Homegrown(1st Edition) Engaged Cultural Criticism by Bell Hooks, AmaliaMesa-Bains Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-72308-5, ISBN: 1-138-72308-8
"In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work ..."
"This casebook is part of a nationwide effort to capture and use practitioner knowledge to better prepare teachers for the reality of today's classrooms, given a student population vastly different from that of even a decade ago. Consciously designed to provoke engaging and demanding discussion, the cases presented here are candid, dramatic, highly readable accounts of teaching events or series of events. Set in three of the nation's mo ..."
Homegrown(1st Edition) Engaged Cultural Criticism by Bell Hooks, AmaliaMesa-Bains Hardcover, 158 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-72307-8, ISBN: 1-138-72307-X
"In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work ..."
Homegrown(6th Edition) Engaged Cultural Criticism by Bell Hooks, AmaliaMesa-Bains Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 2006 by South End Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89608-759-0, ISBN: 0-89608-759-X
"Mainstream rhetoric has made a concerted effort to polarize African Americans and Latinos, emphasizing differences in language and religion, while designating one or the other as the “favored minority” at will. In Witness, Amalia Mesa-Bains and bell hooks invite us to reexamine this politically popular binary and consider which differences are manufactured and which are real.In Witness, Mesa-Bains and hooks explore their own similaritie ..."
"A Casebook for Teachers and Teacher Educators ; [companion Volume to
Diversity in the Classroom] Judith Shulman Amalia Mesa-Bains ... to question
their assumptions, point of case discussion is to help teachers reflect on w they
do and build on their prior knowledge. ... role includes helping participants
expand their ways of thinking by investigating cultural complexit that may be
outside their ken."
"This casebook is part of a nationwide effort to capture and use practitioner knowledge to better prepare teachers for the reality of today's classrooms, given a student population vastly different from that of even a decade ago. Consciously designed to provoke engaging and demanding discussion, the cases presented here are candid, dramatic, highly readable accounts of teaching events or series of events. Set in three of the nation's mo ..."
"For over a decade, Dana Salvo has traveled throughout the central highlands and southern states of Mexico with his family. Welcomed into the homes of rural people, including Purpechan, Chamulan, and Zinacantan Indians, as few have been before, Salvo was permitted the rare privilege of photographing their private and deeply personal home environments. Central to each interior was the altarcito, or home altar. These dazzling large-format ..."
"reForm documents the creative process of artist Pep n Osorio as he translates the closure of Fairhill Elementary School, Philadelphia into a moving installation that honours the history of this school through collaborations with the many ..."
"Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections is an unprecedented examination of the impact that specific women artists, working in California in the second half of the twentieth century, have had on broadening the definition of art. Twenty preeminent scholars from diverse cultural backgrounds investigate how the vast sociopolitical changes of the post-World War II era affected these women and how the ensuing events influe ..."
"Book by Shifra M. Goldman, Marcos Sanchez-Tranquilino, David R. Maciel, Harry Gamboa, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Victor A. Sorell, Jacinto Quirarte"
Homegrown Engaged Cultural Criticism by Bell Hooks, AmaliaMesa-Bains 144 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-75743-0, ISBN: 1-351-75743-1
"We went wherever anyone would invite us, and we'd share what we knew about
her. This project eventually resulted in a Day of the Dead exhibition dedicated to
Frida. And this was the first time, in 1978, that a group of Chicano artists created
works of art around Frida Kahlo, and her life. And the night of the opening
Hayden Herrera came. She knew the work that we were doing, or she had heard
about it. Ironically Hayden Herrera, who ..."
Home Grown Conversations on Race And Culture by Bell Hooks, AmaliaMesa-Bains Hardcover, 175 Pages, Published 2014 by South End Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89608-760-6, ISBN: 0-89608-760-3
"Provocative conversations between feminist critic bell hooks and Chicana artist Amalia Mesa-Bains on politics, power, creativity."
"Amparo's touching family story and the implications Of her Spanish—speaking
background raise cultural and linguistic questions about this student. ... Their
superficial English lacks the deep constructs of English mastery that allow more
complex use of English in problem solving, contextual reading, ... (Schools
lacking Spanish-language assessments tend to fall back on testing these
Children in English.) ..."
"Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes chronicles the blossoming of Asian American art and anticipates the growing democratization of American art and culture. Pairing work by twenty-four contemporary Asian American visual artists with responses provocatively drawn from cultural critics, other artists, activists, and intellectuals, this book explores themes of geographical movement, the sexuality of Asian bodies, colonization, miscegenation, hybrid fo ..."
"For over a decade, Dana Salvo has traveled throughout the central highlands and southern states of Mexico with his family. Welcomed into the homes of rural people, including Purpechan, Chamulan, and Zinacantan Indians, as few have been before, Salvo was permitted the rare privilege of photographing their private and deeply personal home environments. Central to each interior was the altarcito, or home altar. These dazzling large-format ..."
1991 Adaline Kent Award Exhibition Mildred Howard : ten little children standing in a line (one got shot, and then there were nine) by Mildred Howard, Judith Bettelheim, AmaliaMesa-Bains Paperback, 31 Pages, Published 1991 by Walter/Mcbean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute ISBN-13: 978-0-930495-10-7, ISBN: 0-930495-10-1
"Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (one got shot, and then there were nine) is
dedicated to the memory of those children of Soweto. In addition to the staff of the
Walter/McBean Gallery, I would like to especially thank the following individuals:
Larz Allen; Bronwyn Bevan; Violet Fields-James; Joe Galea; Antonio Grunwaldt;
Ameer and Timiza Joseph-Howard; Lynn Rankin; Jos Sances; Susan
Schwartzenberg; Maria Vella; and Sven Wiede ..."