(2005). Dolores Del Rio, the First \Latin Invasion\, and Hollywood's Transition to Sound. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p55 Spr. The career and promotion of Mexican actress Dolores Del Rio as a case study of how Hollywood's shift to sound film affected Latino and Latina actors is examined. It reveals the way in which the starring opportunities for Latinos dwindled when accent and language increasingly marked them as nonwhite in the 1930s in the talkie films….
(2005). Reassessing Pocho Poetics: Americo Paredes's Poetry and the (Trans) National Question. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p87 Spr. Americo Paredes's first collection of poetry, Cantos de Adolescencia in 1937, alongside his second poetry anthology, Between Two Worlds in 1991 is examined. Paredes's discourses of Mexican American identity demand a reassessment of the pocho as an icon for Chicanao literary and cultural studies….
(2005). \La Memoria De Nuestra Tierra\: Landscapes, Mexicans, and the Browning of America. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p123 Spr. The cartographic and aesthetic marker reveals about the contradictions inherent in the racial and civic constitution of the U.S. body politic based on the political and cultural notions of \landscape\ during the mid-nineteenth-century era and the neoliberal era of 2005. These two liminal periods are placed to render a more complete portrait of the relationships among the civic, racial, and geographic imaginations of Mexican America….
(2005). Education in Gringoland: UCLA 1944-48. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p149 Spr. The issue of college politics faced by the minority students like the Hispanics in the University of California, Los Angeles, is described. One of the students from the minority narrates two incidents in his personal life that forced him to better define himself….
(2005). El Barrio's \We Are Watching You\ Campaign: On the Politics of Inclusion in a Latinized Museum. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p153 Spr. The way in which economic and cultural trends have led cultural institutions to go away from grassroots constituencies toward better ones and multiple debates within the world of U.S. Latino/a culture and the arts is described. The debate over the El Museo, which in the larger context affected the categorization, promotion and exhibition of Latin American art, and the El Barrio's Campaign \We Are Watching You\ is discussed….
(2005). The Case of the Capeman: Appropriation of the \Authentic\. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p179 Spr. \The Capeman\ Paul Simon's first and only Broadway musical that embodies a peculiar authenticity unique in the history of Latino-themed musicals that stem from its reception by Latino audiences during its limited run is described. Capeman's music, dialogue and narrative gave authenticity for Latino audiences starved for representations of their culture in commercial theater….
(2005). La Memoria De Nuestra Tierra: Colorado. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v30 n1 p195 Spr. La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra combines a meticulously hand-painted landscape with historic photographs in a seamless blend imprinted on the holographic-like surface of a metallic coated substrate. The mural for the Denver International Airport, entitled La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra is a breakthrough in digital murals, printed digitally on a bronze-colored aluminum ten feet by fifty feet in length….
(2004). Race-Neutral Policies for Professional School Admissions: Are There Strategies to Enhance Latino Enrollment?. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n2 p155 Fall. Affirmative action policies have played a critical role in promoting equal opportunity for both Latino faculty and Latino students in higher education. Affirmative action, one of the social programs that evolved from the civil rights movement, was aimed at increasing opportunities employment and education for historically underrepresented groups that were targets of discrimination….
(2004). Why Latina/os Need More than Twenty-Five of Affirmative Action. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n2 p171 Fall. A time limit ensures periodic review of a race-based program to make sure that it is maintained only if needed or, if necessary, modified to better achieve its goals. The 25-year time limit announced by Justice O'Connor grabbed public attention which shows that University of Michigan affirmative action cases would be of monumental importance to public universities that have contemplating, affirmative action programs….
(2004). An Asset Approach to Educational Diversity Policies: Exporting Democracy. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n2 p185 Fall. Some interventions presented are a part of educational reform and ensured forward movement toward guaranteeing educational opportunities and access to the country's diverse racial and ethnic communities. A central goal of affirmative action policies is to enable students from previously segregated communities to train as leaders in a variety of educational disciplines….
(2004). Subaltern Soundtracks. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p57 Spr. The postrevolutionary Mexican presence in Los Angeles profoundly influenced the emergence and consolidation of film and other media there. Mainstream responses suggest that dominant uses of sound in film exercised an ideological police power that was ultimately aimed at symbolically containing Mexican dissent….
(2004). Transnationalism and Rights in the Age of Empire: Spoken Word, Music, and Digital Culture in the Borderlands. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p165 Spr. The cultural activities, including the performance of music and spoken word are documented. The cultural activities in the San Diego-Tijuana region that is described is emerged from rhizomatic, transnational points of contact….
(2004). Taco De Sesos. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p177 Spr. Taco de Sesos is a digitally animated fotonovella with the help of which the archetype of the \Maria\ is explored. \La Maria\ is represented as the heroic figure that quietly suffers a myriad of physical and symbolic violences….
(2004). Tech-Illa Sunrise. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p181 Spr. The leaked documents of the tech-illa network are investigated. It was unclear that if the information was left in the cracked server on purpose, to be distributed by the hackers as a decoy….
(2004). Building Faith?. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, v29 n1 p261 Spr. Moneo's design for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Struggles to bring the gospel to downtown Los Angeles is presented. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels might become a point of pilgrimage without challenge, and the cathedral might itself hold some reward for those who venture to visit its vast grounds….