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Category: On the Ground

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Organizing on the Ground for BLM: A Gay Mixed Black and Mexican Perspective

November 18, 2020Jesus Smith Black Lives Matter, On the Ground Leave a comment

Growing up in El Paso, TX (EPT) and embodying three marginalized identities—gay, Black and Mexican—made me acutely aware of the

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Dear Latines: Your Antiblackness Will Not Save You

November 11, 2020Michaela Machicote Black Lives Matter, On the Ground One comment

Dear Latines,[1] your antiblackness will not save you. Your aspirations to whiteness are deadly (RIP Trayvon Martin; RIP Philando Castile);

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Documenting Latinx Communities: Podcasting and Oral History in the Time of COVID-19

July 15, 2020Nelson Santana COVID-19, On the Ground Leave a comment

Coping with COVID-19 A question that has been lingering on my mind since March is: How are people coping with

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Transitioning U.S. Latinx Students to an Online Environment for Displaced Study Abroad Students

July 8, 2020Gina Malagold COVID-19, On the Ground Leave a comment

During my spring break in Rosario, Argentina I was woken up on an early overcast Thursday morning by the ping

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Mothering a Latino Boy in the Trump era

June 29, 2020Itzel Reyes COVID-19, On the Ground Leave a comment

Colorblindness betrayed me on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016. To be fair, it did announce its arrival the night before. When

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Social Distancing While Brown

June 22, 2020Marcela Rodriguez-Campo COVID-19, On the Ground Leave a comment

“Come inside child rest yourself it’s okay to want to be held ain’t we all just trying to be some

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Not your Mami

March 3, 2020Catalina Adragna On the Ground One comment

“Racism intersects with sexism to pit women of color and white women against each other. Women of color are sexualized

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Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part Two

October 15, 2019Eliana S. Rivero In Academia, On the Ground Leave a comment

It was to counter feelings of being an alien from outer space that I dived headlong into assimilation, into the

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Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part One

October 8, 2019Eliana S. Rivero In Academia, On the Ground Leave a comment

What am I but Woman and Other? While engaging the complex host of issues that accompany immigration, uprooting, and gender

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Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part Two

March 26, 2019Robert McKee Irwin On the Ground Leave a comment

Migrant Border Politics My previous installment questioned tendencies on both right and left to represent the migrant caravan through reductive

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Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part One

March 19, 2019Robert McKee Irwin On the Ground Leave a comment

General Introduction On October 13, 2018, a large caravan of migrants departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, heading north toward

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Border College: The Past, Its Present, Our Future

October 30, 2018Michael Ortiz In Academia, On the Ground 2 comments

I little thought as a graduate student that my academic future lay in driving a truck around Texas brush country.

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Tree with green leaves outside of colonial style church fence in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Blue Sky in background.

On Being Borg, On Being Puerto Rican

March 13, 2018Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo On the Ground One comment

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not

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mural of mexican men and women crouched down and looking over their shoulder

Belonging and Accents: Salvadoran Diaspora in Mexico and the U.S.

October 3, 2017Elena Foulis On the Ground One comment

We are not born with accents, yet accents and dialects are tied to region, nationalities, and class. Like many immigrants

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