitical contexts. The book crosses conventional genre boundaries through the inclusion of poetry, visual art, testimonios, and essays. MdM’s political-ethical-spiritual commitments, cultural production, and everyday practices are informed by Indigenous and transnational feminist of color artistic, ceremonial, activist, and intellectual legacies. Contributors fuse stories of celebration, love, and spirit-work with an incisive critique of interlocking oppressions, both intimate and structural, encouraging movement toward “a world where many worlds fit.” The multidisciplinary, intergenerational, and critical-creative nature of the project coupled with the unique subject matter makes the book a must-have for high school and college students, activist-scholars, artists, community organizers, and others invested in social justice and liberation.

Download or read book Our Sacred Ma z Is Our Mother written by Roberto Cintli Rodríguez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States. Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old maíz culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Using corn as the framework for discussing broader issues of knowledge production and history of belonging, the author looks at how corn was included in codices and Mayan texts, how it was discussed by elders, and how it is represented in theater and stories as a way of illustrating that Mexicans and Mexican Americans share a common culture. Rodriguez brings together scholarly and traditional (elder) knowledge about the long history of maíz/corn cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States. The author argues that, given the restrictive immigration policies and popular resentment toward migrants, a continued connection to maíz culture challenges the social exclusion and discrimination that frames migrants as outsiders and gives them a sense of belonging not encapsulated in the idea of citizenship. The “hidden transcripts” of corn in everyday culture—art, song, stories, dance, and cuisine (maíz-based foods like the tortilla)—have nurtured, even across centuries of colonialism, the living maíz culture of ancient knowledge.

Download or read book Voices from the Ancestors written by Lara Medina and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Chican Artivistas written by Martha Gonzalez and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the lead singer of the Grammy Award–winning rock band Quetzal and a scholar of Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, Martha Gonzalez is uniquely positioned to articulate the ways in which creative expression can serve the dual roles of political commentary and community building. Drawing on postcolonial, Chicana, black feminist, and performance theories, Chican@ Artivistas explores the visual, musical, and performance art produced in East Los Angeles since the inception of NAFTA and the subsequent anti-immigration rhetoric of the 1990s. Showcasing the social impact made by key artist-activists on their communities and on the mainstream art world and music industry, Gonzalez charts the evolution of a now-canonical body of work that took its inspiration from the Zapatista movement, particularly its masked indigenous participants, and that responded to efforts to impose systems of labor exploitation and social subjugation. Incorporating Gonzalez’s memories of the Mexican nationalist music of her childhood and her band’s journey to Chiapas, the book captures the mobilizing music, poetry, dance, and art that emerged in pre-gentrification corners of downtown Los Angeles and that went on to inspire flourishing networks of bold, innovative artivistas.

Download or read book Somewhere for My Soul to Go written by Judith Pasco and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: somewhere for my soul to go weaves memoir, travel stories, and inspiration into one woman's journey to a legacy. Pasco uses journal entries and vignettes from her many trips to Chiapas, Mexico, to produce a narrative that is both humorous and sobering. Her account of the founding of Mujeres de Maiz Opportunity Foundation includes a heart-warming glimpse of the indigenous women and girls of a weaving/seamstress cooperative, their educational progress, and the obstacles they confront in their daily lives. Pasco's book showcases an adventurous spirit in a humanitarian endeavor but also depicts an older woman who is realistic about her own shortcomings in challenging situations.

Download or read book Mujeres De Maiz Women of the Corn Herstory in Los Angeles Chapter One Regeneration The Goddess of Corn in L A written by Claudia Mercado and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This experimental short documentary shot between 1997 and 2017 exposes and captures the voices of the women of color artists during the late 90s who united to create a safe space for women's voices and to challenge, change and shape the cultural and artistic landscape of the Highland Park community in Los Angeles.

Download or read book From Ashes to Text written by Diego Falconí Trávez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned more than the flesh; it also charred practices, ways of life, and textualities, leaving an emptiness and a trauma that would mark the future literatures of the Andean region. This book cannot repair those pre-sodomite texts and bodies. It seeks instead to reconsider the value of the ash, a metaphor that allows for a critical and contradictory reading of sexual dissidences in the Andean region in the twentieth century, beyond both multiculturalism and the wake of a globalized LGBTI movement. Through a comparative analysis, and drawing on theoretical perspectives such as anticoloniality, feminisms, and cuir (rather than queer) theories, the book aims to understand the value of a series of complex texts in which dissident subjectivities, practices, and desires help to broaden the understanding of the Andean. Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize, the book was praised by the jury for the paradoxical and provocative way that it struggles against the abyss of past destruction and reflects on the contribution of the Global South to the often uniformist thinking around the body and its intersections.

Download or read book Fundamentos y Modelos del Estudio Pragm tico y Sociopragm tico del Espa ol written by Susana de los Heros and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the principal concepts and thematic areas of Spanish pragmatics. It is aimed at advanced students of Spanish -- upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students -- who need to hone their language skills for contextually sensitive use of the language. Written entirely in Spanish, with Spanish examples, this volume introduces basic pragmatics, methods of analysis, and new thematic areas such as language and the press and globalization. Theoretical explanations combine with practical exercises in each chapter to help students master the subtleties of language use.

Download or read book Gender on the Borderlands written by Antonia Casta_eda and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both noted and new scholars reweave the fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland, sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia Castaneda.

Download or read book Ten Fe written by Felicia Montes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A pronouncing dictionary of the Spanish and English languages composed from the Spanish dictionaries of the Spanish Academy written by Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages written by Velazquez de la Cadena and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Corn Woman Mujer Maiz written by Sue Littleton and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the story of the transformation of corn from world plant to the mainstay of the great civilizations of the New World, is an enthralling, historically correct adventure. Tel cuento de la transformacion del maiz, de planta salvaje al sosten principal de la civilizaciones del Nuevo Mundo, es una fascinante aventura, historicament correcta. Corn is a domesticated plant of the New World, as ancient as the wheat and rice of the Old World. Corn does not seem to be a likely heroin, yet "Corn Woman, Mujer Maiz" brings her to life. In this tale of growth to maturity, adaptation in those who love her, and ironic twists of plot as a vengeful captive in a foreigh land, corn is a persona, as Corn Woman, Corn Mother. Presented in English and Spanish.