Article: Engraving emotions: memory and identity in the quest for emotive scholarship.

The engraving commenced during my childhood. It was a painful inscription instructing me to live a life without feelings or emotions as a young boy growing up in a Mexican/Chicano family in southern California during the nineteen sixties. I recall numerous men from my family and community that were filled with deep feelings and emotions but lacking the time or signposts for guidance toward the emotive path. These men were too preoccupied trying to attract and accumulate the material and symbolic evidence that defined them as respectful and honorable men in the eyes of their families and communities. Their childhood inscriptions provided no guidance for decoding the symbols ...

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