JaimeRafael News
Grad School: The First Full Week
Classes have been in session for the first full week and I’ve already learned so much as a first year grad student. So much in fact, I can’t even try to go through it all here. Here are four of the most important tips that have helped me so far. Books: Get your book lists [...]
If You’re Gonna Play In Texas…
As I near the end of my first week at the University of Texas I can’t help but feel privileged for the opportunities I have in front of me. The University of Texas at Austin awards the most Ph.D’s to Latinos than any other university in the United States. I’m doing my Master of [...]
SEO & Writing for the Web
SEO URL Structure – Best Practices
Search Engine Optimization is something that I’m fairly new at. I know some of the basics – define your meta data using relevent keywords, descriptions, and then be sure to use those exact words at least three time in your content. Managing One-Page Websites for GoLocal247.com has given me much more experience working with SEO [...]
Ruminations on Grad School
Getting to Know the Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin
I have always loved going to the library. As a kid it was a place of wonder and amazement. Now, as a graduate student and scholar, I have an entirely new respect for libraries as repositories of our culture and history – in all of forms. Before I started my M.A at the University of [...]
Sexual Violence in the Borderlands: One project I’m working on
I never thought I would say this, but I look forward to going to a class and discussing the pervasive brutality that reinforces modern power structures. Capitalism, democracy, and the family are the social structures have the most influence in formative Western ideology. One way that each of these systems of dominance are created and [...]
Writing About Writing
Quotes out of Context: José Antonio Villareal’s Pocho
“My teacher says we are all Americans,” said one of the girls, who was in the first grade. She stood and began to recite, in a monotone, “I pledge allegiance to the flag –” “You! Sit down!” said the father, in a loud voice, and laughed. “You are an American with that black face? Just [...]
