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ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL: Revisiting A New Time for Mexico
Eleven years after its publication, Carlos Fuentes’s A New Time For Mexico (University of California Press) remains an insightful analysis of Mexico on the cusp of modernity. In his chapter ...

YON WALLS: An Exquisite Praise Song
Many of us were bewitched and captured through media or by physical location by the sights, sounds, gestures and language of the recent Presidential Inauguration on a sparkling cold day ...

BRETT ALAN SANDERS: Beyond "Mere Rhetoric" [Arte Retorica #9]
For us moderns, rhetoric means artificiality, insincerity, decadence. Perhaps this is simply because we do not understand it and have become barbarians ourselves.
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ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL: The End of Solitude
Social critics and anthropologists frequently talk about a culture’s or people’s sense of centrality---i.e., viewing the world through the lens of its/their unique perspective. It is diffi ...

ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL: Are Cutures, As Represented by the U.S. and Mexico, Really Equal?
 
One of the complaints by critics of multiculturalism is that, contrary to what this philosophy posits, cultures are not truly equal. The critics in the U.S. use Mexico—its culture a ...


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ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL: Are Ethnic Studies Necessary?
On January 17, 2012, the Board of the Tucson Unified School District closed its Raza Studies courses in compliance with HB 2281, which effectively banned the teaching of ethnic studies in Arizona publ ...

ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL: The Hispanic Non-Challenge
The recent popular revolts in the Middle East have revived the conversation regarding Historian Samuel P. Huntington’s thesis on what he called “clashing civilizations.”  Mr. Hu ...

ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL: About Milan Kundera & Political Theater
Here is a quote from Kundera's The Art of the Novel which defines how the dissemination of resentment through mass media works:
 "Modern Stupidity means not ignorance but the ...



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