COMMUNITY VISIONS — CINEMATIC NARRATIVES BY WOMEN
By Ariel Dougherty
“In intervening decades too few opportunities in the U.S. have existed for women to gain support for narrative filmmaking.”
ENCOUNTERING NEW MEXICO
By Darryl Wellington
“I was aware that New Mexico was heavily Indigenous and Hispanic. It did not lack people of color. But I soon learned I was not completely mistaken in immediately worrying how race was constructed here, in terms of post-colonial oppression, and whether the absence of blackness might mean the preeminence of whiteness.”
THE LAST MLK DAY
By Hakim Bellamy
“Dr. King gets significant and deserved credit for being one of the greatest orators of the 20th century, however he never gets his just due as a poet.”
INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE: A BRIEF LOOK AT PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES
By Matthew Contos
“From the daguerreotype to satellite imaging, photography has stood the test of time to emerge as one of the most fundamental technologies in history.”
A SWEET AND SPICY MEMORY: BISCOCHITOS IN NEW MEXICO CULTURE
By Vanessa Baca
“Biscochitos have a far deeper significance than being just sweet treats. They represent family roots. It is the rare Hispanic New Mexico family that does not have its own recipe for biscochitos.”
1867: A SNAPSHOT OF MILITARY OCCUPATION IN NEW MEXICO
By Ellen Dornan
“The 1867 U.S. Topo Bureau map showing the Old Territory and Military Department of New Mexico, ‘compiled in the Bureau of Topographic Engineers of the War Department chiefly for military purposes under the authority of the Secretary of War,’ captures New Mexico in the midst of one of the most violent and unhappy periods of its history.”
BEYOND THE MACABRE: EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HORROR
By Chrysta Wilson
“Edgar Allan Poe’s status as the father of contemporary horror is so fully entrenched in the American psyche that his portrait is instantly recognizable to people who have never read his work.”
CELEBRATING THE DEAD: DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS AND ALL HALLOWE’EN
By Nicolasa Chávez
“Many people do not know the origins of this fun – and fright-filled night, nor of the similarities its origins share with Día de los Muertos.”
MIGUEL TRUJILLO
By Gordon Bronitsky
“What was it about the postwar situation in New Mexico that encouraged Indians – and Trujillo in particular — to push for the right to vote?”
AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION: A MACHINE THAT DOES NOT RUN BY ITSELF
By Christian Fritz
“The protection of democracy is not simply the obligation of elected officials and the courts. Rather, the preservation of constitutional democracy rests on the willing engagement and widespread participation of the people…”