Embracing the Choque

Embracing the Choque

  Un choque. Choque pi ta pom ta ria. Choque pom. Pi ta. Pi pi pi ta. Ta ria. Choque pom. Ta ria ria pi ta ria ria pi ta ria ria pi ta choque pom. Pom pom. The onomatopoeia of the castañuelas speaks out. They are the disruptive force in the colonially induced quiet of...

Son Útiles

The sheepherder watched his flock by day, traveling many miles while the sheep grazed on the range. As his flock pastured, he sat on a rock or on his coat; he whittled some object or composed songs of poetry until it was time to move the flock to water or better...

Teaching to Disrupt the Narrative of Presence

Migrations are processes that disrupt, reshape, and reconceptualize places and cultures through the movement of people. Who have been migrants and what are their stories as they journey from the regions they leave and into the regions they travel to and through? What...

Places, Words, Stories

  Migration and its disruptions define our experiences of home—and probably yours, too. It shapes a great deal of our personal and professional attentions. We were both born in D.C., extensions of the circuitous migrations of our respective families. We grew up...

Finding a Second Jia (Home)

So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed                        床前明月光 chuáng qián míng yuè guāng Could there have been a frost already                                       疑是地上霜 yí shì dì shàng shuāng Lifting my head to look / I found that it was moonlight           ...