cultural practices

Please Don’t Come To My House

“If I just let them assume, they’ll assume I have the same kind of stuff as them.” [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214617451" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What...
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Pulled Over Probably Twenty Times

"They found out I wasn't just, I guess, their perception of what a mixed kid from the south side of Chicago is." https://youtu.be/SA79dVdu6aE   Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What...
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Perspective

"When you get to school, you the brother... and when you come home, you the white boy." https://youtu.be/27LUWGUXuts Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds of questions would you pose?...
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International Education at Valparaiso University – An Oral History

“The goal was always to get more students here and get more of our students to go abroad.” The following stories, edited by Nick Ladeau, offer a portrait of how international education was established and developed at Valparaiso University. Study...
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In This Community

“If I wasn’t at home or at school, I was in East Chicago hanging out with my grandparents.” https://youtu.be/-GuAPV9Hy5Y Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society. Transcript for In This Community My great-grandmother and her...
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Church

“That duality of culture…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkmNlzIuJfs Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society. Transcript for Our Lady of Guadalupe Church I feel like the Irish or the Eastern European, like, Slovaks, the Croatian, the Hungarians –...
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Pick Up That Slack

“The tradition of the mutual aid society dates all the way back to the earliest days of the Mexican colonies in Indiana Harbor and Gary, Indiana.” https://youtu.be/QH9lQD9OTSc Historian Emiliano Aguilar, doctoral student Northwestern University Transcript for Pick Up That Slack...
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Me Coming Home

"...the Mexican-American community in the United States – it wasn't really taught in high school." https://youtu.be/7RlvTsqhRMc Transcript for Me Coming Home That’s another mentality, too. Growing up in East Chicago, everyone wanted to know where you were. And you always...
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“Us/Them” Mentality

“If you're such a tight part of a certain community, you are more likely to see everyone else as the other." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1107249775&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"]Welcome Project at Valparaiso University · "Us/Them" Mentality Transcript for “Us/Them” Mentality I...
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