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The Church and Gay Liberation: The Case of John McNeill
Authors: McCartin James P.
Published: March 2016

After authoring the groundbreaking 1976 book The Church and the Homosexual , John McNeill immediately became the most notable figure in late twentieth-century U.S. Catholicism when it came to the pastoral and moral challenges related to homosexuality. Subsequently silenced by church authorities and ultimately expelled from the Society of Jesus after publicly criticizing the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1986 “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,” McNeill’s story helps to shed light on the history of two post-1945 phenomena: first, Catholic theologians’ and church officials’ increasing interest in the issue of same-sex sexual relations; and second, an emerging narrative, promoted by the gay liberationist movement, which portrayed the church as an oppressor of gay men and lesbian women.
The Church and the AIDS Crisis in New York City
Authors: Rzeznik Thomas F.
Published: March 2016

This article examines the Catholic response to the AIDS epidemic in New York City during the 1980s, the disease’s first decade, looking at three distinct, but overlapping, spheres—the development of AIDS ministry within Catholic health care, the evolution of the Church’s moral teaching on homosexuality, and the struggle of gay Catholics to secure pastoral recognition. It reveals how the AIDS crisis gave rise to encounters between the Catholic Church and the gay community that would shape their relationship in inescapable and transformative ways. Perhaps most poignantly, in giving visibility to the gay community and its sufferings, the AIDS crisis prompted the Catholic Church to grapple with the issue of homosexuality not in the abstract, but in face-to-face encounters with persons with AIDS.
Cardinal Gibbons as a Symbol for Early Sex Education
Authors: Slominski Kristy L.
Published: March 2016

Scholars and church leaders have recognized Cardinal James Gibbons (1834−1921), archbishop of Baltimore, as a prominent voice for American Catholics. However, few are aware that early sex educators claimed Gibbons as one of their own. Starting in 1912, several national organizations dedicated to sex education elected him as honorary vice president. He was a symbol for the sex education movement, a symbol that gained momentum over time and transformed him posthumously into a founder of sex education. Reasons why are not immediately apparent. To make sense of these representations, it is necessary to understand the historical role of religion in sex education. The embrace of Gibbons grew out of the movement’s liberal Protestant roots and its search for moral legitimacy in a culture that deemed sexual discourse obscene. Gibbons’ reputation grew stronger among sex educators as they sought wider religious support for public campaigns, moving in the direction of ecumenical and interfaith cooperation. His association with these organizations sheds light on the diversity of American Catholic views on sex education—especially in its early days when the mainstream movement did not endorse birth control.
Abortion in the Early American Press: Secular and Catholic Approaches to the Pre-Born Child
Authors: Frasca Ralph
Published: March 2016

When discussing abortion, the contemporary press commonly focuses on the political and reproductive-rights aspects of the issue, ignoring the person-hood of the unborn child. Many logically assume the dehumanization of the unborn child began with the 1973 Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortion. It is equally logical to assume that before 1973, when most forms of abortion were crimes, the press and governments acknowledged and sympathized with the unborn child victim. However, newspapers, secular and Catholic, from the early American period until the dawn of the Civil War, differ markedly in their approach to the unborn. The secular media largely failed to acknowledge the personhood of the unborn, even as news reports about murders, rapes, and robberies customarily acknowledged that those crimes had victims. The early Catholic press, however, demonstrated more recognition of the unborn children aided by theological developments, including the teaching on the ensoulment of the unborn from the time of conception.
Catholic Birth Control?: Father John O’Brien, Rhythm, and Progressive American Catholicism in 1930s Contraception Discourse
Authors: Pavuk Alexander
Published: March 2016

Father John A. O’Brien (1893–1980), longtime Catholic chaplain at the University of Illinois and influential priest-social scientist, engaged both mainline thinkers and other Catholics on key social questions of the interwar era by employing rhetoric heavily seeded with science. Partly hoping to demonstrate Catholic openness to modernity while parrying longstanding accusations of Church obscurantism, O’Brien was one of a small, yet influential, cadre of progressive Catholics who wrote on topics straddling public ethics and public policy by using ground rules favored by non-Catholic, even non-religious, interlocutors. O’Brien thereby sought a via media between the Church and thought currents of the age. In the 1930s, his works on contraception emphasized the newly-configured “rhythm method” as a scientifically infallible way for married couples to separate sex from procreation in good conscience. The manner in which O’Brien argued in favor of rhythm—and the ends he emphasized—may have unintentionally contributed to a broader shift in the public sphere’s framing of the contraception issue. Consequently, contraception became primarily a technical question for scientists to deal with, a question that increasingly did not concern putatively obscurantist churches.
From Anti-Contraceptive Campaigns to Fetal Rights: The Pro-Life Movement’s Attempt to Separate Itself from the Politics of Birth Control
Authors: Williams Daniel K.
Published: March 2016

American Catholic pro-life thought has long had a complicated relationship with the Church’s pronouncements against contraception. The twentieth-century American Catholic campaign against the legalization of abortion developed as an outgrowth of the Church’s larger campaign against artificial birth control, but between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, Catholic lawyers and clerics attempted to sever this historic link. By the late 1960s, they had succeeded in rebranding the pro-life movement as a human rights cause that had nothing to do with contraception. Several prominent pro-life leaders in the 1970s were strong advocates of birth control. Yet in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, controversies over birth control reemerged in the pro-life movement as a result of the movement’s increasing sexual conservatism. In the end many pro-lifers decided that even if they preferred to retain the image of their movement as a human rights campaign that was not directly tied to the politics of birth control, the link between abortion and sexual permissiveness was too obvious to ignore. The result was an effort to revitalize the historical link between the campaign against contraception and the defense of unborn human life.
Elena y El Gaviero
Authors: Andújar Rey
Published: March 2016

Una lectura de las Cartas de Álvaro Mutis a Elena Poniatowska , efectuando análisis de la presencia del escritor colombiano en México, su encarcelamiento y las visitas de Elena Poniatowska con él en la cárcel.
Las crónicas femeninas de Elena Poniatowska en la construcción de un archivo digital
Authors: André María Claudia
Published: March 2016

Descripción pedagógica del transcurso de un proyecto innovativo donde los estudiantes de nivel universitario construyen una página web sobre la obra de artistas mexicanas y europeas llegadas a México durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. El proyecto se basa en tres textos de Elena Poniatowska: Tinísima, Leonora y Las siete cabritas . El objetivo principal del proyecto era aproximar a los estudiantes a la tarea de investigación empleando las nuevas propuestas y prácticas pedagógicas que ofrece el campo de las Humanidades Digitales.
Jesusa en Islandia: La traducción de Hasta no verte, Jesús mío
Authors: Guðjónsdóttir María Rán
Published: March 2016

La traducción al islandés de Hasta no verte, Jesús mío fue bien recibida entre críticos y lectores por igual. Con motivo de su publicación en 2012, Elena Poniatowska visitó este país para la alegría de entusiastas islandeses de la literatura latinoamericana. En este ensayo, la traductora María Rán Guðjónsdóttir, examina el proceso de traducción de la novela, el reto de transmitir el texto y la cultura del idioma de origen tan diferente al idioma de la traducción, y tomando en cuenta el concepto, de Ortega y Gasset, de “miseria y esplendor” para el traductor.
Intersticios, cruzamientos e intersecciones: Desafíos pedagógicos en La noche de Tlatelolco de Elena Poniatowska
Authors: Peña Luis H.
Published: March 2016

Un estudio sobre las experiencias pedagógicas de estudiantes de nivel subgraduado al enfrentarse al texto emblemático de la década del 1960, La noche de Tlatelolco (1971) de Elena Poniatowska. El marco pedagógico traza como vectores conceptuales ética, estética y política, problematizando el evento histórico materializado en un evento literario, sus fronteras y su naturaleza lingüística representacional e ideológica para efectuar un acercamiento a las complejidades del conocimiento contextual en su lectura.
Reading Elena Poniatowska’s Leonora in an Undergraduate Seminar
Authors: de Schmidt Aurora Camacho
Published: March 2016

Description of an Honors literature seminar focused on a selection of texts by prominent Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, including critical strategies involved in preparation, work required by students, and Poniatowska’s creative strategies in depicting rebellious women and other socially marginalized figures. A special focus on the biographical novel Leonora (2011) illustrates the pedagogical possibilities of this novel, and students’ analytical responses to the reading.
Elena Poniatowska: Then, Now and Forever
Authors: Brewster Claire
Published: March 2016

Elena Poniatowska’s extraordinary literary output and her delightful personality justly merit her position as Mexico’s most dearly loved and highly respected author. I consider myself truly fortunate to have had the luxury of intensively studying her writings during the process of my doctoral dissertation. In this essay, I recall my introduction to Poniatowska’s work, her impact on my postgraduate studies, and how I, as a historian, employ her testimonial literature in my classes and the teaching of undergraduate students in the United Kingdom.
Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela y las cartas de Angelina Beloff en el archivo Museo Frida Kahlo
Authors: Gardner Nathanial
Published: March 2016

Al leer el texto, Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela , de Elena Poniatowska, piensa el lector en posibles vínculos entre la ficción y el contexto histórico (el discurso epistolar de Angelina Beloff). Se conoce que Elena Poniatowska creó su versión ficticia luego de leer la biografía de Diego Rivera, preparada por Bertram Wolfe. En este ensayo se examinan las cartas de Angelina Beloff dirigidas a Diego Rivera, archivadas en el Museo Frida Kahlo, para proponer una comparación entre las cartas físicas, auténticas (del archivo), y asuntos de biografía y ficción, y nuevas ideas al consultar cada fuente por separado. Al final, se logra un nuevo entendimiento de la obra de ficción de Poniatowska, a partir de los documentos históricos.
Teaching Gaby Brimmer : A Disability Studies Approach
Authors: Jörgensen Beth
Published: March 2016

Gaby Brimmer (1979), the collaborative “autobiography” of the Mexican disability rights activist, narrates her childhood and young adulthood through the voices of Brimmer herself; her mother, Sari Dlugacz Brimmer; her caregiver, Florencia Morales Sánchez; and Elena Poniatowska. This article presents ideas and resources for teaching Gaby Brimmer from a disability studies perspective, in courses on contemporary Spanish-American literature, women writers, genre theory, human rights and activism, or in a disability studies course.
Cracking Codes of Resistance: The Adaptation of Elena Poniatowska’s Story “De noche vienes” to Film
Authors: Ramsdell Lea
Published: March 2016

A comparison of one of Elena Poniatowska’s longer stories, “De noche vienes,” and its interpretation in film many years later, for subversive and other techniques.
Pedagogía crítica, crónica cultural y corporeidad auto/biográfica en “Nahui Olin: La que hizo olas” de Elena Poniatowska
Authors: Maiz-Peña Magdalena
Published: March 2016

Este estudio considera la crónica cultural de Elena Poniatowska sobre Nahui Olin a partir de marcos referenciales epistemológicos, pedagógicos y feministas concentrándose en los sujetos auto/bio/gráficos, género, ideología y representación desde diversas aproximaciones teóricas y exploraciones discursivas. Se sitúa en relación a un seminario subgraduado multidisciplinario de Estudios Hispánicos reflexionando sobre prácticas de lectura que desmantelan modelos canónicos de representación auto/biográfica femenina.
Constructing the Democratic Reader: The Functions of Textual Hybridity in La noche de Tlatelolco
Authors: Chinchilla Manuel
Published: March 2016

A study of Elena Poniatowska’s La noche de Tlatelolco as a hybrid text that combines the genres of testimonio and chronicle to reconcile the relationship between history and literature. This article centers on how readership of La noche de Tlatelolco permits a democratic practice that confronts official discourse, particularly the PRI party’s narratives of legitimization, while also fostering an engagement with the original political impulse behind the student movement of 1968.
Class Privilege and Social Class Awakening in Paseo de la Reforma
Authors: Ledford-Miller Linda
Published: March 2016

In this reading of Elena Poniatowska’s Paseo de la Reforma , the plot goes beyond a love story and personal transformation of the protagonist to represent a metaphor in microcosm for Mexico City. Although a shorter work than her more highly recognized novels and testimonies, the tensions between social classes and the unearned privileges of the elite in this novel stand in contrast to the suffering of the masses.
Ser chaparrita: Los textos testimoniales como desafío al mundo académico y las lecciones de Elena Poniatowska
Authors: Partnoy Alicia
Published: March 2016

En el marco de una investigación sobre los últimos días de Alaíde Foppa realizada en México con la colaboración de Poniatowska, se examina el aporte de esta última a la construcción de un discurso de la solidaridad como condición central del texto testimonial.
Exploring Disaster Experiences through Elena Poniatowska’s Nada, nadie : Las voces del temblor
Authors: Slack Dawn
Published: March 2016

A study of Elena Poniatowska’s Nada, nadie: Las voces del temblor , based on the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, through recent critical theories on trauma and human experience in catastrophic events. This article explores the narrative context of personal and collective response to disasters as well as pedagogical approaches to disaster narration.
Ausencia-Presencia: Delineando una narrativa de personajes fugitivos de Elena Poniatowska
Authors: Pedroza Liliana
Published: March 2016

Un estudio de cuatro textos de Elena Poniatowska que giran en torno a la ausencia en sus distintos estadios y formas de invocación de personajes.
Tracking Jesusa: Geographic Information Systems and Character Development in Hasta no verte, Jesús mío
Authors: Long Pamela H. , Long Kevin W.
Published: March 2016

This study examines the uses of mapping software and web tools to produce multimedia annotations of a literary work—in this case Hasta no verte, Jesús mío by Elena Poniatowska—to the end of strengthening student engagement with the text, and cultural and literary contexts. The authors, a professor and a student at Auburn University-Montgomery, photographed scenes of specific sites and landmarks mentioned in the novel, mapped them on Google Maps, then linked the sites with historic photos of the periods indicated in the novel, in preparation for creating a unique website.
Organizations Serving Latino Communities Take Opposing Positions on Senate Bill 744
Authors: Gonzalez Gilbert G.
Published: March 2016

Discussion of the guest worker program in S.B. 744 passed by the U.S. Senate in 2013-14, followed by critical examination of principle positions taken by organizations and lobbyists, and key arguments used to justify their perspectives: legal protected status vs. corporations’ need for cheap, exploitable labor. Historical context provides crucial elements for discussion.
Social Determinants in Latino Diet and Health
Authors: Collins-Dogrul Julie , Saldaña Kenia
Published: March 2016

This study problematizes generalized patterns in Latino diet and health after reviewing obesity and food consumption patterns by race and ethnicity gleaned from the social science and health science literature comparing Mexican-origin American, European-origin American, and African-American food consumption patterns, and summarizes data from the 2009/2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The data from these surveys describes the quantity of fruit, vegetables, grains, meat, and other foods consumed. We review the literature on social determinants of diet to study whether food environments, socioeconomic status, culture, nativity, and globalization shape dietary practices.
Queering Political Economy in Neoliberal Ironbound Newark: Subjectivity and Spacemaking among Brazilian Queer Immigrant Men
Authors: Avivi Yamil
Published: March 2016

This paper complicates the dominant narrative of Newark’s Ironbound community as an exceptional and heteronormative neighborhood by analyzing the non-heteronormative subjectivities and spaces in them. During the period between 2004-2009, subjects were interviewed, in queer minoritarian spaces, to understand how Brazilian gays/queers reified and contested neoliberal ideologies of nationalism, “good” ethnicity, individualism, and “appropriate” sexual mores. This ethnographic account employs textual and spatial-temporal analysis to generate an alternative narrative of gay/queer life and groupings in the Ironbound.
¿Qué comía Francisco Hernández (1517-1578)?: La intermediación de mestizaje y gastronómica del Protomédico de Indias de Felipe II
Authors: Vilchis Jaime
Published: March 2016

Al llegar Felipe II al trono por mediados del siglo XVI, ya estaban sometidos los reinos del mundo indígena, y la monarquía española sobre América ya estaba consolidada. Pero a pesar de la maquinaria de la colonización, la práctica cotidiana continuaba en zonas alejadas del asiento colonial. Los viajes de uno del los agentes más creativos enviados por el reino de Felipe, su Protomédico de Indias, Francisco Hernández, resultó en una de las obras intelectuales más diversa y universal de la época. Desde un humanismo ecléctico—de medicina experimental y neoplatonismo teológico—y pensamiento utópico, probó las recetas de los antiguos mexicas, y fue testigo etnográfico de la medicina y gastronomía indígena. Se estudian aquí ejemplos de sus documentos por referencias y proceso de una mezcla de prácticas culturales.
The “Good,” the “Bad,” and the Queer Invisible: The Los Angeles May Day Queer Contingent
Authors: Villeda Suyapa G. Portillo , Ma Eileen J. , Macías Stacy I. , Varela Carmen
Published: March 2016

This article explores the evolution of the May Day Queer Contingent (MDQC) as a part of the annual Los Angeles May Day march. The MDQC is a notable example of the political mobilization led by queer women and transgender activists of color of the LGBTQ community, as it relates to the struggle for immigrant rights. Offering reflections from founders and key organizers, this paper considers the development of the MDQC; its engagement with other groups; intersectionality and queer women of color feminisms as a political project to confront a heteropatriarchal immigration reform movement.
Culinary Mestizaje : An Afro-Latino Collective Sensory Memory
Authors: Abarca Meredith E.
Published: March 2016

On the premise that culinary mestizajes express the complexity and often contradictory histories reflected in cultural values, this study examines historical, cultural, and symbolic stories that inform the foundation of a variety of Latino cuisines, with particular emphasis on African culinary influences on Latino food preparations. The purpose of the study is not to trace the history of any single food, but to consider the mnemonics of collective palate memories embedded in lived histories, and articulations of Claude Fischler’s idea of a “principle of tastes.”
Not Coming Out, but Building Home: An Oral History in Re-conceptualizing a Queer Migrant Home
Authors: Borges Sandibel
Published: March 2016

A feminist study and oral history based in the “coming out” experiences of a Third World, Zapotec-Oaxacan, working-class immigrant woman. Discussion of community issues around queer sexualities, dominant narratives, and home building; brings attention to little-cited scholarship and theory on practices within minority communities.
Dr. Francisco Hernández Ate Tacos: The Foods and Drinks of the Mexican Treasury
Authors: Chabrán Rafael
Published: March 2016

A study on Mexican foodstuffs and preparations, especially corn, tortillas, chile , and tomatoes, as well as Native-based drinks such as chocolate, atole and pulque , as documented by colonial medical doctor, Francisco Hernández (ca. 1517-1587). While much research has focused on Hernandez’s writing on botanical, medical, and natural history themes, his work on food and the preparation of food in New Spain has been ignored.
Branding Guilt: American Apparel Inc. and Latina Labor in Los Angeles
Authors: Noel Hannah
Published: March 2016

A study of the marketing strategies of the clothing enterprise, American Apparel, how it targets affluent, educated youth through socially conscious tactics, including a focus on pro-immigrant rights and Los Angeles-made, “sweatshop-free” advertising. The essay analyzes the ideologies and stances behind marketing materials that often contain images of Latinas/os as laborers, and white (European origin) population as consumers, and examines how U.S.-based ethical capitalism operates as a neoliberal form of social regulation to champion personal responsibility and individual freedom, in often hidden and inferentially racist and classist ways.
Las cocinas de México: Identidad nacional y mestizaje desde la afrodescendencia
Authors: Guzmán Hilda Irene Cota
Published: March 2016

Una reflexión sobre la cocina mexicana, en términos de identidad nacional sui generis , para ampliar concepciones sobre lo regional, el mestizaje y la etnicidad, particularizando el ejemplo de la afrodescendencia. Conjuntando una mirada multicultural, finaliza con la propuesta de unos conceptos sobre la cocina mexicana desde ideas sobre la mexicanidad en la actualidad.
“Sobreviviendo”: Immigration Stories and Testimonio in Song
Authors: Gonzalez Martha E.
Published: March 2016

Informed by experiential methodologies, this study demonstrates how those who engage in collective creative expression, significantly songwriting and dance, affirm a sense of community to usher social and political ideas forward, while reinstating a sense of humanity for migrants within and across nation-state borders. It discusses a specific recording and collaborative composition titled Sobreviviendo .
From Tortillas to Low-carb Wraps: Capitalism and Mexican Food in Los Angeles since the 1920s
Authors: Ochoa Enrique C.
Published: March 2016

Tortillas and products made from maize provided subsistence to early Mesoamerican civilizations, and are central to Mexican national identity, Latino/a communities, and the globalization of Mexican foods. In the U.S., tortillas represent one of the fastest growing sectors of the food industry. This study shows how the adaptive nature of capitalism leads to a refining of colonial praxis, using the tools of industrialization, nutrition science, and marketing as new methods for colonizing maize and delinking it from Mexican culture and history.
Cultural Citizenship and Coming Out on a College Campus: Undocumented Students’ Responses to Everyday Immigration Enforcement
Authors: Wignall Julia
Published: March 2016

A study of the experiences of young undocumented immigrants as they transition into adulthood in Southern California, their obstacles encountered in the imposed condition of “undocumented,” even within the university experience, and innovative strategies adopted to deal with legal impediments. Using an ethnographic approach and interviews with college students, techniques such as “coming out of the shadows” and “everyday enforcement” are evaluated, as well as theories on practices of cultural citizenship, to demonstrate that undocumented students are claiming space and rights in their daily lives.
Los vendedores ambulantes de Pilsen y La Villita: Lo formal de la economía informal
Authors: Piña Francisco
Published: March 2016

Una reflexión sobre los vendedores ambulantes de los vecindarios de Pilsen y La Villita de Chicago, los productos que venden, sus historias, padecimientos por el clima y regulamentos municipales, y la manera en la que proveen sostén para las familias, y entrenamiento de otros vendedores.
Empowering Students through Creative Resistance: Art-based Critical Pedagogy in the Immigrant Experience
Authors: Garcia Luis-Genaro
Published: March 2016

This study displays the value of using art-based critical pedagogy, and the importance of developing the socio-political awareness of immigrant students. It shows the development of strong student-teacher relationships through culturally relevant cirriculums through shared socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. The article relates the author’s personal ongoing relationship as a high school teacher with a former undocumented student as a model and key to nurturing students’ identities and academic endeavors.
La cocina tradicional indígena de Michoacán
Authors: Ojeda Lorena , Dávila Carmen Alicia
Published: March 2016

Estudio histórico y cultural de los orígenes de la cocina de la región p’urhépecha del estado mexicano de Michoacán a través de la cocina contemporánea y sus prácticas comunitarias. Consideraciones de productos agrícolas y prácticas culturales relacionadas con la cocina tradicional desde la época prehispánica hasta la contemporánea.
Idealizing Maya Culture: The Politics of Race, Indigeneity, and Immigration Among Maya Restaurant Owners in Southern California
Authors: Castellanos M. Bianet
Published: March 2016

Based on an ethnography of Maya restaurant owners in Los Angeles, the article examines how Maya migrants use Yucatecan cuisine to negotiate the politics of indigeneity. In Mexico, Maya peoples are denigrated as “Indian.” In the U.S., Maya migrants are racialized as “Mexican.” These racialization processes are intended to discipline indigenous subjects both within and outside of national boundaries. By drawing on popular indigenous cultural symbols and tastes that reinforce an idealized Maya culture, Maya restaurateurs construct an alternative politics of recognition that opens the door for new conversations about what it means to be indigenous and Latino.
Green Chile and Flour Tortillas: The Making of a Standard New Mexican Cuisine
Authors: Sánchez Stephanie M.
Published: March 2016

Regional and ethnic cuisines result from generations of cultural mixing and adaptation. In the case of regional New Mexican cuisine, a food culture distinct from other southwestern diets, emerged since the colonial era, based on the central role of chile peppers, both green and red varieties. The mestizaje in preparations of such as flour tortillas, sopaipillas , and blue corn further defines New Mexican culinary traditions. The unique ingredients and cooking practices of New Mexico cuisine are assessed in this article as essential expressions of cultural identity and regional tourism, and are increasingly important to marketing and the agricultural industry.
Cocinando la nación: Representaciones del capital cultural en Cocina ecléctica
Authors: Águila Rocío del
Published: March 2016

Este estudio analiza las políticas culturales y de género, y la representación de la comida en Cocina ecléctica (1890): Un libro de cocina que es único porque reúne las recetas de mujeres notables de diversos países latinoamericanos, entre las que se destacan algunas intelectuales, como su compiladora, la conocida escritora argentina, Juana Manuela Gorriti. A partir del conocimiento de los campos culturales, sociales y culinarios, Gorriti es una agente que logra acumular capital, en el sentido propuesto por Pierre Bourdieu. Con esto, ella proporciona el espacio para un discurso femenino progresista. A través de las recetas, se insertan ingredientes y tecnologías indígenas dentro de la cocina sofisticada de las clases burguesas, estableciendo una cocina criolla o hispanoamericana que reformula constantemente su identidad.
Queering Citizenship: UndocuQueer and Immigration Reform
Authors: Dahms Betsy
Published: March 2016

Analysis of the founding of the UndocuQueer movement and organizer, Julio Salgado, through Anzaldúan theory on nepantla , and in terms of cultural, sexual, and political citizenship, in the experience of those who came to the U.S. as children. This study assesses reasons for “coming out” as undocumented and queer through activism; argues that coalitional and relational activism challenges current anti-immigration policies and social factors; and advocates for a global and embodied citizenship.
Tacos and Coloniality: A Review Essay
Authors: Soldatenko Michael
Published: March 2016

Two recently published books examine the concept of “Mexican food” in the U.S. and Mexico. Gustavo Arellano’s Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America (2012) provides a readable journalistic examination of Mexican food in the U.S., and Jeffrey Pilcher’s Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (2012) offers an academic study of Mexican food presentations in a global setting by an established scholar. Each offers an entry for the field of Mexican food studies. This reading examines correlations of power in the colonial process and development of contemporary cuisine, drawing the conclusion that the concept of “Mexican food” is multifaceted, and at certain times and places, debatable.
La comida y sus historias : Food-centered Life Histories of Two Mexican Women Living in the U.S.
Authors: Martín Esther Díaz , García José
Published: March 2016

An examination of the interaction of foodways with personal history, collective memory, and identity formation, through the food-centered life histories of two Mexican women, first generation immigrants living in the U.S. Discusses espacios de convivencia , social relations orchestrated on women’s terms, the centrality of corn in the household’s diet (and changes due to the implementation of new technologies), and the significance of festive meals in relation to personal identity, to draw conclusions on women’s agency in preserving collective memory and knowledge through foodways. Includes Chicana feminist theories on women’s spaces and ways of knowing.
Techniques of Humiliation: Neoliberalism and the Noncitizen’s Body
Authors: Bhaumik Munia
Published: March 2016

This article argues that the disciplining of noncitizens becomes a constitutive characteristic of neoliberalism. Examining two narratives about bodily deprivation in detention centers, the study pursues the psychic life of statelessness through tragic testimonies that not only point to subjection, induced through techniques of humiliation, but also to the neoliberal contradiction between “inclusion” and practices of regulation. Readings interrogate the problem of normativity in neoliberalism. In particular, the article argues against normative presuppositions about both race and gender, demonstrating how this leads to the denial of medication and death in detention facilities.
Similar and/or Different Writing Processes?: A Study of Spanish Foreign Language and Heritage Language Learners
Authors: Elola Idoia , Mikulski Ariana M.
Published: March 2016

Following a cognitively-oriented framework, this study builds upon the authors’ previous work (Elola and Mikulski 2013; Mikulski and Elola 2011), which analyzed writing processes (planning time, execution time, revision time), fluency, and accuracy of Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners when composing in English and in Spanish. By analyzing Spanish foreign language (SFL) learners’ writing processes when composing in English and Spanish, the current study compares writing behaviors in both languages within the SFL group, as well as provides a comparison between the writing behaviors of the SHL and SFL learners completing the same writing tasks. SFL learners wrote less fluently, performed more surface revisions, and demonstrated less accuracy when writing in Spanish than in English, but monitored more in English. However, they allocated similar amounts of time to execution and planning across languages. Compared to their SHL counterparts, SFL learners wrote less fluently and accurately and devoted less time to Spanish intersentential planning and English monitoring. The SFL learners performed more surface revisions in Spanish and fewer meaning revisions in English and Spanish than the SHL learners. Insights into cross-linguistic transfer of writing skills and pedagogical suggestions are provided.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón: Impairment as Empowerment in Early Modern Spain
Authors: Clark Gloria Bodtorf
Published: March 2016

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, a seventeenth-century writer and native of New Spain, so excelled at the craft of writing comedias that he is recognized as one of the great writers of early modern Spain. In his personal life Ruiz de Alarcón struggled with a significant bodily impairment, a large hump on both his back and front, which made him the target of much attention and scorn from his fellow writers and others in society. No journals or letters exist that document his personal life or attitudes toward his impairment. However, disability theory opens a way to explore the woven fabric of Ruiz de Alarcón’s life and works. Both the themes and the characters in his popular comedias trace how his embodiment and experiences influenced his depiction of imperfections. Three of his seventeenth-century comedias , Las paredes oyen , La prueba de las promesas , and Examen de maridos , address different aspects of imperfection in both direct and indirect ways.
El capital cultural del español y su enseñanza como lengua extranjera en Estados Unidos
Authors: Moro Alberto Bruzos
Published: March 2016

Aunque el español goza en Estados Unidos de un creciente capital demográfico y, por tanto, económico y social, es una lengua con escasa legitimidad cultural e intelectual por su vinculación a la inmigración y a la pobreza. El propósito de este artículo es examinar la relación entre la pujanza social y económica del español y su desprestigio cultural en Estados Unidos, así como las consecuencias de esta desigualdad de capitales en su enseñanza universitaria: por un lado, la visión instrumental del español como lengua global y, por otro, la trivialización de su sustrato cultural e intelectual. Este artículo intenta mostrar que todas estas cuestiones, que se suelen considerar de manera aislada e independiente, están íntimamente ligadas y por tanto deberían abordarse conjuntamente.
Writing Fragments of Modernity: Visual Technology and Metafiction in Pablo Palacio’s Débora and “Un hombre muerto a puntapiés”
Authors: Ramos Juan G.
Published: March 2016

This current study explores the relationship between visual technology (cinema and photography) and a metanarrative preoccupation with the craft of literary narration in two texts by Pablo Palacio (Ecuador, 1906–47). In his novella Débora (1927), Palacio employs the language of cinema (e.g., the cinematograph, the cinema, references to film studios, and film plots) to present a story which details the protagonist’s fascination with films and foregrounds the narrator’s self-reflexivity about the craft of storytelling. In “Un hombre muerto a puntapiés” (1927), photography, the crónica , and ethical acts of reading, interpreting, and narrating become instruments for the narrator to solve the murder of Ramírez whose death is presumed to be caused by being kicked to death due to his homosexuality. Both texts are thus invested in exploring the complementarity of visual technology and literature as two narrative modes that fragment the fleeting experience of modernity. Ultimately, my reading of Palacio’s texts in light of visual technology leads to a reflection on what literature can gain from visual narrative recourses.
Examining the Simple View of Reading Model for United States High School Spanish Students
Authors: Sparks Richard , Patton Jon
Published: March 2016

The Simple View of Reading (SVR) model, which posits that reading comprehension is the product of word decoding and language comprehension that make independent contributions to reading skill, has been found to explain the acquisition of first language (L1) reading and second language (L2) reading in young English language learners (ELLs). Researchers have not examined the SVR for explaining L2 reading acquisition in older L2 learners several years after they acquired literacy in their L1. In this investigation, 165 US secondary level students in high school Spanish courses were administered measures of Spanish word decoding, reading comprehension, phonemic awareness, language comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. Multiple regression analyses revealed that Spanish word decoding explained 35% and Spanish language comprehension explained 31% of the variance in Spanish reading comprehension. Participants were classified as having high, average, and low levels of Spanish reading comprehension and compared on all testing measures. Results revealed overall group differences with high-achieving Spanish readers exhibiting significantly stronger skills than average and low groups on all measures. Findings support the SVR model for older L2 readers and suggest that once a certain level of word decoding in the L2 is attained, L2 language comprehension and L2 vocabulary may be the limiting factors for proficient L2 reading comprehension.
¿Qué es un fantasma? Trauma pasado y fantasía en el cine contemporáneo sobre la Guerra Civil española: El cine de Guillermo del Toro
Authors: Poisa María Gil
Published: March 2016

En las películas El laberinto del fauno y El espinazo del diablo de Guillermo del Toro el elemento de un mundo fantástico es paralelo al real en el cual se usa un nivel alegórico y se crea una vía de escape para sus personajes, quienes huyen de una realidad mucho más peligrosa. Ambas obras utilizan el monstruo fantástico yuxtapuesto al monstruo real. Este se representa en dos personajes, Jacinto y el capitán Vidal, quienes personifican el trauma colectivo de la guerra y el fascismo. El objetivo del presente estudio es argumentar que el punto en común para ambos es su falta de pasado y la consecuente capacidad de enfrentarse a unos recuerdos inexistentes como una representación simbólica de la cuestión de la memoria histórica en España. El hecho de que los personajes no puedan aprender de su pasado hace que no puedan construir su presente dentro de unas normas sociales. Esta falta de adaptación los deshumaniza y les hace comportarse de forma monstruosa, lo que genera una representación simbólica de los problemas de España para enfrentarse a su propia memoria histórica.
Syntactic Reflexes of Emerging Optionality in Spanish as a Heritage Language: The Case of Dative-experiencer Verbs
Authors: Pascual Diego , Cabo Cabo
Published: March 2016

This study contributes to current trends of heritage speaker bilingualism research by examining the syntax of so-called Spanish dative-experiencer predicates ( gustar -like verbs). Building on previous findings (e.g., Silva-Corvalán 1994; Toribio and Nye 2006), it is hypothesized that Spanish heritage speakers can project an optional agentive syntax (a use deemed ungrammatical by monolingual speakers) while still having access to the obligatory dative-experiencer syntax. It is argued that the availability of this emergent optionality, coupled with influence from English, the dominant language, conspire to promote the non target-like forms documented in previous research (e.g., Toribio and Nye 2006; de Prada Pérez and Pascual y Cabo 2011). The ensuing predictions are tested with a grammaticality judgment task that examines the informants’ knowledge and use of gustar -like verbs in passive constructions precisely because passivization of stative predicates should be precluded from a grammar that does not allow for an agentive alternation.
El teatro español sobre la inmigración en los años 90: Influencia mediática y procesos creativos
Authors: García-Manso Luisa
Published: March 2016

El presente ensayo lleva a cabo un recorrido por el primer teatro español sobre la inmigración y la xenofobia publicado y estrenado en los años 90 del pasado siglo. Se parte de un abundante material hemerográfico y de las reseñas críticas publicadas en la prensa periódica sobre los estrenos, para analizar la relación de este teatro con las realidades mostradas en aquellos mismos años por los medios de comunicación, donde la inmigración de las pateras y los ataques racistas contra la población extranjera recibían una amplia cobertura. El tratamiento de la información en los medios de comunicación de masas se convirtió en un importante motor para la inspiración y para la creación teatral de un nutrido grupo de jóvenes autores y autoras que en la actualidad cuentan con sobrado reconocimiento y prestigio. Asimismo, se ofrece una aproximación a la doble vertiente ética y estética de este teatro, mostrando a través de los comentarios de sus autores y autoras cómo afrontaron sus creaciones con la intención de llevar al público hacia la reflexión y el cambio de los modelos identitarios, sirviéndose para ello de fórmulas dramáticas y lenguajes expresivos innovadores.
The Effect of Reading on Second-language Learners’ Production in Tasks
Authors: Collentine Karina
Published: March 2016

Tasks provide engaging ways to involve learners in meaningful, real-world activities with the foreign language (FL). Yet selecting classroom tasks suitable to learners’ linguistic readiness is challenging, and task-based research is exploring the relationship between learners’ overall abilities (e.g., reading, grammatical) and the complexity and accuracy of their production (Skehan and Foster 2012). The present study examines the effects of learners’ reading abilities prior to a task and reading behaviors during the task on their production of linguistic complexity and accuracy. Fifty third-year, university-level FL learners of Spanish participated in two tasks. In each, they first explored a 3D world to seek clues to a mystery, after which pairs solved the mystery in synchronous computer mediated communication (SCMC). To gauge their reading abilities, learners completed a reading comprehension test (prior to the tasks). Technologies within the 3D world tracked learners’ reading behaviors. The SCMC data was analyzed for linguistic complexity and accuracy. Regression and exploratory analyses showed that learners’ production of linguistic complexity and accuracy in SCMC was the result of not just their prior reading abilities but also their reading behaviors while exploring the 3D world.
“Eu de noite sou seu cavalo”: Luisa Valenzuela’s Story of Interpretation and Inhabitation
Authors: Ostrom Katherine
Published: March 2016

In Luisa Valenzuela’s 1982 short story “De noche soy tu caballo,” the female narrator hears a fragment of a song lyric in Portuguese and interprets it to her male lover, a political dissident, as a reference to a ritual of spirit possession. This idea later helps her to stay strong and spiritually connected to him while she is interrogated and tortured. Critics have debated the nature of the relationship between these two characters in the context of Argentina’s most recent dictatorship, but they have neglected the Brazilian intertext, its cultural context, and the way its meaning is altered in translation. This current study reads Valenzuela’s story in dialogue with Chico Buarque’s song “Sem açúcar” in order to reveal the narrator’s interpretation as inaccurate, having more to do with her own needs and projections of Brazilian culture than with the meaning of the song. It also relates the narrator’s interest to social and political trends in late-1970s Brazil, including increased appreciation for Afro-Brazilian religions and for the role of women in Brazilian music.
Graded Readers: Validating Reading Levels across Publishers
Authors: Rodrigo Victoria
Published: March 2016

Graded readers can be an optimal resource to help language students improve and personalize their learning experience. An extensive reading library with graded readers and well-defined levels of reading difficulty increases language students’ chances of having a successful reading experience and become independent readers. However, when it comes to implementing such a library, there is a practical issue. A review of the graded readers available in Spanish reveals different proficiency levels and a lack of a uniform set of criteria for establishing levels of reading difficulty. Through the analysis of 203 titles by 12 publishers (from Spain, England, Italy, and the United States) complemented by an objective and uniform tool—a readability test—the present study validates and suggests alignment among reading levels across publishers. The ultimate goal of this study is to provide language teachers and program administrators with a uniform system of cataloging graded readers under the premise that a well-established library fosters independent language learning.
Os modernismos português e brasileiro no período heróico: Uma leitura convergente
Authors: Oliveira Sílvia
Published: March 2016

Este artigo revisita o polémico período das vanguardas artísticas em Portugal e no Brasil nas primeiras décadas do século XX numa leitura convergente de textos de Fernando Pessoa e de Oswald de Andrade. Centrando-se nas afinidades históricas e políticas entre as duas nações, na partilha de ideários estéticos combinados com um interesse geracional em poéticas e ideologias internacionais, uma leitura convergente das duas vanguardas históricas identifica experiências partilhadas e uma ligação continuada através de símbolos culturais que, sintetizados politica e poeticamente, perduram até os nossos dias.
Racial Differences in Mathematics Test Scores for Advanced Mathematics Students
Authors: Minor Elizabeth Covay
Published: March 2016

Research on achievement gaps has found that achievement gaps are larger for students who take advanced mathematics courses compared to students who do not. Focusing on the advanced mathematics student achievement gap, this study found that African American advanced mathematics students have significantly lower test scores and are less likely to be proficient at all mathematics skill subdomains compared toWhite advanced mathematics students. Interestingly, African American students who take calculus as their highest level of mathematics in high school have similar achievement levels as White advanced mathematics students who have trigonometry/pre-calculus as their highest level of mathematics in high school.
Girls Talk Back: Changing School Culture through Feminist and Service-Learning Pedagogies
Authors: Martin Jennifer L. , Beese Jane A.
Published: March 2016

This paper explores the intersection of feminism and service-learning by describing the creation of a women’s studies course for girls attending an alternative high school. In the course participants could critique sexist practices in the media and in the school, as well as establish cultural competence through engaging in service projects that they would lead. The researchers found that course content correlated with students’ identity development regarding sexual harassment awareness and prevention. Furthermore, participants’ increased their internal motivation (locus of control) in general and self-identification with feminism.