Lalo Alcaraz: Political Cartooning in the Latino Community by Héctor D. Fernandez L’Hoeste

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 1044-1047
Author(s):  
Katlin Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Latino Community ◽  
Political Cartooning

Expanding Language and Cultural Competence in Advanced Heritage- and Foreign-Language Learners through Community Engagement and Work with the Arts

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-280
Author(s):  
Maria Luisa Parra
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Latino Community

The purpose of this article is to describe the methodology and pedagogical practices of an advanced language course, Spanish and the Community,that addresses the strengths and needs of both Spanish heritage language learners and foreign language learners in classrooms that contain both populations, i.e., in mixed classrooms. Focused on the Latino experience in the United States, the course’s main goals are to advance translingual competence, transcultural critical thinking, and social consciousness in both groups of students. Three effective and interrelated pedagogical approaches are proposed: (a) community service as a vehicle for social engagement with the Latino community; (b) the multiliteracies approach (New London Group,1996), with emphasis on work with art; and (c) border and critical pedagogy drawn from several authors in the heritage language field (Aparicio, 1997; Correa, 2011; Ducar, 2008; Irwin, 1996; Leeman, 2005; Leeman &Rabin, 2001; Martínez &Schwartz, 2012) and from Henry Giroux and Paulo Freire’s work. The effectiveness of this combined approach is demonstrated in students’ final art projects, in which they: (a) critically reflect on key issues related to the Latino community; (b) integrate knowledge about the Latino experience with their own personal story; (c) become aware of their relationship to the Latino community; and (d) express their ideas about their creative artifact in elaborated written texts in Spanish (the project’s written component).

Politics of visual discourse in China: the corruption cartoon

2021 ◽  
pp. 147035722110588
Author(s):  
Yingchi Chu
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Political Cartooning ◽  
Official Corruption

This article investigates single-panel cartoons portraying official corruption in China’s longest- running state-owned cartoon newspaper Cartoon Weekly ( Fengci yu youmo). A total of 433 cartoons are identified as relating to corrupt officialdom between 2012 and 2019 in the wake of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption signature policy. In contrast with the individualizing critique of political cartooning in liberal democracies, the corpus of corruption cartoons investigated in this article is argued as a didactic form of visual schematization in a pseudo-self-critical discourse typically buttressed by verbal reading instructions. To support this claim, the article addresses its politics of visual discourse by employing Peircean hypoiconicity, consisting of direct resemblance, diagrammatic schematization and metaphoric displacement. Accordingly, the article identifies three major features of corruption cartoons as anonymization of direct resemblance, visual schematization of policy and metaphoric displacement of conventional symbols.

scholarly journals Latinas for Trump Analysis of Processes of Identification and the Use of Narratives to Construct Subject-Positions

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-214
Author(s):  
Mayela Zambrano
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The United States ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Political Preference ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Latino Community ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThe public and commercial spheres constantly address the largest ethnic minority in the United States, people with ancestry or from a Latin American country, as a homogenous group under the ethnopolitical terms “Latinos,” “Hispanics,” and even “Mexicans.” This panethnic view, and the negative stereotypes associated with it, was especially visible during the 2016 presidential election. While the majority of Latinos found Donald Trump’s remarks on “Mexicans” offensive to the Latin community as a whole, a large number of people still supported his opinions, even those belonging to the “Latino” community. Even more so, women of Latino heritage still supported a nominee that went against their own advance in society given his constant misogynistic comments. In this essay, I analyze the groundings for this apparent contradiction in the preference for said candidate. I argue that these women’s political preference is a tool with which they build their identity in the U.S. Besides, I explore the ways in which individuals linguistically construct their own identity in three ways (i) by actively doing the identification instead of merely receiving it by an unknown agent; (ii) by choosing the self-representation of their preference, and (iii) by finding commonalities and bonding with other individuals they deem part of their group. Through this approach, I analyze semiotic processes, such as intertextuality, use of pronouns, and discourse alignment, that are used to construct identifications of the self that go beyond imposed categories, such as gender and ethnicity.

scholarly journals Diffusion of cancer education information through a Latino community health advisor program

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 135-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana M. Navarro ◽  
Rema Raman ◽  
Lori J. McNicholas ◽  
Oralia Loza
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Cancer Education ◽  
Latino Community ◽  
Community Health Advisor

When José Met Sally: Chicano Theatre in L.A. at Grassroots and Mainstream

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (48) ◽  
pp. 356-366
Author(s):  
Eugene van Erven
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Southern California ◽  
American Studies ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Breeding Ground ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Community Theatre ◽  
American Drama ◽  
Latino Community

Playscript development programmes have been a significant breeding ground for new American drama since the mid'sixties, and in 1986 the Chicano playwright and director José Cruz González started a playwright development workshop specifically for the Latino community. Here, Eugene van Erven provides a bipolar view of the current Latino theatre scene in southern California by documenting the tenth anniversary session of González' Hispanic Playwrights Project at South Coast Rep, and at the same takes a wider look at grassroots community theatre initiatives in the Chicano neighbourhoods of Los Angeles. Eugene van Erven teaches in the American Studies programme at Utrecht University. Author of The Playful Revolution (Indiana University Press, 1992) and Radical People's Theatre (Indiana UP, 1988), he also designs and produces intercultural theatre projects.

scholarly journals Feasibility of an Alzheimer's disease knowledge intervention in the Latino community

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 747-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Perales ◽  
W. Todd Moore ◽  
Cielo Fernandez ◽  
Daniel Chavez ◽  
Mariana Ramirez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Disease Knowledge ◽  
Latino Community
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