Conducted by Sumita S. Chakravarty A former cartoonist and two-time Emmy-award winning writer for the Children’s Television Workshop flagship show, Sesame Street, Christian Clark works for the United Nations where he has more than 25 years of experience in communications, advocacy and public information, leading campaigns for the BBC and the UN in North America, …
— by Pamela Vasquez Torres Pamela Vazquez Torres is a Mexican art historian living in the Twin Cities since 2017. She is driven by the potential of art for political action and social change. Most of the store fronts that were boarded up during the Minneapolis uprising are still up and continue to appear in …
The Power of Cartoons in Global Education: An Interview with Christian Clark Conducted by Sumita S. Chakravarty A former cartoonist and two-time Emmy-award winning writer for the Children’s Television Workshop flagship show, Sesame Street, Christian Clark works for the United Nations where he has more than 25 years of experience in communications, …
Notes about Home . . . in Minnesota by Pamela Vázquez Torres The dignity of a safe home shouldn’t be determined by color of skin or country of birth. The ongoing social movement in Minneapolis, now spread out nationally and internationally, is a reclamation of home. Opposed to corporate media coverage of events, reactions by …
by Pamela Vázquez Torres The dignity of a safe home shouldn’t be determined by color of skin or country of birth. The ongoing social movement in Minneapolis, now spread out nationally and internationally, is a reclamation of home. Opposed to corporate media coverage of events, reactions by local artists to the killing of George Floyd …
Documenting our Time: The Paradoxes of Belonging by Sumita S. Chakravarty Ideas of home and belonging– long a staple of migration as lived reality and structure of consciousness in that home is often defined in the very act of leaving it– have once again become food for thought during the coronavirus pandemic. One of the …
by Sumita S. Chakravarty Ideas of home and belonging, long a staple of migration as lived reality and structure of consciousness in that home is often defined in the very act of leaving it, have once again become food for thought during the coronavirus pandemic. One of the earliest impacts as institutions started to …
The Migration of Fashion, Part 1: The Colonizing Gaze and Counter-Gaze Written by Sandra Mathey García-Rada The Latin American Fashion Summit platform created in 2018 aims to help Latin American fashion brands and designers join the global stage. Through different initiatives that bring together powerful industry figures, the main one being a yearly conference and …
The next time you read this newsletter, there will have been several votes cast that will give some indication of what issues, policies and ideologies will drive the future direction of politics in America. First, the Iowa caucuses will be held on Tuesday February 7th, followed by the New Hampshire primary on February 11th. These …
Retooling Heimat By Berkley Wilson “Heimat is a crucial aspect in German self-perceptions; it represents the fusional anti-Enlightenment thinking in German Romanticism; it is the idealization of the pre-modern within the modern; it unites geographic and imaginary conceptions of space; it is a provincializing, but disalienating, part of German bourgeois culture; it reflects modern German …
Abstract: “This article analyzes two short documentaries showed at Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (Austin, Texas) and the way they discuss the symbolic meaning as well as the implications of consumption for U.S. Latinos at the personal, social, cultural, and economic levels. Shopping to Belong (Irene Sosa, 2007) insists on the performance Latinos put on in order to …
Sarah Lopez American Quarterly Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 71, Number 1, March 2019 pp. 105-134 10.1353/aq.2019.0005 Abstract: Texas has more migrant detention centers and migrant prisons than any other state in the Union. This essay focuses on the construction and design of migrant detention facilities in Texas since the 1960s in relation to immigration …
From ARTNET.com: Artist Cosimo Cavallaro is helping President Donald Trump build his controversial border wall between the US and Mexico—but his barrier is constructed not from steel and concrete, but from blocks of cotija cheese. “I don’t like walls,” said the immigrant artist in a video promoting the project. “This is a wall that I’m willing to live with. …
From ARTNET.com: “The art project, which has been a media sensation, is the work of architecture studio Rael San Fratello, a partnership between San Jose State interior design faculty member Virginia San Fratello and UC Berkeley architecture professor Ronald Rael, author of the 2017 book Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary. Ten years in the making—the duo drew up …
The New Yorker featured an article about Syrian disbursement across the Middle east and Europe. The project tracks several Syrians, including a poet and a photographer as they set up life in new lands. Last year, as I began to map where Syrian artists had gone, a sculptor friend of mine who is based in …
Ronald Rael, Borderwall As Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017) From the Publisher: “Through a series of propositions suggesting that the nearly seven hundred miles of wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling, the book …
Berlin based non-profit CoCulture is working with the Syrian diaspora artistic community to build connections and cohesions to provide creative outlets and structure to a traumatized community in search of social stability in unfamiliar places. More from CoCulture: CoCulture e.V. is a Berlin-based non-profit organization founded by artist and cultural activist Khaled Barakeh in 2017, …
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is featuring an exhibit on mass migration by Richard Mosse, a documentary photographer from Ireland. The exhibit runs from October 26, 2019 – Feb. 17, 2020. More from the SFMOMA: From 2014 to 2016, artist Richard Mosse documented the mass migration and displacement of people unfolding across Europe, …
The Los Angeles Times featured a story about African Migrants attempting to reach the southern US border to seek asylum. According the the report, over 4,779 Africans have were detained by Mexican authorities in the first seven months of 2019. Migrants told the LATimes: “We just want to get out of here, and arrive to …
Budweiser founder Adolphus Busch’s immigrated to America from Germany. During the 2017 Super Bowl, in the midst of Donald Trump’s chaotic policies banning muslims and detaining child migrants, Budweiser sought a message of inclusion and a call to heritage with this ad:
Jigsaw, a UK based fashion clothier, featured a campaign citing the ways immigrants help the UK fashion industry stay competitive. With Brexit looming, the company is reaching out to core cosmopolitan customers with a message of philosophical inclusion and association.
Always seeking to stir up conversation, the United Colors of Benetton featured an ad of migrants seeking help in crossing the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe. Read more from BBC….
by Elvira Blanco By mid-2019, the number of Venezuelans to migrate since the beginning of the Chavista regime in 1999 has reached four million. The phenomenon increased dramatically over the past 4 years, with people fleeing food and healthcare shortages, violence, skyrocketing inflation, and abysmally low wages. The consequences are felt across Latin America, as …
Bloomberg News recently published data looking at global migration patterns by country. It’s a comprehensive, interactive data visualization tool that illuminates the extraordinary number of people on the move. The world is on the move as never before. Migrants, defined as people living outside their country of birth whether for work, to follow a family …
The Phillips Collection in Washington DC recently wrapped up an exhibit in partnership with the New Museum in New York, exploring “both real and imaginary geographies, reconstructing personal and collective tales of migration.” More information from the Phillips Collection here… When Home Won’t Let You Stay The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston is featuring …
The Migration of Religions, part 2 of 2Bali: A Hieroglyphics of the Sacred By Sumita Chakravarty Religion, one might say, is the struggle for the soul of a place. In Bali, this struggle still manifests itself between an externally-driven economy of tourism and an internally-driven (for want of a better term) sensibility of the sacred. To …
Directed by Hassan Fazili, ‘Midnight Traveler’ documents his family’s journey as they’re forced to leave Afghanistan after the Taliban put a bounty on his head. From The Guardian: “Midnight Traveler is a film not only of the Fazili family’s own words, but of their own creation – what one would record of a family trip, …
The HBO network show ‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ breaks down the current state of legal migration in the United States after a summer of lies about the migration process from the president of the United States. Oliver addresses the the concept of the ‘invisible wall,’ the slowdown in the bureaucratic process of approving …
Reporter Jason DeParle’s new book, ‘A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves’, attempts to capture the global systemic challenges emanating from mass migration. In this interview with NPR ‘All Things Considered’ host Ari Shapiro, DeParle explains why he believes migration is the defining story of the 21st Century. Read more at NPR… …
Hey @ukhomeoffice 👋. Nice new ad campaign you have today, plastered all over London Underground. Honesty is the best policy. 👌 #EndtheHostileEnvironment#WorldRefugeeDay2019#RefugeeWeek pic.twitter.com/I65Bc180GI — Our Future Now (@OurFutureNow_) June 21, 2019 The UK activist group “Our Future Now” launched a guerilla marketing campaign calling out the UK home offices treatment of migrants. With more than …
THE MIGRATION OF RELIGIONS (PART 1 of 2) BY: SUMITA CHAKRAVARTY The journalist and food writer, Yasmin Khan, said recently that food is a vehicle to understand how cultures interact in areas of conflict. Religion, on the other hand, is so steeped in histories of conflict that our perception, warranted or not, of religion …
