Explore Key Themes
This exhibition addresses broad themes of questioning exclusion and inequity, exploring geographies and memories and how they establish sense of self, concepts of home, culture, and family. Related concepts include: colonialism, natural environment, urban spaces, travel, performance and labor.
Performance, Sculpture, Exploration, Myth and Technology
Cotton and Labor in South Texas, Trans-Generational Trauma
Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850Call Number: 338.17351097 T682S2015ISBN: 9781469624242
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton CultureCall Number: 305.8009764 F663W1997ISBN: 9780520207233
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and MemoryCall Number: e-bookISBN: 9781442231863
Textiles, Family, Memory, Heritage
Common Threads: A Discursive Text Narrating Ideas of Memory and Artistic IdentityCall Number: e-bookISBN: 9781443860192
Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and IdentityCall Number: e-bookISBN: 9780415935937
The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas: New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of EmpireCall Number: 970.015 B2939lISBN: 9780826519542
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Dates Covered: 1887-present. - APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowPsycInfo is the most comprehensive database of psychology and is an excellent choice for finding articles on trans-generational trauma.
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