http://www.politicalmediareview.org An Independent Review Site for Social Justice Media Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:02:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.politicalmediareview.org/2009/11/working-from-within-chicana-and-chicano-activist-educators-in-whitestream-schools/ http://www.politicalmediareview.org/2009/11/working-from-within-chicana-and-chicano-activist-educators-in-whitestream-schools/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:40:09 +0000 politicalmediareview http://www.politicalmediareview.org/?p=3387

A peculiar tension has always existed between activist educators working in public and higher education. Maybe it is the contradiction of cultivating consciousness of youth while being on the payroll of institutions (and certainly the state) that seldom believe in such politically minded pursuits.]]> http://www.politicalmediareview.org/2009/11/working-from-within-chicana-and-chicano-activist-educators-in-whitestream-schools/feed/ 0 http://www.politicalmediareview.org/2009/04/chicana-and-chicano-art-protestarte/ http://www.politicalmediareview.org/2009/04/chicana-and-chicano-art-protestarte/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:43:10 +0000 politicalmediareview http://www.politicalmediareview.org/?p=1033

Mao Tsetung was famously quoted as saying there was no such thing as art for art's sake, or art detached from politics. In Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte, Carlos Francisco Jackson probes such concepts, as well as their limits. Social justice-oriented creative expressions have proven a transformative force in many eras, from the Black Arts Movement to the explosion of Mexican-American humanities from the 1940s to 1970s. ]]> http://www.politicalmediareview.org/2009/04/chicana-and-chicano-art-protestarte/feed/ 0