Red Threads

Summer 2013 Annual CAAS NewsletterAsian American Studie

A Letter to Members of the United States Congress from Church Leaders, Non-Governmental Organizations, Citizen Groups, and Academics Regarding the Human Rights Crisis in the Philippines

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The Daily Texan

Texas Student Medi

The Siren Song of the Desert:Feminized Desert, Nature, and Water as Cultural Critique in Mary Austin’s The Land of Little Rain

In her 1903 book, The Land of Little Rain, Mary Austin’s descriptions of the desert are informed by a feminist perspective as she characterizes the desert landscape as feminine, capturing its power over the male mind. Austin argues that the desert landscape is rendered subordinate to the ways of man—much like how women, Native Americans, and Mexican residents were oppressed in the American West. Austin’s feminization of the desert landscape reveals how water reflects the cultural values and issues of the American West. By infusing her realism with the feminine, the magical, and the spiritual, Austin challenged the predominantly male literature about the landscape and nature of the American West to expand its cultural critiques and understand the complexities of natural resources and how we use them as agricultural, survival, and spiritual resources. This magical, feminine aspect is lost, however, in men’s interpretations of her writing, which flatten Austin’s writing into a simplistic nature narrative of the American West

The Daily Texan

Texas Student Medi

Aspirations to Empire: American Imperialism, Foreign Policy, and the 1954 Guatemalan Coup d’état

When the sun began to set on the British Empire - the largest the world had ever seen and the dominant world power for over a century – in the aftermath of World War II, the United States designated itself the new arbiter of international relations. Wielding economic imperialism as an Empire-building tool, the U.S., through interference in the internal affairs of countries around the globe, became the world’s dominant superpower. In particular, the United States developed a pattern of interfering in the domestic sphere of Latin American nations to protect the economic interests of American capitalists. Through a historical analysis of U.S. foreign policy regarding Latin America, this paper addresses the events preceding, the occurrence, and aftermath of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état. The coup returned the nation to a series of authoritarian dictatorships, sparking civil war and genocide against the Maya peoples, after a decade of democratic elections won through revolution in 1944. While the intervention was allegedly to stop the spread of communism in Latin America, in actuality, it served to protect private U.S. business interests. The case of the Guatemalan coup d’état demonstrates the effective sameness of U.S. national security and economic policy in both practice and oppression. It is but one example of U.S. foreign policymakers demanding intervention in the affairs of other sovereign nations to protect America’s elite. Both historically and in the case of Guatemala, said intervention has come at the expense of both the articulated values of the U.S. and the literal lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of citizens of other nations