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Back to SearchFronteras: Sustainable fashion meets an iconic Chicano aesthetic in 'Runway Rasquachic'
Local fashion designers took high fashion to the streets last month to showcase clothes characterized as "rasquachic."
9 hours ago
Fronteras: How the dismantling of a key Voting Rights Act provision will affect Texas communities
The Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights law, banned racial discrimination in voting and enforced the 15th Amendment right for Black men to v…
1 week, 1 day ago
Fronteras: Essay collection ‘Migrant Heart’ details the power of forgetting and remembering
Author Reyna Grande writes about the struggles of assimilation and the healing powers of storytelling in her new memoir.
2 weeks ago
Fronteras: Author Reyna Grande reframes her traumatic immigration story in ‘Migrant Heart’
In her latest essay collection, author Reyna Grande reflects on her difficult experiences migrating to the U.S. from Mexico.
3 weeks ago
Fronteras: Why colonias exist and persist along the Texas-Mexico border
A new Brookings article examines the ways colonias in the Rio Grande Valley continue to be disinvested and what needs to be done to improve condition…
4 weeks ago
Fronteras: Cultural heritage as a tool to address and adapt to climate change
The Climate Heritage Network is an organization looking to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement by tackling climate change through heritage, ar…
1 month ago
Fronteras: ‘En vivo desde Saluté’ — Exhibit documents over two decades of iconic St. Mary’s bar
The exhibit showcases posters, pictures, flyers, and other memorabilia that were mainstays of Saluté International Bar for 25 years.
1 month, 1 week ago
Fronteras: ¿Habla civil rights? MACRI’s 2026 Symposium brings leaders together to discuss contemporary issues
MACRI’s annual symposium brings speakers from all over the country to speak about contemporary civil rights issues and how they affect people today.
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Fronteras: ‘It speaks to everyone, every migrant’ — New poetry collection highlights the refugee experience
From the desert into the detention center, "Peregrina/Pilgrim" shares the immigrant experience with readers.
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Fronteras: Coercion vs. collaboration – How a better foreign policy model can manage migration
A new report from the George W. Bush Institute argues that many border policies only provide short-term solutions to illegal immigration.
2 months ago