Héctor Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Héctor Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Héctor |
| FAMILY NAME | Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2098-8012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Puerto Rico Maternal and Child Health Research Programs
Hurricanes and the Environmental Justice Island
This article presents an overview of our research team's disaster response to the massive destruction of Hurricanes, Irma and Maria, in September 2017, in light of the 120-year colonial legacy and long-term, widespread environmental contamination in Puerto Rico. Both local and federal governmental responses have been extremely inadequate, especially in light of the long-standing issues of environmental contamination throughout the island. Communi…
Les sociétés malades produisent leurs propres anticorps
Contribution for the teaching of natural sciences
Within the context of Mapuche families and communities, this paper focuses on the relationship between knowledge and educational methods in teaching the natural sciences. It aims to identify educational methods that have been forged and re-forged in connection with the social, cultural, political, economical and spiritual development experienced by Mapuche communities. Our educational research methodology is based on a qualitative approach in ord…
Saberes Educativos Mapuches
Este artculo expone saberes educativos mapuches que forman parte de la educacin familiar. El objetivo es contribuir con el debate epistmico de contenidos educativos indgenas de educacin intercultural, para superar su desconocimiento en escuelas situadas en los contextos de vida mapuche de hoy da. Se observa que el desconocimiento de los saberes educativos mapuches dificulta la implementacin de un enfoque educativo ms adaptado a los conocimientos …
Articulating Mapuche Cultural Knowledge with School Education in Science
A través de este estudio se busca analizar procesos de articulación entre el conoci- miento cultural mapuche y el conocimiento escolar, en la práctica educativa de docentes y educadores tradicionales –kimches– en el sector de aprendizaje de la ciencia. El enfoque metodológico es la investigación educativa, utilizándose en el procesa- miento de los datos la distribución de frecuencias y el análisis de contenido.
Agapé Christian Reconciliation Conversations
To understand how homophobia manifests itself through a Latino cultural lens of identity, a program was designed to address the issues connecting homosexual identity, culture, and Christianity. The program included screening of one of two documentary films about lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) identity and family relations. This was followed by group sharing and biblical reflections. Participants (N = 122) were asked to complete measures of homo…
The Internet as recruitment tool for HIV studies
Although use of the Internet as a vehicle for HIV/STI research is increasing, its viability to recruit at-risk populations such as Hispanic men who have sex with men (HMSM) to participate in community-based HIV studies is in its infancy. We report on the first 171 participants enrolled in an ongoing study exploring use of the Internet to recruit Hispanic men who have sex with men (HMSM) living in Miami-Dade County, Florida to participate in commu…
Alguns aspectos da indumentária da crioula baiana
O presente trabalho abrange parte de um tema de pesquisa que, ha alguns anos, prende nossa atencao. Numa sociedade como a nossa, formada por colonizacao, e algumas dezenas de anos de independencia politica nao chegaram a apagar a orientacao economico-social que proporcionou ao regime patriarcal sua mais ampla e pacifica expansao. Nesse regime, a mulher nasceu, cresceu e – com exclusao da professora – passou a vida limitada a um mundo tao alheio a…
"I Don't Think I Exist"
I conducted this interview with Richard Rodriguez in February of 2000 in his San Francisco Victorian home. Born in 1944, Rodriguez has crafted a career encompassing the production of literary as well as journalistic discourse. Rodriguez first came to national prominence with the publication of Hunger of Memory in 1982, a work which would become part of a triptych alongside Days of Obligations: An Argument with my Mexican Father and, most recently…
Chicano Doppelgänger
Research Article| November 01 2001 Chicano Doppelgänger: Robert Rodriguez’s First Remake and Secondary Revision Hector A. Torres Hector A. Torres Hector Torres, an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico, is the author of “Space, Difference, Mestizaje: The Erasure Mark in Contemporary Chicano/a Critical Discourse” in U. S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives, edited by Francisco A. Lomeli and Karin I…
The Ethnographic Component in Chicano/a Literary Discourse
Postmodern ethnography is the model of the Humanities I trace in order interrelate the inheritance of the erasure mark by contemporary Chicana and Chicano writers. These writers write under erasure because they are aware that too much politics can spoil the story but so can not enough aesthetics. Steering between the exigencies of politics and aesthetics, these contemporary writers are producing a literary discourse that contests Anglo America's …
Saberes Educativos Mapuches
Este artculo expone saberes educativos mapuches que forman parte de la educacin familiar. El objetivo es contribuir con el debate epistmico de contenidos educativos indgenas de educacin intercultural, para superar su desconocimiento en escuelas situadas en los contextos de vida mapuche de hoy da. Se observa que el desconocimiento de los saberes educativos mapuches dificulta la implementacin de un enfoque educativo ms adaptado a los conocimientos …
Alguns aspectos da indumentária da crioula baiana
O presente trabalho abrange parte de um tema de pesquisa que, ha alguns anos, prende nossa atencao. Numa sociedade como a nossa, formada por colonizacao, e algumas dezenas de anos de independencia politica nao chegaram a apagar a orientacao economico-social que proporcionou ao regime patriarcal sua mais ampla e pacifica expansao. Nesse regime, a mulher nasceu, cresceu e – com exclusao da professora – passou a vida limitada a um mundo tao alheio a…
Contribution for the teaching of natural sciences
Within the context of Mapuche families and communities, this paper focuses on the relationship between knowledge and educational methods in teaching the natural sciences. It aims to identify educational methods that have been forged and re-forged in connection with the social, cultural, political, economical and spiritual development experienced by Mapuche communities. Our educational research methodology is based on a qualitative approach in ord…
Agapé Christian Reconciliation Conversations
To understand how homophobia manifests itself through a Latino cultural lens of identity, a program was designed to address the issues connecting homosexual identity, culture, and Christianity. The program included screening of one of two documentary films about lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) identity and family relations. This was followed by group sharing and biblical reflections. Participants (N = 122) were asked to complete measures of homo…
The Ethnographic Component in Chicano/a Literary Discourse
Postmodern ethnography is the model of the Humanities I trace in order interrelate the inheritance of the erasure mark by contemporary Chicana and Chicano writers. These writers write under erasure because they are aware that too much politics can spoil the story but so can not enough aesthetics. Steering between the exigencies of politics and aesthetics, these contemporary writers are producing a literary discourse that contests Anglo America's …
Chicano Doppelgänger
Research Article| November 01 2001 Chicano Doppelgänger: Robert Rodriguez’s First Remake and Secondary Revision Hector A. Torres Hector A. Torres Hector Torres, an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico, is the author of “Space, Difference, Mestizaje: The Erasure Mark in Contemporary Chicano/a Critical Discourse” in U. S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives, edited by Francisco A. Lomeli and Karin I…
"I Don't Think I Exist"
I conducted this interview with Richard Rodriguez in February of 2000 in his San Francisco Victorian home. Born in 1944, Rodriguez has crafted a career encompassing the production of literary as well as journalistic discourse. Rodriguez first came to national prominence with the publication of Hunger of Memory in 1982, a work which would become part of a triptych alongside Days of Obligations: An Argument with my Mexican Father and, most recently…
The Internet as recruitment tool for HIV studies
Although use of the Internet as a vehicle for HIV/STI research is increasing, its viability to recruit at-risk populations such as Hispanic men who have sex with men (HMSM) to participate in community-based HIV studies is in its infancy. We report on the first 171 participants enrolled in an ongoing study exploring use of the Internet to recruit Hispanic men who have sex with men (HMSM) living in Miami-Dade County, Florida to participate in commu…
Alguns aspectos da indumentária da crioula baiana
O presente trabalho abrange parte de um tema de pesquisa que, ha alguns anos, prende nossa atencao. Numa sociedade como a nossa, formada por colonizacao, e algumas dezenas de anos de independencia politica nao chegaram a apagar a orientacao economico-social que proporcionou ao regime patriarcal sua mais ampla e pacifica expansao. Nesse regime, a mulher nasceu, cresceu e – com exclusao da professora – passou a vida limitada a um mundo tao alheio a…
Agapé Christian Reconciliation Conversations
To understand how homophobia manifests itself through a Latino cultural lens of identity, a program was designed to address the issues connecting homosexual identity, culture, and Christianity. The program included screening of one of two documentary films about lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) identity and family relations. This was followed by group sharing and biblical reflections. Participants (N = 122) were asked to complete measures of homo…
Articulating Mapuche Cultural Knowledge with School Education in Science
A través de este estudio se busca analizar procesos de articulación entre el conoci- miento cultural mapuche y el conocimiento escolar, en la práctica educativa de docentes y educadores tradicionales –kimches– en el sector de aprendizaje de la ciencia. El enfoque metodológico es la investigación educativa, utilizándose en el procesa- miento de los datos la distribución de frecuencias y el análisis de contenido.
Contribution for the teaching of natural sciences
Within the context of Mapuche families and communities, this paper focuses on the relationship between knowledge and educational methods in teaching the natural sciences. It aims to identify educational methods that have been forged and re-forged in connection with the social, cultural, political, economical and spiritual development experienced by Mapuche communities. Our educational research methodology is based on a qualitative approach in ord…
Saberes Educativos Mapuches
Este artculo expone saberes educativos mapuches que forman parte de la educacin familiar. El objetivo es contribuir con el debate epistmico de contenidos educativos indgenas de educacin intercultural, para superar su desconocimiento en escuelas situadas en los contextos de vida mapuche de hoy da. Se observa que el desconocimiento de los saberes educativos mapuches dificulta la implementacin de un enfoque educativo ms adaptado a los conocimientos …
Hurricanes and the Environmental Justice Island
This article presents an overview of our research team's disaster response to the massive destruction of Hurricanes, Irma and Maria, in September 2017, in light of the 120-year colonial legacy and long-term, widespread environmental contamination in Puerto Rico. Both local and federal governmental responses have been extremely inadequate, especially in light of the long-standing issues of environmental contamination throughout the island. Communi…
Les sociétés malades produisent leurs propres anticorps
Impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Puerto Rico Maternal and Child Health Research Programs
Sociology (6 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (3 works) · History (3 works) · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)