Postracial Mestizaje: Richard Rodriguez’s Racial Imagination in an America Where Everyone is Beginning to Melt

An opponent of bilingual education and affirmative action as well as one of the most recognized Latino public intellectuals, Richard Rodriguez has long had a strained relationship to the field of Chicana/o Studies. Analyses of his work have ranged from those that question Rodriguez’s racial performance to examinations of his identity construction and the power of historical amnesia. With his most recent book Brown (2002), a meditation on (racial, cultural, and intellectual) impurity, scholars have explored and questioned Rodriguez’s theorization of an American mestizaje in conversation with previous Mexican and Chicana/o iterations. While recognizing those influences, this essay recontextualizes Rodriguez’s work within the contemporary political-racial discourse of colorblindness, which he uses to speak to the interests of his largely conservative, white, and male followers. This essay yokes together two seemingly incompatible terms—postracial and mestizaje—as a point of entry into Rodriguez’s political and cultural vision. While used with a mixture of caution, purpose, and cynicism, I find “postracial” a useful modifier for Rodriguez’s vision of mestizaje, for he imagines mestizaje beyond racial categories to include sexuality and religion. Moreover, Rodriguez embraces the post-civil rights discourse of colorblindness wherein racial inequality is maintained through abstract liberalism, historical amnesia, and other strategies. Finally, in an era marked by Birtherism, anti-immigrant and anti-Latino legislation, and astounding levels of incarceration within communities of color, Rodriguez’s attempts to reimagine mestizaje postracially mark the shortcomings of his political project. Ultimately, I contend that Rodriguez’s postracial mestizaje simultaneously offers and curtails racial transformation, or rather it crafts a model to maintain inequality in the guise of liberation. By locating this strand in Rodriguez’s thinking, this essay maps the borders, limits, and terrain of Brown’s post-racial imaginings

Self-Efficacy and English Learners in the English Language Arts Classroom

Thesis (M. Lib. St.)--Indiana University South Bend, 2011.While there have been many studies conducted measuring self-efficacy for special needs learners, African-American students, and second language learners in other countries, few studies have looked at how self-efficacy may affect English Learners in the United States, specifically within Hispanic populations. This paper gives a brief overview of the research on self-efficacy as related to English learning, as well as the details of an attempt at measuring self-efficacy and achievement of Hispanic English language arts students at the high school level. Further research in this field is suggested. Keywords: Achievement, English Language Arts, English Learner, Hispanic or Latino/a Students, Motivation, Self-concept, Self-efficacy

A Chandra X-ray Observation of the Galactic Composite Galactic Supernova Remant 3C 396

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Interview with Gary Bebout

Gary Bebout talks about the local community and growing up in Knox Countyhttps://digital.kenyon.edu/lak_interviews/1015/thumbnail.jp

Depositional and diagenetic history of the Sligo and Hosston Formations (Lower Cretaceous) in South Texas

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Upper Pennsylvanian Conemaugh corals from Ohio

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Geothermal resources, Frio Formation, south Texas

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Biology IS the Technology: the Microbial Ecology of Space Food Production and the Power of Aquaponics as a Learning Tool

To accomplish the objective of human missions to Mars and/or the long-term colonization of the moon, bioregenerative life support systems and food production systems will be absolutely necessary. Microbes are an essential and unavoidable component of these systems. In fact, these systems are driven by complex microbial communities about which we know very little, a glaring strategic knowledge gap in our ability to support extended human exploration in closed systems. Our laboratory has been working to use molecular ecological methods, including nanopore sequencing technology already deployed on the International Space Station, to understand the microbes in food production systems on Earth. Our ultimate goal is to inform the implementation of food production systems off-world. To date, we have sampled and sequenced the microbiomes of aquaponics systems, hydroponics systems, and fish ponds. Our results have revealed that the microbial communities in these systems are extremely diverse, and highly variable between systems. Along the way, we have discovered the power of aquaponics systems as teaching tools, and the capacity of students to perform high quality citizen science. By designing, constructing, and operating aquaponics systems, students better understand the role of microbes in the cycling of the elements in natural ecosystems, and in the human built environment. In partnership with schools and colleges, contributing new knowledge as citizen scientists, we are now exploring the relationships between the functioning of these systems and their microbial flora

The Mythology of Ronald Reagan

Lisa Bebout is a double major in History and English, graduating in May 2014. She received acceptance to Phi Eta Sigma, a National Honor Society, for her performance as a first year college student. IPFW’s literary journal Confluence published a non-fiction prose story she submitted in its Spring 2014 edition

Stuart City trend, Lower Cretaceous, south Texas : a carbonate shelf-margin model for hydrocarbon exploration

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