New Book on Complexity, Borders and Mixed Ancestry

SAN DIEGO - Jan. 29, 2023 - PRLog -- An Introduction to Complexity Pedagogy, Using Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy and Complexity in Performance & Literature, by D. Emily HIcks, Ph.D., will be available tomorrow, January 30th, 2023, on Amazon. The book is published by Myers Education Press. It presents a model of the Mexico-US border as a complex system. The book is written for non-scientists, educators in interdisciplinary fields (STEM/STEAM), advanced undergraduates and graduate students and the general reader with an interest in border regions, complexity and mixed ancestry. It includes tables with definitions of basic complexity concepts and how they are interrelated. There are individual chapters on the Choctaw author LeAnne Howe, the Chicana lesbian author Gloria Anzaldua, the performance artist Karen Finley and the performance art collaborators Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. The book discusses mixed ancestry and refers to Melungeons and Redbones (a mixed ancestry population in the Louisiana-Texas border region). The research for this book was carried out with B.T. Werner, a geophysicist at Scripps/UC San Diego. Hicks is a member of the complexity lab directed by Werner. An Introduction to Complexity will soon be available in independent bookstores and chains in over 16 countries, including Barnes and Noble, Foyles in the UK and Libreria Ghandi in Mexico. More information about the book and the press may be found here: https://myersedpress.presswarehouse.com/