Stories of history can leave out as much as they say. Dr. Louie Dean Valencia-García’s work shows how this tenet holds true in European history. He and all of the students in his class wrote an article evaluating textbooks that
Month: June 2021
Celebrating Juneteenth
Juneteenth is an important independence day celebration for America. It is also known as Emancipation Day, Liberation Day, or Freedom Day because it celebrates the symbolic end of slavery and the process of enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation and freeing enslaved
LGBTQ Employment and Discrimination
“The workplace is not sex neutral,” writes Dr. Patti Giuffre (Department of Sociology) and her colleague Courtney Caviness, who is Texas State MA Sociology alum, Dr. Giuffre’s former mentee, and currently a doctoral student from the University of California, Davis.
Queer Stories of Bodies, Nature, and Time
La mucama de Omicunlé is a novel by Rita Indiana, a Dominican writer and singer-songwriter whose writing features themes of queerness. Dr. Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins, Assistant Professor of World Languages & Literatures, wrote an article interpreting the novel. Perkins’ article–“Queer