Yolanda Chávez Leyva
Biographic Data
| ID | 697793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yolanda Chávez Leyva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yolanda Chávez |
| FAMILY NAME | Leyva |
| SIGNATURE | LEYVA Y C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5037-7055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Voices from La Frontera
Established in 1972, the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Institute of Oral History (IOH) holds the largest collection of border-related oral histories in the United States. Containing interviews dating back to the 1960s, the collection is particularly strong with themes related to labor, immigration, the Bracero Program, and the Mexican Revolution. This article explores the history of the U.S. Border Patrol as gleaned from UTEP oral histori…
Weaving Has a Heartbeat
Behind each beautiful painting is a child longing to be free”: Deep visual listening and children’s art during times of crisis
“Deep visual listening and children’s art during times of crisis” explores a way to understand children’s art created amidst crisis as well as the meanings we can discern from it through the lens of the “Uncaged Art Tornillo Detention Center” exhibit. In 2018, the U.S. government opened a detention center to hold youth who either crossed the border by themselves or were separated from their families through Trump’s Zero Tolerance policy. The yout…
Oral History in Latin America: Unlocking the Spoken Archive . By David Carey Jr
In Oral History in Latin America, David Carey Jr. presents a provocative book meant to “provide a synthesis of the impressive range of oral history scholarship ... that also serves as a practical gui...
Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750–1846 . By Amy M. Porter
T heir Lives, Their Wills is a comprehensive study of women’s everyday lives as gleaned from their wills. Focusing on five settlements—Saltillo, San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, San Fernando de Béxar, Santa Fe, and El Paso del Norte—Amy M. Porter argues that, despite rigid gender expectations, women on the frontier had the opportunity to act outside of that patriarchal structure, exerting their own power and influence in areas such as spirituality …
Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and the Writing at the Boundaries of the United States
Journal Article Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and the Writing at the Boundaries of the United States Get access Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and the Writing at the Boundaries of the United States. New World Series. By Sadowski-Smith Claudia. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xi + 187 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $57.50, cloth; $20.00, paper.) Yolanda Chávez Leyva Yolanda Chávez Leyva University of Texas…
José Limón and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance
Few books focus on renowned dancer, choreographer, and teacher José Acadio Limón (1908 – 72), despite his lifetime achievements in modern dance. In José Limón and La Malinche, artists as well as scholars from fields as diverse as history, anthropology, Spanish and Mexican American studies, and dance studies come together to explore Limón and one of his most famous works, La Malinche. This dance, composed in the late 1940s, features one of the leg…
The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico
The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico and Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland Get access The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico. Edited by Gonzales-Berry Erlinda Maciel David R.. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $19.95 paper.)Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland. By Gandert Miguel, photographer, with essays by En…
I Go to Fight for Social Justice”: Children as Revolutionaries in the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 was the explosive culmination of decades of economic transformation under the modernization program of Porfirio Díaz. Governmental policies intended to “modernize” Mexico led to tragic results for the majority of the population, especially the rural poor. Paradoxically, along with its often indiscriminate violence and destruction, the revolution also served as a creative force, planting in the era's children, for in…
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I Go to Fight for Social Justice”: Children as Revolutionaries in the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 was the explosive culmination of decades of economic transformation under the modernization program of Porfirio Díaz. Governmental policies intended to “modernize” Mexico led to tragic results for the majority of the population, especially the rural poor. Paradoxically, along with its often indiscriminate violence and destruction, the revolution also served as a creative force, planting in the era's children, for in…
The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico
The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico and Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland Get access The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico. Edited by Gonzales-Berry Erlinda Maciel David R.. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $19.95 paper.)Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland. By Gandert Miguel, photographer, with essays by En…
Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and the Writing at the Boundaries of the United States
Journal Article Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and the Writing at the Boundaries of the United States Get access Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and the Writing at the Boundaries of the United States. New World Series. By Sadowski-Smith Claudia. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. xi + 187 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $57.50, cloth; $20.00, paper.) Yolanda Chávez Leyva Yolanda Chávez Leyva University of Texas…
José Limón and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance
Few books focus on renowned dancer, choreographer, and teacher José Acadio Limón (1908 – 72), despite his lifetime achievements in modern dance. In José Limón and La Malinche, artists as well as scholars from fields as diverse as history, anthropology, Spanish and Mexican American studies, and dance studies come together to explore Limón and one of his most famous works, La Malinche. This dance, composed in the late 1940s, features one of the leg…
Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750–1846 . By Amy M. Porter
T heir Lives, Their Wills is a comprehensive study of women’s everyday lives as gleaned from their wills. Focusing on five settlements—Saltillo, San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, San Fernando de Béxar, Santa Fe, and El Paso del Norte—Amy M. Porter argues that, despite rigid gender expectations, women on the frontier had the opportunity to act outside of that patriarchal structure, exerting their own power and influence in areas such as spirituality …
Oral History in Latin America: Unlocking the Spoken Archive . By David Carey Jr
In Oral History in Latin America, David Carey Jr. presents a provocative book meant to “provide a synthesis of the impressive range of oral history scholarship ... that also serves as a practical gui...
Behind each beautiful painting is a child longing to be free”: Deep visual listening and children’s art during times of crisis
“Deep visual listening and children’s art during times of crisis” explores a way to understand children’s art created amidst crisis as well as the meanings we can discern from it through the lens of the “Uncaged Art Tornillo Detention Center” exhibit. In 2018, the U.S. government opened a detention center to hold youth who either crossed the border by themselves or were separated from their families through Trump’s Zero Tolerance policy. The yout…
Voices from La Frontera
Established in 1972, the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Institute of Oral History (IOH) holds the largest collection of border-related oral histories in the United States. Containing interviews dating back to the 1960s, the collection is particularly strong with themes related to labor, immigration, the Bracero Program, and the Mexican Revolution. This article explores the history of the U.S. Border Patrol as gleaned from UTEP oral histori…
Weaving Has a Heartbeat
History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Art history (2 works)