Download or read book Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jim nez Quispe written by Carol Damian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art meets today’s political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jiménez Quispe’s retablos. This beautifully illustrated full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the creative gaze of renowned Peruvian artist Nicario Jiménez Quispe, a recent immigrant to the United States. An internationally recognized maker of retablos, Jiménez is creating work that powerfully encapsulates the struggles, possibilities, and tragedies of immigration from the Global South to North America. A decorative box with figures in the interior, the retablo in the Andes became a sort of magical-religious box designed to increase fertility among the herds owned by the local peasant population. These boxes served as a means of exchange in a cash-free, rural environment. Now reimagined by Jiménez, the retablo offers compelling insights into the bitter immigration disputes dividing our nation.
Download or read book Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States written by Paul DiMaggio and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society. They address the art forms that these modern settlers bring with them; show how poets, musicians, playwrights, and visual artists adapt traditional forms to new environments; and consider the ways in which the communities' young people integrate their own traditions and concerns into contemporary expression.
Download or read book Slaves Among Us written by Monique Villa and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a foreword by trafficking survivor Evelyn Chumbow, of The Human Trafficking Legal Center.The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of victims of human trafficking.Through the stories of three remarkable individuals who share how they fell victim to traffickers and how their bodies and souls resisted an enterprise of total destruction, Monique Villa takes us around the world--from Ohio to Tokyo, London to India, Qatar to Colombia--to uncover a parallel world where men, women, and children are dehumanized and reduced to obedient machines. Written by a global leader in the fight against human trafficking, this powerful book uncovers the hidden world of slaves--no longer physically in chains--who walk among us, trapped in a cycle of exploitation. Despite significant progress in the fight for human rights, slavery continues to flourish. In fact, there are more slaves today, in countries rich and poor, than at any point in the past. By giving voice to survivors of this horrific trade, Villa vividly illustrates dire situations we can do something about. Her call to action outlines concrete steps to safeguard the vulnerable among us and to eliminate slavery in our time.The author is donating all proceeds from sales of this book to help combat human trafficking.
Download or read book Immigrants of the IE written by Amanda and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book weaves together narratives and images created by community members to document the lived experiences of immigration in the Southern California Inland Empire region. It was born of a community arts and action collaboration with the explicit aim to the usethe arts as cultural strategy for community building, listening, and transformation. The themes that emerged through this project (health, home, family, work, and immigration detention) highlight not only the experiences of the community artists, but also mirror the community organizing campaigns advanced by the organizations that have sponsored this project (Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective, Bringing Theory to Practice, and Critical Action + Social Advocacy, Pitzer College). This compilation was created throughout 2020, a year consumed by the triple pandemics of COVID-19, racial violence and economic instability, making the issues explored in this book all the more urgent. To create a just future- one where respect, dignity, belonging, safety, and human rights are recognized for all, not privileges for a few- we must first be able to imagine what that world looks, feels, and sounds like. Utilizing our radical imaginations through the arts moves us from idea to action, from dream to blueprint. Through our photos, our storytelling, we share our challenges and our wounds, as well as our hopes and the places where we plan the possibilities for our futures. We believe this strategy of art-making-as-social-change will someday translate our freedom dreams of a world beyond borders and bars into reality. With this book, we hope readers will be inspired to join us in shifting beliefs and policies that limit our full humanity and rights, while advocating for ones that celebrate our diverse experiences and contributions.
Download or read book Coming Across written by Jan Rindfleisch and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
