Profe, Writer, Artist | Focus on U.S. Central American Visual Art and the Salvadoran-American Diaspora.

San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2013
I am happy to announce that my article, "Rebels in Diaspora: Salvadoran Muralists in San Francisco’s Mission District, 1982–92," has been published in the Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Journal by @ucpress doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2024.6.…
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And there, face down on the carpet of an old Victorian apartment building that had survived the 1906 earthquake, he realized something: He had entered a new world. _ From 'Pan Francés,' by Mauricio Ernesto Ramírez, a Salvadoran American artist and scholar. aboutplacejournal.org/issues…
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🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 @PushcartPrize nominees! Explore the nominated works from the 'On Freedom' and 'Careful/Care-full Collaboration' issues of our literary journal @aboutplacejourn #Poetry #Prose #PushcartPrize blackearthinstitute.org/push…
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¡Convocatoria! NACLA is currently accepting proposals for our Summer 2024 issue on sites of knowledge production in Central America and the diaspora, co-edited by @KCorinealdi, @infrapolitics, and @BlackCatrachoBK. Send your pitches by December 13! nacla.org/call-pitches-centr…
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Fernanda Díaz-Basteris (@ASCatOSU) and @MaiteUrcaregui (@hfaucsb) asked me (@UNTclass) to contribute a coda to this beautiful book. Cover by Salvadoran artist, @breenache My piece is called "Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of Latinx Media." Published by @RutgersUPress, the volume will be out on April 15, so get your presale on!!! Get it, because it is HOT!!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 rutgersuniversitypress.org/l…
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Check out my Voices in Education blog post that summarizes my @Harvard_Ed_Pub article, “Toxic Masculinity Masking as Cultural Relevancy.”
"What does it mean to call upon men of color teachers to perform a 'culturally relevant' manhood for boys of color?" HER contributor @MichaelVSingh discusses this question in his Voices in Education blog post: bit.ly/3SEFZjS
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Presale code: LAUGH
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I'm excited to announce I've been awarded a 2024-2025 ACLS postdoctoral fellowship! This fellowship will allow me to complete my book project, "Painting Solidarity: U.S. Central American Murals of San Francisco." Learn more: acls.org/fellow-grantees/mau…
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Artist Kiara Aileen Machado explaining the significance of incorporating worry dolls as a representation of Central America in her paintings 🇸🇻🇬🇹 Check out more on episode 2 of the ArteMancer: Latinx Art and Culture podcast here: linktr.ee/artemancerpodcast?…
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23. Machu Picchu, before and after excavation
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Thread of before and after photos 🧵 1. Chichen Itza in 1892 and now
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Sharing my new article that looks at the ways Latino men teachers navigate and resist heteropatriarchal expectations associated with their teaching and gender performance. These gendered expectations were often (mis)framed as “cultural relevancy.” meridian.allenpress.com/her/…
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My latest art exhibition review of Josué Rojas's @josuiggity "Central American Pie" at the Incline Gallery in San Francisco was featured in El Tecolote @eltecolotesf newspaper. Don't miss this compelling show, which will be open until July 14th, 2024. eltecolote.org/content/en/sf…
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Felicidades! You make us proud!!!!
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New at PB, Mauricio E. Ramírez examines how a single mural honors Latinx victims of police violence both at the US border and in US cities. Read the next in our series “The Border Is the Crisis”: buff.ly/45aFbIv
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Check out my latest piece with @PublicBooks where I discuss how "Alto al Fuego en la Misíon" a mural painted in 2019, pays tribute to Latinx victims of police and state violence at the US-Mexico border and in San Francisco. publicbooks.org/finding-sanc…
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I am super excited to share that my article " Marketing Culture and the Belizean Nation" is finally out in the world, published with Callaloo Journal. 🥳🥳
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