Novelist Matt Mendez Barely Misses a Thing about Chicano Youth Culture
by Kimi Eisele For a time, the novelist Matt Mendez had an office at Denny’s. Late at night, after his shift as an aircraft technician … Read more
Sweat Equity: How a Phoenix Neighborhood Built a Community Center
by Kimi Eisele Late one morning in the Maryvale neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona, a group of women sits around a classroom table listening to interviews … Read more
Confianza en la Frontera: A Cultural Glimpse at the Nogales Produce Industry
Text by Nicholas Hartmann, Photos by Alex Jimenez In 2015-16, SFA Folklorist-in-Residence Nicholas Hartmann carried out an ethnographic study of the Nogales Produce Industry. The … Read more
ARTIFACT: Barbed Wire
ARTIFACT: Barbed Wire SIZE: 12.5 to 15.5-gauge steel wire, various lengths, 2 point or 4 point FOLKLIFE: Occupational folklife, ranching, military, World War I & … Read more
Linking Learning to Life on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Story and photographs by Lisa O’Neill Maiko Zambrano, a longtime volunteer with humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths, drives south from Tucson, Arizona toward the U.S.-Mexico … Read more