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Crazy Quilt Activism
One of Nichols's father's most prized possessions is a vest that her mother made him. It uses scraps of ribbon with bits of velvet and satin sewn together in the tradition of a \"crazy quilt.\" Crazy quilts, an innovation of women's ingenuity and artistry, use the beautiful, odd remainders of other projects to create something valuable and unique. When she looks back on the last three years, her brain swirls trying to get a handle on what it has meant to try and \"do the work\" in pandemonious circumstances. In some ways, she felt like a pinball, bouncing from one opportunity to another. But really, she's not sure she likes the metaphor of the pinball. Yes, she felt thrown from one project to another, but not in a way that leaves her disconnected from each. She thinks the quilt--built of small moments, sewn together and decorated, the end product more than the sum of its parts--is a more apt comparison. In the fall of 2019, through a series of connections that she doesn't fully remember, she received a call from the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law (CHRCL).
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The Legacies of Patrimonial Patriarchalism: Contesting Political Legitimacy in Allende's Chile
In Chile, how citizens and political leaders have understood, incorporated, and contested the relationship between the familial and the political has been central to the development of their society. The author examines the ideological influence that familial beliefs had on the process of delegitimizing the presidency of Salvador Allende and legitimizing the military coup through an analysis of political rhetoric surrounding the mobilization of women in the March of the Empty Pots and Pans. The author argues that the march was a pivotal moment in which generalized beliefs about the state s responsibility for familial welfare, including protecting men s and women's familial roles, were transformed into a powerful critique against Allende and his government. The author shows how the arguments put forward by Allende's opponents drew on embedded beliefs about the relationship between families and politics to frame the emerging debate about the political legitimacy of President Allende.
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The sum of our days
\"Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul as she shares her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory--and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Afro-Descendant Family Sagas in Ponciá Vicencio and Daughters of the Stone
According to English literature scholar Lori Ween, in this genre \"the family is representative of their communities, sacrificing individuality for the broader goal of cultural representation\" (111). According to literary scholar Melissa Schindler, \"the idea of home, which can refer variously to a physical place one inhabits (with or without kin) to a figurative national or transnational community, walks the line between public and private, masculine and feminine, self and other, center and periphery\" (74). Though the novels examined in this article take place in Latin America, these Afro-descendent family sagas focus primarily on families of African heritage. [...]while the above-mentioned Latin American family sagas bring up questions of politics and the state, in the Afro-descendent family sagas questions of the state implicitly relate to the history of slavery. According to Ana Araujo, immediately after the end of slavery, countless former slaves did not leave the places where they resided, and \"several former slaves continued associating with their former masters, who attempted to keep economic and social ties with them or create new '(co)dependent relationships'\" (2).
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The resurrection of Victor Jara
This award-winning, feature-length film (produced by John Summa and directed by John Travers) documents the extraordinary life and legacy of iconic Chilean singer-songwriter, Victor Jara, executed in 1973 following a right-wing military coup. Cast includes members of legendary music groups Quilapayún and Inti-Illimani, plus artists Angel Parra, Judy Collins, Bono, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bernardo Palombo, León Gieco, and Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary). The first part of the film explores, through friends and family, Victor's music, life and the social context in which he emerges as a leader of a vanguard cultural movement for social change in Chile, South America. The second part of the film captures the coup and post-coup periods, and Victor's profound impact on activists, artists and musicians of all ages inside and outside Chile, featuring moving footage of his reburial in 2009 in Chile.
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Rita Braver Is Talking With Bestselling Author Isabel Allende
If anyone knows what it takes to capture readers' attention, it is Isabel Allende. The 80-year-old Allende has filled more than two dozen books with passionate and courageous characters, more than 74 million copies sold, translated into some 40 languages. Women and girls play key roles in \"The Wind Knows My Name,\" Allende's latest novel.
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Magical Realist Moments in Malín Alegría's Border Town Series
In Malín Alegría's Border Town, the first young adult fiction series set on the Mexico-United States border, magical realist moments subvert power relations and reveal that popular beliefs are legitimate forms of knowledge. Magical realist occurrences demonstrate the importance of knowing about Mexican American folklore and folk saints such as bailando con el diablo [dancing with the devil], las lechuzas [bewitched owls], La Llorona [the weeping woman], and la Santa Muerte [Saint Death].
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The Engendering of Anticommunism and Fear in Chile's 1964 Presidential Election
Power examines US propaganda efforts to scare Chilean voters away from supporting Salvador Allende in Chile's 1964 presidential election. The campaign attempted to convince Chileans that Allende's triumph would lead to the destruction of the family and undermine women's roles as mothers.
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