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The Unexplained Deaths of Immigrant Detainees

The deaths of two immigrants this past week under U.S. custody have raised questions regarding the treatment of detainees.

Fear, Loathing and Globalization: The Vilification of Brown Bodies

There are two ways to define globalization; one being from a free market perspective in which globalization would begin in roughly the 1940’s with the spread of multi-national business, or by a more socio-historical definition in which globalization is viewed as the Western expansion beginning in 1500 and defined by expansionist or colonialist ambitions. By defining globalization as a period marked by an ethnocentric urgency to “civilize” other nations and peoples, then we are able to view the Spanish and Portuguese crusades, the British colonialism, and American Imperialism as all being variant forms of the same sort of outward expansion.

Landings 5: Immigration, Modern Art and the Global Community

Landings 5: Immigration, Modern Art and the Global Community

Art Show @ the Museum of the Americas

Art as Activism

Guillermo Gomez-Peña has been shaking up the art scene for decades with his controversial pieces on the Mexican-American experience, xenophobia, exoticism, identity and border cultures. Never one to lose his edge, Gomez-Peña has recently been tackling the post-9-11 hysteria and xenophobia that has dramatically altered our national character.

1st Class Soldiers, 2nd Class Citizens

When Alex Jimenez first went missing during his term in Iraq, there was an outpouring of support, prayers, and vigils from the community and from around the country. Letters of solidarity and prayer and admiration flooded into the Jimenez household, all praising Jimenez as a national hero and a soldier of the highest merit.