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 Chair-Elect: NACCS 2010 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW AND HIGHLIGHTS Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. , NACCS Chair-Elect he theme of the 37th Annual Conference of the National to contend with audience TAssociation for Chicana and Chicano Studies is “Environ- members that walked out mental Justice for a Post-Neoliberal Age.” This is the first time of sessions or shouted at in the history of NACCS that the association focuses the annual us because they misrecog- conference theme on environmental issues. Given the growing nized our work as “focus- concern for the disproportionately harmful impacts unleashed ing on a white middle class by climate change and other forms of environmental injustice on issue”. This happened to marginalized communities, this is a timely theme. your Chair-Elect at the conferences in Los Angeles in 1989 and Spokane in 1995. We endured, and so here we are now about The scholars and activists that have presented papers and to take the first major step toward NACCS recognition of the workshops on environmental themes at NACCS since the most significant set of problems facing our communities as we late 1980s, feel inspired and vindicated that we are no longer do our part to defend the Earth and its life-support systems. relegated to marginal status as “voices in the wilderness”. The environment, ecology and political ecology, environmen- There is a saying in the environmental justice movement: tal justice, and related issues have finally been placed on the “We have always been environmentalists, we were just to NACCS “radar screen,” and we will perhaps never again have Continued on page 16 NACCS Book Award Inside Noticias by Karleen Pendleton Jiménez de NACCS e are pleased to announce that the recipient of Wthe 2010 NACCS Book Award is The Los Ange- Page 7 les Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space by William David Member News Estrada. The text offers a compelling read of the richly layered histories of one public parcel of land. From Page 13 pre-columbian times to the present day, Estrada traces Cervantes Recipients the community initiatives and individual dreams that have shaped the landscape and architecture of the Page 17 Plaza. The scope of the project is remarkable, chroni- Preliminary Program cling with precise detail hundreds of years of multi- ethnic contributions to shared space. Estrada captures Page 23 the contradictions and continuities, the politics and Brief History of Seattle sensibilities that have made the Plaza one of the most significant sites of Chicana/Chicano heritage. Continued on page 2

VISIT THE NACCS WEBSITE AT WWW.NACCS.ORG From the Editor Editor: Kathryn Blackmer Reyes eader, I return again as an [email protected] Rinterim editor for this issue of Noticias. It’s a time consuming job, Production Editors but it is also one that I have always Julia Curry Rodríguez enjoyed so I am pleased to step in Layout/Design: to help the Board. As a high school Design Action Collective student I was in journalism and it was there with an electronic type- Noticias de NACCS writer and a roll of receipt paper (to Volume 39, Number 1, February 2010 make columns) that I typed my way through high school. While I cursed that typewriter many

NACCS Business Office times over (no automatic correction type — only “white out”) Attn: Noticias de NACCS/ I truly loved working on the newspaper. Newsletter Editor P.O. Box 720052 So in this role, I have the privilege of writing some reflections San Jose, CA 95172-0052 that have come to me in recent days. We have lost several email: [email protected] important colleagues and groundbreakers in our profession. I have been fortunate to meet many of them through my many Noticias de NACCS is the official newsletter of years in NACCS — not as a presenter, nor as an academic the National Association for Chicana and Chicano colleague, but rather as a worker for this organization. In the Studies. Published four times yearly, with a circula- tion of 800, Noticias de NACCS includes current most recent departures of Don Luis Leal and Shirlene Soto, comments on Chicana and Chicano Studies, news I have reflected on how my work in NACCS allows me to of Chicana and Chicano Scholars, Association ac- honor them. I have had the privilege of taking small actions tivities and more. Noticias de NACCS is sent to to make their experience at NACCS a bit better, or at least all NACCS members, outside subscribers, and se- that is my hope. My interaction with folks like Dr. Soto and lected non-subscribers. Dr. Leal might have been rather small and perhaps forgetful on their part, but I hold my interactions with them in a cher- ished part of my memory. I consider myself fortunate to have (NACCS Book Award) continued from page 1 grown up in NACCS since my first conference was in 1986 while I was an undergraduate student at UC Davis. I view We have also awarded the text my work in NACCS as a privilege that allows me to be at the Yolanda M. Lopez, written by Karen forefront of Chicana and Chicano Studies and to meet and Mary Davalos, with an honorable interact with so many of our treasured and honored scholars. mention. Through a carefully craft- Moreover, because of my involvement I also have the good ed narrative of life history, com- fortune to meet and work with those scholars that are up and munity struggle, visual imagery, coming. I never take for granted that each and every one of and aesthetic critique, Davalos has you holds the promise for Chicana and Chicano Studies and created a beautiful book. It is both our future. a personal and political portrait of one of our most important artists. After so many years, I still feel like I did when I was a stu- dent. I am in awe of our teachers and students, mentors We received 17 books for consid- and mentees. I get to enjoy a part of the association that eration for the 2010 NACCS Book is hidden or invisible to many. To be part of the team that Award. Judges were impressed by works to insure this space is my contribution. These recent the breadth and depth of the submissions, on topics includ- deaths have made me reflect on that privilege. If it wasn’t ing music, education, myth, feminism, film, religion, law, for NACCS I hardly think possible that I would have had art, immigration and more. While such a broad selection of those 30 seconds, if that, with many of you. And for that I am material offered judges a challenging task, we became aware grateful. of the degree to which Chicana/Chicano Studies is thriving. If you are interested in submitting texts (published in 2009) for Why NACCS? I often ask that of myself. I ask that privately next year’s competition, submission guidelines will be posted as I see returning names in the program and returning in the next newsletter. n members. I ask myself in private if our scholars know how

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2 February 2010 Â 2010-2011 NACCS BOARD CANDIDATES By Mari Castañeda, Past Chair am happy to present the candidate slate for the 2010-2011 Candidates: At-Large Representative INACCS Board elections. Below you will find brief bios for (select one) Roberto D. Hernandez, University of California, Berke- each candidate. Voting for the candidates will begin Febru- ley; and Michelle Téllez, Arizona State University ary 17 at 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. March 3 online at naccs.org. You must be a current member of the association to vote. My Roberto D. Hernandez thanks to the Nominations committee for all their work. University of California, Berkeley NACCS has always been a place where I have felt at home, surrounded by schol- Candidate: Chair-elect/Chair (select one) ars, educators, and activists alike, brought together by a sense of shared purpose. I Jaime H. Garcia first started attending and presenting origi- University of Texas at Brownsville nal research at NACCS in 2000 (Portland, OR) as a third year undergraduate student I have been active in NACCS for over ten at UC Berkeley. I have continued to attend years. During that time I have served as and present my scholarship at NACCS Tejas Rep for four years and Treasurer for regularly. Each year, I began incremen- two years. During my tenure as treasurer I tally involving myself with more than just assisted in the preparation of budgets and presenting work during the annual meet- financial reporting. I served as editor for the ings. While still an undergraduate, I was actively involved in the Northern selected proceedings of the 2001 conference California Foco, serving as both a student rep and presenting at a Regional published in 2006. Over the years I have Continued on page 4 also served as reviewer for conference presentation proposals. Finally, since Michelle Téllez 2002 I have served as co-facilitator for the homophobia workshop. Arizona State University

My contributions to Chicana and Chicano Studies has been primarily in I have been involved with NACCS since I the area of education. I have served as a consultant to school districts to attended my first conference in 1998, which assist them in improving assessment procedures in gifted education so that was held in Mexico City; that year I present- those practices are more equitable for Chicano and other underrepresented ed the work I was doing as an elementary populations. Currently my research team is involved in a project that is school teacher. Since then, I have remained Continued on page 4 an active member of the organization and I have regularly presented and NACCS conferences; I was also an invited speaker Candidate: Secretary (select one) for the Chicana Plenary in 2007. Currently, Cynthia V. Duarte, Notre Dame as a faculty member, I am working with my graduate students to bring them into the I first became involved with NACCS as an organization; together, we recently submit- undergraduate at UCLA (B.A. 1996). I con- ted a proposal for the spring conference. One of the many strengths of tinued to attend and present my work while NACCS is the breadth of representation demonstrated in the membership, in graduate school at Columbia University with most members having strong links to communities, students, families (Ph.D. 2008) and now as an academic. and organizations outside of academia. My own trajectory highlights this While living in the North East I became unique facet of NACCS. involved with the East Coast Foco, attend- ing regional meetings both in the East As an undergraduate student at UCLA, I became actively involved in the Coast and at NACCS Conferences. I was struggle for a Chicana/o Studies department on our campus. Through our fortunate to be elected Secretary of NACCS Continued on page 5 for 2008-2010 and have participated as a board member and on various committees for NACCS including the new Immigrant Student Beca. As Secretary I have been in charge of organizing meetings, following up with board logistics and VOTING OPENS duties as well as interact with the membership to help then utilize NACCS February 17 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. in the most productive way. My membership and involvement with NACCS has been both a reflection of my commitment to the Chicana/o community March 3 as well as need for a “safe space” to present my work and receive feedback that has advanced my scholarship. Due in no small part to NACCS mem- Go to NACCS.org for details. Continued on page 4 You must be a 2010 member to vote.

www.naccs.org 3 (Jamie H. Garcia) continued from page 3 University I ran the Minority Affairs Summer Native Studies and Black Studies. I was a Visit- examining the views of community that children Research Program which gives undergraduates ing Scholar at the Center for Chicano Studies at living in a colonia in south Texas have. of color the experience of doing original research UC Santa Barbara, and currently a Visiting Schol- and prepares them for applying and succeeding in ar at the Center for Black Studies Research also In the community I have been involved in a a Ph.D. program. I was highly active in recruit- at UCSB. My primary research/teaching interests number of ways. At the University of Texas at ing Chicano/Latino students to the program and are in Chicana/o history, social movements, radi- Brownsville I have served as advisor to the cam- have continued to mentor many of these students cal political thought (feminist, indigenous, and pus’ Gay Straight Alliance. I have also developed as they pursue their own graduate careers. As a third world left) in the U.S. and Latin America, a program to assist Chicana and Chicano middle Professor in the Northeast and now Midwest it is anti-colonial politics, border studies and Black- and high school students learn college and evident that there is a vacuum of Chicano/Latino Brown relations. As such, I helped found a scholarship application processes. At regional academics to serve the small but growing Chi- Decolonial Feminisms working group at Berkeley conferences for high school students with pre- cano/Latino students on campus and the outlying and a Decolonial Knowledge and Power Summer dominately Chicano populations, I have presented communities. I along with other faculty of color School in Tarragona, Spain. I am also working on program options at universities. on campus take seriously our responsibility as on translating to English important works by Teaching at a university and living in a region mentor and advisor to students as they navigate Latin American scholars and the intellectual and with a high Chicana and Chicano population I their way through higher education. n political interventions of the Movement of the strive to ensure that the voices of Chicanas and Indigenous of the Republic (MIR)—descendants Chicanos are included in the courses I teach of former colonies in France—as I find their insights on colonialism and global indigeneity are and the interactions I engage in. I attempt to (Roberto D. Hernandez) continued from page 3 further include issues faced by immigrant and of relevance to Chicana/o Studies scholars. NoCal Foco NACCS Symposium. As a gradu- low income populations due to conditions in the ate student, I have been involved in Northern I was born in Guadalajara, but raised right on the region. Preparing teachers to work with these and Southern California Focos, the COMPAS U-S///Mexico border, and attended university in populations is critical to ensuring that children caucus and its special sessions on the wars, and Northern California. While still relatively young, and youth receive the same opportunities as oth- most recently in the creation and development of I have been involved for the last 15+ years in the ers. n the Indigenous Knowledges/Indigenous Peoples advancement of the justice and equality in the Caucus and Research Division, where I served as many communities of which I have been or am a Caucus Rep for two years. I have also served as a part. I have been and am a member of vari- (Cynthia V. Duarte) continued from page 3 a reviewer of submissions for the Annual Confer- ous community organizations that advocate for bers and leadership, Chicana/o studies has con- ence the last three years. In 2007, I received the freedom and justice, always from the perspec- tinued to evolve. The advancement of Chicana/o Cervantes Premio and presented my paper in the tive of los de abajo—the wretched, the lumpen, studies not only shapes people academically, but Student Plenary. In turn, I encourage my own the squinted-eyed—in any given relationship inspires and prepares new activist leaders through students to submit their papers and two of them of power. What this means is that I begin from scholarship and mentorship. I have benefited have received the Premio in the last couple of a starting point that asks how do I listen and from this holistic approach and I consider it my years. NACCS conferences have always been a take into account in my every action and posi- responsibility to serve NACCS at the organiza- way to maintain a sense of connection with other tion the embodied and lived realities of all my tional level. students and faculty in the field, but I have equal- own “others” racially-, sexually-, economically-, ly sought to extend those relationships beyond geopolitically-speaking. I have organized various I am currently a Faculty Fellow at the Institute the annual gatherings. I believe the work we do conferences, protests, forums, teach-ins, events, for Latino Studies at the University of Notre to stay connected and engaged with one another, and actions to advocate for these multi-faceted Dame and Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociol- across Focos and Caucuses, between conferences concerns, but first and foremost from the under- ogy. I teach courses on race and ethnicity, urban is equally important and vital to our field, which is standing that my own issues are by far not the sociology and immigration. At my previous why I think I would make a great At-Large Rep. only or even the most important. As an under- appointment at Quinnipiac University, I created graduate and graduate student, I have remained and taught the first Latino Studies survey course. My contributions to Chicana/o Studies have been equally committed to developing Chicana/o Whether I’m teaching a traditional Chicano/ in my many roles as a student, organizer, teacher Studies at all levels of curriculum, both as a stu- Latino studies course or not, I always include the and scholar. Following footsteps of many before dent insisting on the highest standards and rigor Chicana/o experience in my syllabus. My scholar- me, I took to heart a talk on implementation of on our own part, and actively advocating and ship is within the fields of Race/ethnicity, Urban Chicana/o Studies courses in high school cur- organizing for such programs in the San Fran- Sociology, Inequality and Chicana/o Studies. riculum. Only a junior in high school, I organized cisco/Oakland Area for years. This has, unfortu- Specifically, I research issues of identity among a group of my peers to agitate and push for a nately, included many campaigns to “save” or 3rd & 4th Generation Chicana/os in Los Ange- Chicana/o History course, and within a year man- “defend” Chicana/o Studies and Ethnic Studies les, California. I have brought the results of my aged to secure what, thirteen years later, is the when faced with budget cuts and administrative research to various NACCS meets and have found only such course in the school district. My con- attacks, such as a 1999 strike at UC Berkeley that the support and comments invaluable. I am tributions also extend to fostering vibrant intellec- I was actively a part of in several capacities. All publishing articles on this topic and am currently tual engagement in the scholarly communities we of the above experiences speak to my pluriversal working on a book manuscript on the history of find ourselves in, through the organizing of sever- approach to the academy, community and social urban change in Los Angeles and the effect this al major conferences, international symposia, and world. I firmly believe that such principles of has on Later Generation Chicanos. my own research, teaching and incipient publi- listening, hearing, and engaging with everyone, cations on border violence, cultural production, Since graduate school I have been active in despite our differences, make me a great candi- hemispheric indigeneity and social movements. mentoring and guiding students of color in their date for At-Large Rep. n I am a comparative and interdisciplinary Ethnic pursuit of a higher education. At Columbia Studies scholar, grounded in Chicana/o Studies,

4 February 2010 (Michelle Téllez) continued from page 2 at the Borderlands: Notes from a Chicana classes that highlight the particular experiences of Feminist Ethnographer” (Chicana/Latina Studies, Chicanas/os, I have served as faculty mentor for collaborative efforts, the Cesar E. Chávez Center 2005) and “Community of Struggle: Gender, Vio- students in the TRIO program and as co-advisor was formed in 1993. My induction to the field lence and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border” for MEChA. I have also been actively involved was as an activist and I feel that my contribu- (Gender & Society, 2008). My book, “Gender, in organizing the annual Border Justice event tions to the field stem from this initial engage- Citizenship, Land and the State: The Struggle for on our campus, a two-day gathering that has ment. My work as a former elementary school Autonomy at the U.S. Mexico Border,” is under focused on a number of issues pertaining to the teacher in a border community, my involvement contract with the University of Texas Press. I am border, including: gender justice, criminalization in a Chicana/o theater troupe in California, and also working on two other important projects: one of migrants, corporations and the border, etc. my work as scholar, complement each other to that documents the incidence of sexual violence Furthermore, my hope is to provide students with inform my particular contributions to the dynamic against migrant women border crossers and, the the opportunity for continued community and field of Chicana/o Studies; the discipline was born second, a project on binational labor organizing in civic engagement; for example, because of my out of a demand for recognition of our histories the Tijuana/San Diego region. involvement—as both a volunteer and an execu- and a desire to have a place in society that marks tive board member—with the Arizona Interfaith our unique cultural and political positionalities. I have had an unwavering commitment to my Alliance for Worker Justice (a center that tends to That said, my own research was born out of my community throughout my adult life as evidenced the needs of migrant workers), my students were experiences as a transfronteriza Chicana and my in the projects and community organizations able to collaborate with the organization to plan projects center on the agency and life histories in which I have been involved. I believe that and participate in a May Day event last spring. It of border dwellers along the U.S./Mexico border, academic life and community engagement are is only through the creation of these bridges that highlighting the political subjectivities of Chica- intimately connected and in the four years that I we can continue to work towards advancing the nas/Mexicanas. I have several publications that have been on the faculty of ASU, I have continu- center on this theme, including: “Doing Research needs of our communities at multiple levels. n ously built those bridges. Along with teaching

CULTIVATING LEADERSHIP IN NACCS By Mari Castañeda, Past-Chair

t the end of the Seattle NACCS. Our association needs strong many leaders in A2010 conference, my time order to build our membership and expand our presence on the NACCS National Board in communities and universities alike, especially right now will come to an end. I’ve had when Chicana and Chicano studies are being threatened the pleasure of serving the politically and culturally. Therefore, I encourage all of association since 2006, when you to become more active in NACCS. Contributing to I first joined the Board as the Noticias de NACCS, for instance, is an excellent way to newly-elected treasurer at the share information about local and national issues as well Guadalajara conference. In as acknowledge the accomplishments of our members in 2007, I was elected to Chair- challenging the prevailing structures of power. I point out elect, which allowed me the opportunity to continue the newsletter in particular since I served in the capacity serving NACCS for three more years. As Chair and with as Editor-in-Chief during my time on the National Board the help of the East Coast Foco, we hosted the first ever and I greatly enjoyed connecting with members through NACCS conference in the Northeast in New Brunswick, this essential communication tool because it also cultivated New Jersey, and in my capacity as Past-Chair, I have my leadership skills and provided a forum that expanded pressed on with the Board’s vision to institute online pro- the capacity of NACCS. Lastly, I’ve been very impressed ceedings with the help of the Austin 2008 Editorial Board. with my colleagues on all levels of NACCS but especially During my time on the National Board, I also served as Julia Curry, the NACCS Executive Director, who is also Board Elections Chair, which gave me the good fortune a full-time professor at San Jose State University. With to reach out to members in order to invite them to run for her excellent team, which includes our longtime member office. Cultivating leadership in NACCS is vital for the Kathy Blackmer, Dr. Curry has helped strengthen NACCS future of the organization and it is important for all our and transform it into a cutting-edge association. I wish all members to participate not only on the National Board but our members the best of luck and I look forward to serv- also in our Focos, Caucuses, and various ad hoc commit- ing NACCS in the future. As we say on the East Coast: tees as well as work as goodwill ambassadors on behalf of ¡Pa’lante, siempre pa’lante! n

www.naccs.org 5 Pacific Northwest Foco New Chair Appointed to UCSB January 20, 2010 Department of Chicana and Gilberto Garcia Chicano Studies Pacific Northwest Representative ida Hurtado has joined the faculty Aat UC Santa Barbara as the new chair of the Department of Chicana REPORT and Chicano Studies. A social psy- chologist whose research focuses on he Pacific Northwest Foco held its annual regional con- race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and Tference at Central Washington University on October gender, she came to UCSB from UC 30-31, 2009. The theme of the conference was Breaking Santa Cruz, where she spent more Borders, Building Bridges: Creating Communities through than 20 years as a scholar in the psychology department. Chicana and Chicano Studies. Sponsored by the Center for Latino/Latin American Studies Center and MEChA, the con- “The bulk of my work is on feminist theory, women’s issues, ference attracted an excellent and diverse group of present- and Latino educational achievement,” said Hurtado, who ers, under graduate and graduate students from the regional earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University universities as well as faculty from the various Chicana/o, of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of several books, Latina/o Studies programs in the region. The conference including Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak attracted presentations focusing on a variety of themes, such Out on Sexuality and Identity; The Color of Privilege: Three as, points of contact between Latina/o and Chicana/o Stud- Blasphemies on Race and Feminism; and Chicana/o Identity ies; the border between the United States of America and in a Changing U.S. Society: ¿Quién Soy? ¿Quiénes Somos? the United States of Mexico; the fluidities of gender and which she wrote with Patricia Gurin of the University of sexual identity; Latina/o, Chicana/o, Latin American realities Michigan, Ann Arbor. and experiences; hybrid identities; the relationship between Hurtado has received numerous awards and honors, includ- higher education institutions and surrounding communi- ing this year’s Women of Color Psychologies Award from the ties; the relationships among underrepresented groups in Association of Women in Psychology. The award recognizes the United States of America; power dynamics among the her paper, “A View From Within and From Without: The powerful and the less powerful; and regional realities of the Development of Latina Feminist Psychology,” which she co- Pacific Northwest. This conference aimed at a conversation authored with graduate student Karina Cervantes. The paper regarding these and other issues. appears in “The Handbook of U.S. Latino Psychology.” The The conference had a total of close to 50 presenters from dif- award will be presented at the organization’s annual confer- ferent states in the region: Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. ence in Portland, Ore., later this month, where Hurtado will One of the objectives of the conference was to encourage be a speaker. the mentoring of a new generation of Chicana/o, Latina/o In addition, in 2007, Hurtado was a recipient of the Ameri- scholars and to promote their continuation into graduate can Educational Research Association’s SAGE Award for programs. Among the presenters, we had McNair Scholars distinguished contributions to gender equity in education from Boise State University, Eastern Washington University, research. Continued on page 9 Continued on page 9

(From the Editor) continued from page 2 wonderful it is for a student to see hours I do in this organization. In my of many national honors, but it was them and if that is the reason they profession I am often admonished to NACCS that first recognized his work return. I wonder if given that they devote myself more to more “produc- as our Distinguished Scholar in 1988. have so many other respected aca- tive” (aka “respected) organizations. Our organization--all of you, see and demic organizations where they make I seldom wonder myself why I am a value the contributions of our scholars their professional impressions why NACCS member and why I work for long before others. I often think that they chose to return to NACCS. I NACCS. it is the people that hold these values think that it is in part because of that of appreciation that makes this small intimate feeling of pride and joy that I The passing of Don Luis helped me and unique association so special. feel being part of NACCS at the core. to give my role in NACCS perspec- And I hope that during the annual Am I too optimistic? Naive? People tive. He was certainly an impressive conference—for 3 days—you replen- often ask me why I work the many man and educator. He was deserving Continued on page 10

6 February 2010 Â NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERSHIP

Congratulations to Ale- new post as Chair of the Department of March 1. Go to http://www.utexas.edu/ jandro Lugo for receiv- Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa cola/centers/cmas for details. ing the following honors: Barbara (read story in this publication). Congratulations to 2008 Southwest Book Emilio Zamora for Award and 2009 ALLA Chávez, John R. receiving the 2010 Coral Book Award for his book Beyond Nations: Evolving Horton Tullis Memorial Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts Homelands in the North Prize for the best book on (UT Press, 2008); the National Museum Atlantic World, 1400-2000. Texas. Zamora’s publica- of Mexican Art in Chicago (2009) New York: Cambridge tion Claiming Rights and selected for its Permanent Collection University Press, 2009. Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican two ethnographic photographs from his Daniel Enrique Pérez Workers and Job Politics during World photo series, “Cruces: Crossings and has been promoted to War II (Texas A&M University Press, Crosses”; the Larine Y. Cowan Make Associate Professor at 2009) will be honored at the 2010 con- a Difference Award” (2009) UIUC, for the University of Nevada, ference of the Texas State Historical demonstrating exceptional dedication to Reno. His book, Rethink- Association in Dallas, TX. and success in promoting diversity and ing Chicana/o and Latina/o inclusivity through teaching, research, Popular Culture, is now available (Pal- Tejas Foco Regional Conference: hiring practices, courses, programs, and grave Macmillan, 2009). Pasado, Presente, y Futuro: Forty Years events; and for becoming Associate Edi- of Chicana and Chicano Studies in tor of the Latino Studies journal (2010). Fellowship: The Center for Mexican Texas. University of Texas at Austin, American Studies at UT Austin is now February 25-27, 2010. Go to http:// Congratulations to Aida Hurtado, a accepting applications for its Postdoc- www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cmas/ for past chair of NACCS (2005-2006) on her toral Fellowship Program. Deadline: additional information. n

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www.naccs.org 7 IN REMEMBRANCE Luis Leal, NACCS Scholar 1988, Dies at 102 uis Leal, distinguished profes- “Don Luis was an extraordinary teacher and scholar and an Lsor of Chicana and Chicano inspiration to generations of students,” said Melvin Oliver, studies at UC Santa Barbara and an UCSB’s SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences. internationally recognized scholar “At UCSB, we honor his legacy with both the Luis Leal Social of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin Sciences Undergraduate Award, which is given annually to a American literature, died January graduating student in the social sciences for outstanding in- 25. He was 102. terdisciplinary work, and with the Luis Leal Chair in Chicana Leal, author of more than 45 books and Chicano studies. There is no better way to celebrate the and 400 scholarly articles, remained life and accomplishments of Luis Leal than by recognizing a prolific researcher and writer until his death. One of his the passion and dedication of our exceptional students and books, “A Brief History of the Mexican Short Story,” is con- the kind of interdisciplinary scholarship that characterizes the sidered a landmark of modern literary scholarship. Luis Leal Professorship.” Leal was a member of the UCSB faculty since 1976. Earlier in In 1995, UCSB established the Luis Leal Endowed Chair, which his career, he held teaching positions at the University of Chi- he held until 1997. Maria Herrera-Sobek, a professor of Chi- cago, the University of Mississippi, Emory University, and the cana and Chicano studies at UCSB, held the chair from 1997 University of Illinois. through 2009. She also serves as associate vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and academic policy. “Professor Leal was a beloved member of our campus commu- nity and a scholar of tremendous international renown,” said “Professor Luis Leal was a World War II hero, a scholar and a UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang. “With respect and affection, we gentleman, and I am honored and privileged to have been his called him ‘Don Luis.’ His contributions to our university and friend and colleague for almost 34 years,” said Herrera-Sobek. our society are a legacy that we will treasure always. In addition “I admired his brilliance, his keen intellect, his humility, and his to his brilliant intellect, he will be remembered for his kindness, love of teaching, research and learning. He is truly a giant who generosity, and humility, as well as for his joyful heart.” was fortunate to live in two centuries, and to have friends and admirers all over the world. We will all miss him greatly.” Leal received many honors, including the prestigious National Humanities Medal, which was presented at the White House in UCSB celebrated Leal’s 100th birthday in October 2007 with 1997 by then-President Bill Clinton. In 1988, he received the Dis- a two-day conference featuring panel discussions, special re- tinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Chi- membrances, and a screening of the film Luis Leal: A Journey cano Studies in recognition of his lifetime achievements. In 1991, of 100 Years/Luis Leal: Un Camino De 100 Años, which was he was awarded the Mexico Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest written, directed, and produced by Janette Garcia. The film was commissioned for the event. honor granted to foreign citizens by the Mexican government. Continued on page 9

Remembering a Colleague r. Margaret “Margie” Zamudio passed Critical Race Theory in Education will be Daway on December 25th 2009. She was published by Routledge in late 2010. Just 45 years old. Margie was born in Los Ange- before she died, Margie was researching the les in 1964. She attended UCLA as both an socio-economic forces behind the immigra- undergraduate and graduate student where she tion of El Salvadorian women in the 1950s received her BA in 1989, her MA in 1991, and and 60s. Her passion and devotion for social her PhD in 1996 in Sociology. Margie taught justice and racial equality will be greatly at the University of Colorado at Boulder from missed at UW. 1996-2002. Margie came to the University of Margie loved the outdoors. The mountains Wyoming in 2002. She taught in the Sociology around Happy Jack had a special place in Department as well as the Chicano Studies and Margie’s heart. Margie was an avid cross Women’s Studies program. Margie received country skier and mountain biker. She also tenure at the University of Wyoming in the loved camping in the Medicine Bow Moun- Spring of 2009. tains—the North Fork of the Little Laramie in particular. Margie’s advocacy and scholarship on issues of social justice, Margie is survived by her many family, friends and students who immigration, race, class and gender provided inspiration to will greatly miss her intelligence, compassion, and wonderful sense many of her friends, colleagues and students. Her book on of humor. Margie will be especially missed by her dog Harley. n

8 February 2010 (From Luis Leal) continued from page 8 Leal was also the subject of the book Luis Leal, an Auto/ Each year, UCSB and the Santa Barbara Book Council choose Biography, written by Mario T. García, professor of Chicana a winner of the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/ and Chicano studies at UCSB, and published in 2000 by the Latino Literature. The award was created in 2003 to honor University of Texas Press. Leal for being a pioneer in recognizing and promoting the “Luis Leal, to me, was the ultimate role model of a scholar merit of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literary and who was thoroughly committed to his work and at the same cultural traditions. The inaugural winner of the award in 2003 time was a kind, considerate, and compassionate human be- was Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs ing,” said García. “It was not how long Don Luis lived that is of Love and other novels. Other past winners include Graciela important, but how he lived his life.” Limón, Pat Mora, Alejandro Morales, Denise Chávez, María Elena Viramontes, and Rudolfo Anaya. In addition to being a visiting professor at UCSB, Leal previ- ously edited a literary periodical sponsored by the Center for Leal was born Sept. 17, 1907, in Linares, Mexico. After the Chicano Studies called “Ventana Abierta: Revista Latina de Mexican Revolution, he immigrated to the United States, and Literatura, Arte y Cultura.” settled in Chicago. He married Gladys Clemens in 1936 and they had two children, Antonio Leal and Luis Alonso Leal, “Don Luis was an extraordinary mentor and friend who now deceased. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in generously shared his knowledge and brought people to- Spanish from Northwestern University in 1940; a master’s in gether through a humble personality and his charisma,” said Spanish from the University of Chicago in 1941; and a Ph.D. Francisco Lomelí, chair of UCSB’s Department of Spanish and in Spanish and Italian from the University of Chicago in 1950. Portuguese and professor of Chicana and Chicano studies. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943-45. “His love of life was exemplary and his curiosity infinite. He will be missed for all his many contributions.” Leal is survived by his son, Antonio, two grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. His wife, Gladys Leal, died in 2001. n

(From Pacific Northwest Foco) continued from page 6 students from the Evergreen College and Masters Degree and exhibit “Mexicanos in Spokane, Washington” from the col- PhD students from the University of Washington and the lection of Dr. Carlos Maldonado, and 2) the video Screening University of Oregon. and discussion of Students of Change: Los del ’68. In fall 1968 a group of Mexican American youths left Yakima Valley The conference invited Luis J. Rodriguez, author of the 1993 to enter the University of Washington amidst a time of great memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang transformation. These students would not only experience Days in LA, as the keynote speaker of the conference. His great change...they would be it. presentation “Imagining Community, Imagining Change”, incorporated aspects of his writings and personal experiences The 2009 PNW Foco Organizing Program Committee would in the barrio, was received well by the audience. like to thank the participants and presenters in the regional conference as well as the sponsors who made the event pos- The conference included two presentations on the regional sible. Hasta la Victoria! n experience in the Pacific Northwest: 1) the photographic

(From New Chair) continued from page 6 “I am very happy to be here at UCSB,” said Hurtado, who “We’re not just the 10 faculty members in the Department of also holds the Luis Leal Endowed Chair. She succeeds María Chicana and Chicano Studies,” she continued. “We have af- Herrera-Sobek, who held the chair from 1997 through 2009 filiated faculty in several other departments, including history, and remains a faculty member in the Chicana and Chicano feminist studies, literature, sociology, and anthropology. We studies department, in addition to serving as associate vice are truly interdisciplinary in nature.” chancellor for diversity, equity, and academic policy. Said Melvin Oliver, the SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of “The department is really incredible,” Hurtado continued. Social Sciences: “Prof. Hurtado is a profoundly interdisciplin- “We have an amazing curriculum, a tremendous group of ary scholar whose merging of social psychology, Chicano both young and established scholars, and a really great gradu- studies, and feminist studies has led to pioneering research ate program.” Her challenges, she said, are to continue to on social identity, intersectionality, and educational access. bring national and international attention to the department The application of her research to critical public policy issues and to make people aware of its strengths. encompasses the spirit of the Luis Leal Endowed Chair. I wel- One of those, she noted, is the breadth and scope of the come her impressive abilities as a teacher, talent as a scholar, scholarship conducted in the department. “Ours is one of a and ability to bring fresh ideas to the department as chair. few Chicano studies programs that stress cutting edge issues, “I would also like to thank Juan-Vicente Palerm for his astute such as those related to race, class, gender, sexuality, and im- guidance and boundless dedication as acting chair during the migration,” she said. “We also value and emphasize cultural search for a new chair.” n studies.

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(From the Editor) continued from page 6 ish yourselves with the knowledge graduate students and faculty are our And so while we remember our col- that all of you are special. senior and treasured scholars today. leagues who have passed, we must Without knowing it I realize today also continue to celebrate our ground- Truth is I am still in awe of all of that I saw our future and I recognize breakers of tomorrow. In this small you. I have the same feeling I had that the future of Chicana and Chi- world of NACCS I hope that together when I sat in a room full of Chicanas cano Studies rests in your faces, our we will always treasure our scholars as an undergrad. All of the women present. —those up and coming and those were young and upcoming scholars. long established. See you in Seattle! n I sat looking at them, listening to I thank you all for returning to them discuss their ideas and hopes NACCS. What you all do, what you as Chicanas and I was in awe. As a all accomplish is so incredibly mag- young undergraduate student, strug- nificent! My part as I see it is continu- Seattle Weather in April gling with academics and life issues, ing to insure the space. I am sure that Avg Daily Max. Temp I sought to understand what I was many of you find ways to insure our supposed to do to make my life future in many ways. I still get a kick 58.3 °F 14.6°C worthwhile. In that room I decided I out of seeing all of you at a NACCS. Avg Monthly Max. Rainfall wanted to be like them. That memory It’s pleasure that comes with head- 2.28 in 5.79 cm still takes my breath away. The faces. ache, heartaches, but also great plea- The optimism. Many of those young sure and pride.

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Exhibitors at his year’s hotel is located in downtown Seattle. It is just NACCS as of 2/15 Ta short walk from restaurants, theaters, stores, and the Hotel • Ethnic Studies Library, UCB famous Pike Public Market. Tourist spots like the Space Grand Hyatt Seattle • University of Arizona Press Needle is just a ride away. 721 Pine Street, • University of Texas Press Conference Dates Seattle, Washington • Pathfinders Press For the duration of all conference events - arrival April 7, 2010 Tel: +1 206 774 1234 • Socialist Workers (onsite registration begins at 2:00 p.m. then followed with an http://grandseattle.hyatt.com/ evening welcome reception; presentations begin April 8th in hyatt/hotels/ • Bilingual Review the morning); depart (morning) April 11, 2009 (conference • MALCS officially ends April 10th in the evening). The hotel will allow Rates: (not including tax) • Chicano Studies Research you to arrive beginning April 6th with the conference rate. For Center, UCLA additional dates, please contact the hotel. Single/Double: $119.00

This is a preliminary schedule. If a change should occur, sessions Conference Schedule will stay within the day assigned however start time may change.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibits 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration 9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Session Five 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. NACCS for Beginners 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Plenary II: Student Plenary 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Welcome Reception 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Awards Luncheon @ the Olive 8 2:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session Six Thursday, April 8, 2010 3:40 p.m. – 5: 00 p.m. Session Seven 5:10 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. Caucus Meetings 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration (Chicana, COMPAS, Grad Students, Joto) 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibits 6:20 p.m. – 7:20 p.m. Caucus Meetings 9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Session One (LBMT, Community, K-12, Student, Indigenous) 10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Welcome 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Receptions 10:50 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. Plenary I: NACCS Plenary 9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Cultural Night/Open Mic 12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. Session Two 2:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Session Three Saturday, April 10, 2010 3:30 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. Session Four 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Foco Meetings I 8:00 a.m. – 8:55 a.m. Foco Meetings II 6:10 p.m. – 7:10 p.m. Caucus Meetings 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Exhibits (Chicana, COMPAS, Grad Students, Joto) 9:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Session Eight 7:20 p.m. – 8:20 p.m. Caucus Meetings (LBMT, Community, K-12, Student, Indigenous) 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Plenary III: Chicana Plenary 8:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Joteria Reception 12:20 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Session Nine 1:50 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Session Ten Friday, April 9, 2010 3:20 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. Session Eleven 4:50 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Business Meeting 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration 6:10 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Closing Reception 8:00 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. Leadership Orientation

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12 February 2010 2010 Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio

We are pleased to announce the Student Premio Recipients The papers we receive continue to represent emerging schol- for 2010: arship from many outstanding students. We received five graduate and three undergraduate submissions that came Gabriel R. Valle, “The Hidden Costs: A Case • Graduate: from different focos. We encourage students to consider Study for Sustainable Development Studies,” San José submitting their papers next year. Likewise Mentors, help State University, Northern California Foco. your stellar students to submit this coming year. Submission • Undergraduate: Hector Gutierrez, “Beyond the deadline for 2011 is October 9, 2010. Binary: Constructing Notions of Legality in a Time of ‘Il- Felicidades to Gabriel and Hector! Please join us for their pre- legal’ Migration and Economic Recession in the Bay Area sentation at the Student Plenary on Friday, April 9 in Seattle. Day Labor Market,” University of California, Berkeley, Northern California Foco. Thank you to the Premio Reviewers, Nicole Guidotti-Hernán- dez, Richard Chabran, Rogelio Saenz, and Dionne Espinoza, Chair.

Hector Gutierrez is a fourth year Gabriel R. Valle was born and student at the University of Califor- raised in Truckee, CA in the Lake nia, Berkeley where he is majoring in Tahoe area. He received a BA in Ethnic Studies and City and Regional Chicana/o Studies at San Diego State planning interest. As the first in his University with a minor in Spanish family to go to college he is moti- in 2005. In 2009 he earned a MA in vated to succeed in his endeavors. Mexican American Studies where He credits his success to his family’s he concentrated in public policy. His support. He grew up in a single par- Cervantes paper is derived from his ent household which has influenced MA thesis, entitled: “Sustainable his life greatly. Gutierrez’s father immigrated to the U.S. in Tahoe: Bridging the Economic Gap,” which examines the order to make opportunities for his children. His father has al- economic, social, and environmental inequalities of the Lake ways motivated him to excel academically, always striving for Tahoe region. He states that he has “always been interested the best. His father’s encouragement has made him stand up in environmental and community issues”. The MAS program for what he believes and to fight for those who are silenced in at San Jose State University allowed him to take classes and the face of inequality. Gutierrez is passionate about pursuing a conduct research that examined the sustainability questions, career in higher education in order to transform the academy. the impact that public policy on the social, economic, and His goal is to contribute to the presence of Chican@s/Latin@s environmental conditions encountered by the Mexican- in higher education as scholars, activists and researchers, American community. teaching issues that matter to their communities. To conduct his research he was fortunate to receive a re- His research interests began as a desire to challenge the search grant from the College of Social Sciences of SJSU. institutional inequalities and racism faced by his communities. Profesora Julia Curry Rodríguez served as his faculty adviser He thanks his mentor Victoria Robinson and the UC Berkeley for the grant and chaired his thesis. His research is a result of McNair’s Scholar Program who showed him that it was pos- growing up in Tahoe, a tourist dependent economy known sible to be a researcher and activist. His winning paper was for its scenic beauty. He is currently living and working as a produced as a McNair project. teacher in Daegu, South Korea in hopes to expand his knowl- At UC Berkeley Gutierrez is actively involved in the Raza edge and experiences about the global community. Recruitment and Retention Center, an academic and career About writing a paper based on his thesis he writes: “I think development organization, that helps recruit, retain, and it was harder to cut stuff out then to write it in the first place. I demystify higher education for Chican@/Latin@ K-12 youth, found it really hard to cut and to make it shorter, the research parents and community college transfer students. seemed incomplete. I focused on the redevelopment sec- Gutierrez is honored at being selected for the Cervantes Pre- tion of the manuscript.” It is an honor to receive recognition mio and looks forward to NACCS in Seattle, Washington. for my research and my passion. My academic experience has been made possible because of the dedication of many individuals, organizations, and political figures. I thank the magnificent faculty of SJSU’s MAS department. Their efforts, insights, and continuous encouragement made my graduate

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www.naccs.org 13 (Gabriel R. Valle) continued from page 15

student experience memorable. I thank my thesis commit- Tahoe Family Resource Center were overwhelmingly help- tee, Professors Louis M. Holscher, now emeritus of SJSU and ful. Throughout my research it was their passion, heart, and Devon G. Peña of University of Washington and the Acequia struggle for community that have been my inspiration. To my Institute. I especially thank my chair, Prof. Curry, whose family and friends who have given me their time and support, countless hours have guided me through this long process. and who were my most dedicated readers, especially as they He states: “Many people at many important junctures of my fought the long hours of the night for my work I say millones life have helped my educational success—and I thank them all. de gracias. I thank Dr. Dionne Espinoza and the NACCS Cer- I express my sincerest thanks to the dozens of Tahoe locals who vantes Committee for selecting my work for this award. Thanks gave me the interviews and insights of the issues related to my for all the help. I hope to have the opportunity to continue my n research. The Truckee Family Resource Center and the South education as a worthy recipient of this award.” NACCS Immigrant Student Beca By Daniel Enrique Pérez, At Large Representative 2010 Plenary Speakers s we all know, Chicana and Chicano students face sev- NACCS PLENARY Aeral challenges while pursuing their academic goals, Thursday, April 8 but finding the financial resources to enter and remain in school continues to be among the most difficult challenges Environmental Justice for a Post-Neoliberal Age many of our students face. The NACCS Immigrant Student Beca Committee—Cynthia Duarte, Ana Juárez, and Daniel Diana Bustamente, Colonias Development Council, Enrique Pérez—would like to thank everyone who not only NM. recognized that it was necessary to address the particularly trying situation our immigrant students are often in, but who Rufina Juarez, South Central Farmers Feeding Fam- were also willing to donate money to la causa. ilies, founding member.

We are happy to announce that we have awarded our first Moderator: Devon Peña, NACCS Chair, 2010-2011. NACCS Immigrant Student Becas to three individuals who have demonstrated an unyielding commitment to pursuing FREDERICK A. CERVANTES higher education despite the many obstacles that have been Student Plenary, Friday, April 9 placed in front of them. We thank the generous support of our members. This year $1300 will be distributed among the Cervantes Recipients following recipients: Gabriel R. Valle, San José State University. “The »» Hortencia Jiménez, Doctoral Student, Sociology, Univer- Hidden Costs: A Case Study for Sustainable Devel- sity of Texas at Austin opment Studies.” Graduate Recipient. »» Eric Lara, Undergraduate Student, Materials Engineer- Hector Gutierrez, University of California, Berkeley. ing, San José State University “Beyond the Binary: Constructing Notions of Legal- »» Marla A. Ramírez, doctoral student, Chicana/o Studies, ity in a Time of ‘Illegal’ Migration and Economic UC Santa Bárbara Recession in the Bay Area Day Labor Market.” Undergraduate Recipient. These awards go well beyond providing financial assistance to these individuals. They also serve to recognize them and their Moderator: Dionne Espinoza, Cervantes Committee work as legitimate, meaningful, and valuable. As Hortencia Chair. Jiménez eloquently expressed in an e-mail to us upon receiv- ing an award letter, “Words fall short to express the emotions CHICANA PLENARY that I am going through right now. This award means so much Saturday, April 10 and it’s a reminder that I do have a place in academia and that it’s important to have Latinas/Chicanas writing and researching Panelists to be announced. about our communities so that their voices are heard.” Moderator: Mary Pardo, Co-Chair, Chicana Caucus Yes, we all have a place in academia and our future gets brighter as we continue to transform our institutions and our communities by helping our gente participate in them. We would like to congratulate these outstanding individuals and Conference information and presentations unable encourage all members to make a contribution to this fund to fit in this newsletter available at NACCS.org. so that we may assist even more students next year. n

14 February 2010 Guidelines for submitting Resolutions The following are the guidelines for submitting resolutions at the NACCS national conference.

All resolutions must be submitted for consideration dur- The Foco and Caucus must take responsibility for wording its ing the general business meeting and need to emerge from resolution in such a manner that it is actually a resolution and and be approved by a Foco or Caucus. The Foco and Caucus not a call for support on an issue relevant to only one region. meetings are scheduled before the business meeting and will Resolutions need to be edited in order to make sense. Reso- be the main avenue for processing Foco and Caucus resolu- lutions must provide names of persons who are expected to tions. Resolutions from the floor during the business meeting act on behalf of NACCS and their professional or community will not be entertained. affiliation. Foco Representatives and Caucus Chairs are responsible for Resolutions that do not meet the criteria will not be consid- typing and submitting approved resolutions to the NACCS ered. Once the resolutions are accepted (vetted) by the Board Secretary. Resolutions must be submitted by Friday, April 9 they will be presented to the general membership at the at 9:00 p.m. at the NACCS Registration desk area or in an NACCS general business meeting. electronic format (jump drive (USB) or CD). Or you can email A consent agenda format (all resolutions are approved au- your resolution to [email protected]. tomatically unless a member requests that a specific resolu- All resolutions submitted must conform to the following rules: tion be removed for discussion and vote) will be presented • The resolution must identify which Foco or Caucus is during the business meeting. Resolutions that are pulled putting the resolution forth; from the consent agenda or do not make the consent agenda will be voted on by the membership within two months of • The resolution must provide names of contact person(s) the conference online. Members will have an opportunity to with phone numbers in case further clarification is neces- discuss the resolutions online. Details of this discussion will sary. be forthcoming. • If the resolution has budget implications, the resolution The location of available computers and other necessary must include amount and purpose. resources needed by the Focos and Caucuses to produce the • The resolution must be worded in such a way that the resolutions will be announced and made available at the na- implementation of such resolution be realistic in terms of tional conference site. Any questions should be directed to the funding requirements and logistics involved. Chair of NACCS or Secretary. n

NACCS Student Presenter Conference Fellowship

In 2000 NACCS established a student housing subsidy to pro- • reside at least 100 miles away from the conference site. vide assistance to student presenters at the annual meeting. • register for the conference. The fellowship marks an effort by NACCS to mentor students in their academic development by formally establishing the • NOT received this award more than a total of two times. subsidy in 2001 as the Presenter Conference Fellowship for • students are responsible for making their own hotel student presenters during the annual NACCS meeting. The reservations. Fellowship covers a one-night stay only at the conference ho- Award of the Fellowship is based on financial need and re- tel (Hyatt Regency Hotel) based on the single/double confer- gional location. You are required to attend the Award Lun- ence hotel rate. cheon to be recognized as a recipient.

Application Criteria: To be considered for this Fellowship, submit the following • current student member of NACCS. application by February 27, 2010. Recipients will be notified prior to the conference of their award. This is not a monetary full time registered student in an institution of higher • award. This is an online application ONLY. Go to www.naccs. learning. org for application. n • been accepted to present research at the NACCS Annual meeting. • stay for the duration of the conference at the conference hotel (arrive April 7 and depart April 11).

www.naccs.org 15 (Devon G. Peña, Ph.D.) continued from page 1 Diana Bustamante, executive director of Northridge advancing new theoretical poor to call it that.” We have come a the Colonias Development Council in perspectives on environmental racism, long way and environmental problems New Mexico, will discuss the politics of political ecology, and eco-socialism. and themes are now widely addressed environmental impact studies and risk science by drawing from experiences in During Session Six we have scheduled by Chicana and Chicano Studies schol- two panels focused on the conference ars. I believe this is so not because of efforts to implement an environmental justice policy for New Mexico and to theme: One is on “The Commons and what scholars have written but rather Neoliberal Enclosures” and includes because our communities have been redefine the nature of environmental risk assessment practices. four presenters addressing the struggles redefining the cutting-edge in the for the recovery of commons in the movements and discourses of envi- Each day will feature at least 2-3 ses- context of urban agriculture, restoration ronmentalism for several decades. Our sions dedicated to the conference theme. of land grants, and resistance against environmental activism dates back For Session Two we have scheduled a white supremacy. Another panel dur- at least to the farm worker struggle panel on “Community Food: Develop- ing this session features the topic of against pesticides but Latina/o activism ing Traditional Farming and Associations “Environmentalism and Aesthetics in became a more prominent aspect of the to Empower Latinos.” The panel will Chicano/a History” that will feature col- environmental justice movement dur- include four presenters and one discus- leagues from the Universities of Mary- ing the formal naming and rise of that sant from UC-Santa Barbara. Thursday’s land, Kansas State, and Texas Tech. movement in the mid to late 1980s. Session Three will feature a panel on On session Seven we will feature a panel The 2010 conference has more than a “Contemporary Natural Resource Man- agement and Traditional Indo-Hispano on “Chicos del horno: A Local, Slow, dozen panel, roundtable, and workshop and Deep Food.” The panelists, two of sessions focused on environmental and Subsistence Knowledge.” The panel will address New Mexico land-based com- them farmers, will use photography and food justice and related areas of ecologi- video to demonstrate the preparation of cal research and activism. We have out- munities and their agroecological knowl- edge, ecological ethics, and place-based this rare, adobe-oven roasted white corn standing panels on the environmental and will discuss the cultural, ecological, justice movement, food sovereignty and practices for a resilient and just regional economy. Featured in this panel are col- and political significance of chicos for the food justice, the politics of acequia water slow/local food movements. law, the enclosure and recovery of the leagues from New Mexico Highlands commons and neoliberalism, sustainable University, land grant collectives, and Session Eight on Saturday will feature agriculture, the preservation of heritage acequia associations. several important panels including cuisines, Chicana/o literary eco-criticism, On Session Four we will feature a panel “Acts of Survival: Geographies of Vio- biotechnology and genetically engi- entitled, “Hands in the Earth, Feet on lence and Resistance en la Frontera,” a neered organisms (GEOs), case studies the Ground: A Return to the Land in panel that will include presentations on of struggles against toxic racism, and Literature, Agriculture, and Identity.” the “The San Elizario Salt War,” “Con- critical analyses of the politics of risk sci- This panel will feature three colleagues taminated Bodies,” “Ecology of Fear,” ence and environmental impact studies. from Stanford University address- and “Razed on the Border: Race, Citi- zenship, and the Art of Belonging”. I would like to highlight some of the ing agriculture as a central aspect of sessions that address the conference Chicana/o and mexicana/o literature, Session Nine will include a roundtable on theme. We start with the “Opening activism, and cultural production. “Youth Empowerment for Environmental Plenary” that features two speakers On the following session there are two and Educational Justice in Los Angeles” who are activists and scholars in their conference theme panels: “Challenging involving students and teachers from LA- own right and will address the confer- and Transforming Colorado Water Law area high schools and Session Ten will ence theme. Rufina Juarez, one of the for Acequia Survival” will present the feature a panel on “Slow Death in the co-founders of the South Central Farm- collaborative work of Joe C. Gallegos, Green Desert: Community Mobilization ers Feeding Families in Los Angeles Devon G. Peña, and Gregory A. Hicks on to Clean Air, Earth, and Water in Imperial and a farmer in the Imperial Valley, the power/knowledge politics surround- County, California,” with presenters from will open the plenary by discussing ing the drafting and passage of Colo- the Comite Civico del Valle, Revografia, the central role of gender- and class- rado’s 2009 “Acequia Recognition Law”. and the National Latino Research Center based contradictions facing indigenous Another panel will focus on “Chicanos/ in San Marcos, CA. women in the organization of struggles as, the Environment, and the Capitalist Finally, also during Session Nine, we for food justice at South Central and Crisis: Racism, Decolonization, and Green would like to feature the roundtable on the growing number of urban farms Socialism.” This will include presentations and gardens across the hemisphere. Dr. by several colleagues from Cal State- Continued on page 17

16 February 2010 (Devon G. Peña, Ph.D.) continued from page 16 The NACCS Executive Board, officers, We expect this work will strengthen “Fighting Pollution from the Ground and conference organizers are proud to our community-based struggles for a Up.” This session will feature grassroots present such a wide range of perspec- world yearning to break through the youth activists from Communities for tives on environmental and food justice. greed and destructiveness of the neo- a Better Environment (CBE) and Youth We anticipate that this year our confer- liberal age that we seek to end through EJ/CBE/Southwest Network for Envi- ence activities will extend outward to this celebration and empowerment of ronmental and Economic Justice. the farms, gardens, workplaces, and brown-green activism and social change homes that share our hunger and thirst scholarship. n for environmental and food justice.

A Selected Preliminary Program (a complete program with date and time for each panel will be available in the printed program)

Thursday, April 8, 2010 Hermosillo, Jesus. UC Los Angeles. “On the Eco- Zepeda, Susy. UC Santa Cruz. nomic Impact of LA’s Loncheras, the Taquerias Alvarez, Pablo. CSU Northridge. Sessions One-Four on Wheels---and Social Mobility Engines of the Roman, Estela. Centro Internacional para la Cul- Latino Local Economy.” tura y la Enseñza. Performance and Identity: Exploring Issues Gutierrez, Livier. UC Berkeley. “Becoming a of Identity Through Performance Promotoras, Parents, and Student Educa- Latino Minuteman: the Development and Practice Velazquez Vargas, Yarma. CSU Northridge. tional Advocates of Nativism within the Latino Community.” Sanchez-Tello, George. CSU Northridge. Furumoto, Rosa. CSU Northridge. “Chicana Style Jimenez, Hortencia. UT Austin. “The 2006 Mobili- Rodriguez, Luis M. CSU Northridge. Parental Caring in Schools: The Challenge of zations and Immigrant Rights Coalitions.” Santillana, Jose Manuel. CSU Northridge. Transforming School Environments.” Saenz, Arthur. San Diego State Univ. “Perils of Trujillo, Armando and Martinez, Carmen. UT San Tent Cities, Round-ups and Workers Rights: Reconstruction: Unauthorized Latina/o Haz- Antonio. “The Role of Promotoras in Education: Building a Movement in the Valley of the Sun ardous Work Conditions in Post-Katrina New Building Bridges to Success among Ethnically Sanidad, Cristina. ASU. Orleans.” Diverse Students.” de la Fuente, Nic. ASU. Voces de la Frontera: Revealing Silenced Sanchez, Irene. Univ of Washington. “Chicana/o Gonzalez, Francisco. ASU. Identities Students and Educational Empowerment: Case Tellez, Michelle. ASU. Ontiveros, Hilda. UT El Paso. “Chicanas and study of Community Based Intervention Pro- Using Political Economy and Popular Edu- Mexicanas in the El Paso Garment Industry: 1969- grams.” cation in Chican@/Latin@ Studies 1999.” Alaniz, Monica, South Texas College & UT San Zaragoza, Tony. Evergreen State College. Montelongo, Irma. UT El Paso. “On What Side Antonio; and Trevino-Schouten, Belinda, Our Santillan-Marquez, Erika. Evergreen State College. of the Line Did the Body Lay: A Murder in the Lady of the Lake Univ. “Reading between the Gonzales, Nick. Evergreen State College. Borderlands .” Lines: Written Communication by Schools and Galvez, Isabel. Evergreen State College. Arrieta, Jesse S. UT El Paso. “Invisible Latina Migrant Families.” Lesbian Identities: Border Butches and Frontera “Private or Public”- Behind Sather Gate: Femmes.” Contemporary Latino and Latina Narratives Raza Students and Staff in Action. Eils, Colleen. UT Austin. “Colors, Maps, Artifacts: Vargas, Gabby. UC Berkeley. Exploring the Impact of Race, Violence, Imagining Alternative Literary and Publishing Cubias, Sami. UC Berkeley. Schooling, and Social Contexts on the Environments in ¡Caramba!.” Rivera, Uriel. UC Berkeley. Futures of Latina/o Youth Mazique, Rachel. UT Austin. “Violence and Love Huerta, Elisa. UC Berkeley. Acevedo, Nancy. UC Los Angeles. in America’s Dream.” Galllegos-Diaz, Lupe. UC Berkeley. Madrigal, Yanira Ivonne. SJSU. Barragán, Philis. UT Austin. “The Gentrification Ortiz, Noralee. SJSU. The Creation and Ownership of Our Spaces: Behind Latinidad in Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Rodriguez, Jessica. SJSU. El Espacio Para Seguir Adelante Dreams.” Espinoza, Damarys. UW Seattle. “Amar sin gol- “Inmates Matter” Program: Latino Inmate Chair: González, John. UT Austin. Engagement and Empowerment in Omaha, pear. Indigenous women and gender violence Performing Identity, the Ecstatic, Dance in Peru: Creating community and pathways to Nebraska Power-Play, and Afro-Diasporic Legacy in health and healing.” Cruz, Ana. UN Omaha. Xican@ Musics and Literature Ramirez, Luis. UC Davis. “The Transformative Brignoni, Evangelina. UN Omaha. Macias, Roberto. St. Phillips College. “Confining Value of Masculinity through HipHop Music Garcia, Claudia. UN Omaha. Consciousness: Space, Identity, and the Prison Within a Community College Space.” Gouveia, Lourdes. UN Omaha. in Jimmy Santiago Baca’s A Place to Stand: The Salvador, Jessica E.. UW Seattle. “Navegando la Guerra, Ramon. UN Omaha. Making of a Poet.” Universidad: The Role of Place in the Engagement La Madre Tierra, Global Environment, and Hernández Gutiérrez, Alexandro David. UC Los of Chican@/Latin@ Undergraduate Students.” Sacred Paths of Transition Angeles. “‘Exoskeletal Junction at the Railroad Immigration, Urbanism, and the Viccisitates Garcia, Juan. Director, Fresno Family Counseling Delayed’: Theatric ‘Saltanah’ and Mysticism for Sale in the Mars Volta.” of Local-Global Politics Center.

www.naccs.org 17 Pérez, Alejandro. UC Berkeley. “Embodiments in Mujerista Mentoring for Chicanas in Higher Violation of Human Rights in the border Aztlán: Music, Movement(s) & Desire in the Tex- Education City of Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua: restitution, Mex Borderlands .” Villaseñor, Maria. CSUMonterey Bay. deconstruction and resistance Diaz-Sánchez, Micaela. Nortwestern Unviversity. Reyes, Maria. SJSU. Limas, Alfredo. Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad “‘With Coyolxauhqui in One Hand and Yemayá Muñoz, Imelda.CSU Monterey Bay. Juárez, Chihuahua. “Environments of Injustice, in the Other’: Performing African Diasporic Lega- School and Young Students: the Construction of Playing for Space: Globalization, Urbaniza- Fear and the Culture of Violence on Young kids in cies in Chicana Cultural Production.” tion and the Politics of Futbol in East Los Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua.” Angeles Chicana/o Environmentalism in the Torres, Sonia. Centro de Desarrollo Integro de la Classroom? Social Sustainability and the Anguiano, Jose. UC Santa Barbara. “Soccer En Mujer. Cd. Juarez. “Feminicide in Cd. Juárez and Rethinking of Privilege, Access, and Local Tu Idioma: A Transnational Analysis of the rise of international advocacy: Reparation process and Knowledges Mexican Fútbol in the United States.” Justice.” Trujillo, Patricia. Colorado State Univ - Pueblo. Ortega, Ricardo. UC Santa Barbara. “In Search Chew, Martha. St. Lawrence Univ. “Critical Dis- “Ristra Composition and Water Righting/Writing: of a Goal: Fútbol Spaces in the City of East Los course Analysis of Families of Victims of Femini- Sustainable, Land-based Pedagogical Practices in Angeles.” cide in Cd. Juárez.” Northern New Mexico.” Hinojos, Sara. UC Santa Barbara. “Offsides!: An Chair: Chew, Martha. St. Lawrence Univ. Ramirez-Dhoore, Dora. Boise State Univ. “Social Undocumented Immigrant’s struggle to Navigate Sustainability and Toxic Rhetoric: A Methodology the Field.” Access to Sustenance: Food and Water Justice in Interpreting Mythology.” Mares, Teresa. Univ of Washington. “Where We The Politics of Maiz and Movement- López, Viviana. Boise State Univ. “Environments Building in Chicana/o-Latina/o-Mexicana/o Cultivate, Cook, and Eat: Food Justice is Environ- of White Supremacy and Privilege: Reproducing Communities: An Arts-based Workshop mental Justice.” and Normalizing the Colonization and Genocide Gonzalez Castro, Sylvia. Colectivo CASA Chapulin. Jimenez, Alberta. SJSU. “Water Security in Immi- of the Other in Schools.” Ockenfels-Martinez, Martha. Mo Dance Collective. grant, Chicana and Chicano communities in Cut- ler, California.” PACIFICA: Voices of the Chicana/o Movement Wolbert Perez, Alejandro. UC Berkeley. Carney, Megan. UC Santa Barbara. “Latina/Chi- Torres, Mark. Pacifica Radio Archives. La Voz de la Mujer Chicana a través de los cana Women in the Transition from Food Security Toledo, Edgar. Pacifica Radio Archives. Siglos: Coraje, Resistencia y Realización to Food Sovereignty: The Making of Community- Morales, John. Los Angeles Mission College. Fonseca, Vanessa. ASU. “La Resistencia Cultural based Food Policy.” Maldonado, Jose. Los Angeles Mission College. en tres Novelas Chicanas: The Squatter and the Serrato, Claudia. CSULos Angeles. “Ecological Subverting Citizenship, Rights and the State: Don, Romance of a Little Village Girl and Dew on Food Justice and Indigenous Plant-Based Food- Practices of Belonging and Community at the Thorn.” ways: Healing All of Our Relations.” the U.S./Mexico Border Baeza, Ileana. ASU. “Paletitas de guayaba: Tren Rojas, Clarissa. CSULong Beach. “Pain(t)ed Fenc- destino a Aztlán, con escala en Tenochtitlán.” Issues in Contemporary Latina/o es: Art Against Violence (Trans)forming Borders.” Encinas, Diana. ASU. “Intertextualidad y cultura Calvo, William. UC Santa Barbara. “Wise Latina: Bejarano, Cynthia. New Mexico State Univ. “Sus- en Loving Pedro Infante de Denise Chávez.” The Sotomayor’s Case as an Epistemological taining Dignity in the Face of Terror: Border Citi- Ramos, Tomás. ASU. “Dialogic Borders and Conflict.” zenship, Belonging and Gendered Resistance.” Imaginations: Subaltern poetics in Denise Chavez Rincon, Belinda. Willamette Univ. “Latina Sol- Sanchez, Gabriella. ASU. “Rush Hour Bajador: narrative’s Loving Pedro Infante.” diering and the Global War on Terror.” The Criminalization of the Human Smuggler as a Moderator: Rosales, Jesús. ASU. Calderon, Jose. Pitzer College. “The Role of Lati- Form of State Violence.” nos and Multi-Racial Alliances in the Election of Critical Race Case Method: A Tool for Prac- Tellez, Michelle. ASU. “‘Porque somos mexica- Barack Obama.” ticing Social Justice in Administration and nos’: Reflections on belonging, the nation and Teaching Bracero Legacies, Politicized Memories, and community building.” Ochoa, Vanessa. UC Los Angeles. Institutional Challenges Discussant: Lugo, Alejandro. Univ of Illinois at Benavides-Lopez, Corina. UC Los Angeles. Lopez, Paul. CSUChico. “Bracero Wives: Then Urbana-Champaign. Chair: Solorzano, Daniel. UC Los Angeles. and Now.” Radicalizing Education: the Role of De Anda, Roberto. Portland State Universtiy. Chicana/o Students and Critical Community Mexicans and Public Space in Chicago, Illinois “Ernesto Galarza, Braceros, and the State.” Relations De Los Santos, Laura. Univ of Chicago. “White- Summers Sandoval, Tomás. Pomona College. “I Ochoa, Gilda, Pomona College; and de los Rios, washed Wall, Hidden History: The Mexican Pres- have seen my ‘temple’ beginning to crumble”: Cati, Pomona High School. “Working Together ence in Blue Island, Illinois.” Ethnic Mexicans and Power in the Salinas Valley, to Transform Education and Decolonize Relation- Robles, Rigoberto. UI Chicago. “Urban Scripture 1965-1973.” of the Invisibles.” ships: Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Pomona Evolving Chicana/o Studies Pedagogy: EDUniv- High School and Pomona College.” Villa, Gabriel. Yollocalli, National Museum of eristy of California,ATING the Whole Student Alfaro, Daisy. UW Seattle. “Quantifying Chi- Mexican Art. Salcedo, Claudia.CSU Northridge. canas/os: Redefining Quantitative Variables to Chair: Gutierrez, Elena. UI Chicago. Arana, Jessica.CSU Northridge. Accurately Portray the Chicana/o Educational Teatro Mexicayotl: K-12 Curriculum Cen- Sanchez, George.CSU Northridge. Experience.” tered on a Path towards Humanization and Chair: Furumoto, Rosa.CSU Northridge. DeSoto, Aureliano. Metropolitan State Univ. “El Conscientization for Chicana/o Students Plan de Santa Barbara at 40: Midlife Crisis or What a Difference a Few Decades Makes: New Gonzalez, Norma. TUSD, Mexican American Flatline?” Department. Directions in Chicana/o Cultural Production Bravo, Rosa. UC Berkeley. “A Case Study of How Gonzalez, José. TUSD, Mexican American Román, Elda María. Stanford Univ. “‘Token of Latino Parents’ Access College Information.” Department. Unappreciation’: Middle-Class Crises on the George Lopez Show.”

18 February 2010 Estrella, James M.. Stanford Univ. “‘Get it on the Friday, April 9, 2010 Varela, Laura. San Antonio Filmmakers. Eastside’: Homiesexuals and Queer Urban Sub- Garza, Teresita (Tere). St. Edward’s Univ. culture in Chicano/Latino Los Angeles.” Sessions Five-Seven Chair: Mendoza, Louis. Univ of Minnesota. Carrillo, Guadalupe. Stanford Univ. “Doing Dif- Cultural Celebration, Identity, and School- ference Differently: Disability in the era of Post- Politics of the Sovereign Ban: Labor, Race, ing as Ideological Discursive Formation modernity in Salvador Plascencias’ The People of and Exclusion de Katzew, Lilia and Katzew, Adriana. CSUStan- Paper.” Hernández, Roberto. UC Berkeley. “Citizens and islaus. “Celebrando Cultura: Voices from Califor- Jimenez, Cristina. Stanford Univ. “Looking Out Felons: HR4437 and the Discursive Politics of nia’s Central Valley Chicana/o Students in their to See In: the Transamerican and Cosmopolitan Race and Felony Disenfranchisement Laws.” search for identity.” Presence in Gilded Age U.S. Literature.” Garcia, Armando. Cornell Univ. “Geographies of Sorrow: Brown Affect and Latina Narratives of Chacon, Ramon. Santa Clara Univ. “The Educa- Searching for Form in Tomás Rivera: Laugh- Migration.” tional Dilemma in Fresno, CA.” ter, Fear, and Religion Rodriguez, Cesar. UC Santa Barbara. “Reproduc- Lechuga, Chalane. UNM. “‘[Hispanic is] like Reyes, Robert. UC Berkeley. “Religion as Ideo- ing Incarcerable Subjects: Black and Brown Youth more American, but still a little bit Mexican’: logical Warfare In Tomás Rivera’s ...y no se lo in the Crucible of Neoliberalism and Neoconser- Racial and Ethnic Identities of Young Latinas in a tragó la tierra and Ronald L. Ruiz’s Happy Birth- vatism.” New Mexico High School.” day Jesus.” Guzmán, Georgina. UC Los Angeles. “‘Always Orozco, Richard. Oregon State Univ. “A Theory Huerta, Javier. UC Berkeley. “Laughter and the the Laborer’: Shifting Spatial Environments, of Ideological Discursive Formation Construction Pachuco in Tomás Rivera’s El Pete Fonseca.” Racialized Labor, and Chicano Anxieties in and Chicana/o Schooling.” Granado, Alma. UC Berkeley. “Fear and the Américo Paredes’ George Washington Gómez.” Chicana Writers: Rebels for Identity, Space Abject in Tomás Rivera’s The Salamanders.” and Social Justice Chair: Saldívar, José David. UC Berkeley. Latina/o Youth and Educational Dilemmas Garay, Joyce. New Mexico State Univ. “Ravaged Acevedo, Nancy. UC Los Angeles. “Latina/o Photovoice as a Research Tool for working Spaces, Fractured Communities: The Ecocritical Univ-Admitted Students’ Decision Making: Put- with Chicano Populations Agenda in Helena María Viramontes’ Fiction.” ting “Everything” into Perspective.” Garcia, Jaime H. UT Brownsville. Morales, Orquidea. Univ of Texas PanAmerican. Martinez, Isabel. Teachers College, Columbia Smith, Patrick H. UT El Paso. “Chicanas: The Poetry of Anzaldúa and Downs as Univ. “Making Transnational Adults out of Youth: Diaz, Maria. UT Brownsville. Rebellion.” Mexican Immigrant Youth in New York City.” Sanchez Benitez, Roberto. Universidad Michoac- In a State of Nepantla: Gloria Anzaldúa on Segura, Denise and Lomeli, Monica. UC Santa ana. “Mito y espiritualidad en dos escritoras chi- the Convergence of Creativity and Spirituality Barbara. “Dilemmas of Diversity: Inclusion and canas: Gloria Anzaldúa y Ana Castillo.” Román-Odios, Clara. Kenyon College. “Re-Wit- Exclusion of Racial-Ethnic Minority Graduate Stu- Szeghi, Tereza. Univ of Dayton. “Locating Cul- nessing the Terrorist State: Visions for Spiritual dents in Sociology.” tural Identity in Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Transformation in Liliana Wilson’s Artwork.” Working as Professors in the “Ivory Tower”: Letters.” Latorre, Guisela. Ohio State Univ. “Artistas Stories about Survival, Strategies, and Success Nepantleras: Anzaldúa’s Influence on Visual Art Literature as Recovery and Transformative Castaneda, Mari. Univ of Massachusetts Amherst. Theory and Praxis.” Imaginaries “Laboring Towards Tenure and Succeeding.” Nieto, Nicole K. Ohio State Univ. “Domestic Mah y Busch, Juan. Loyola Marymount Univ. “A Hames-Garcia, Michael. UO , Eugene. “Moving Altars: Gendered Spaces and the Construction of Chicana/o Aesthetic of Survival and Life: An Ethi- from Associate Professor to Full.” the Altar Narrative in Women’s Life Histories.” cal Theory.” Genetin, Victoria. Ohio State Univ. “An ‘Uncon- Digital Storytelling: Building a sustainable Mata, Irene. Wellesley College. “Of Blood and scious Allegiance:’ Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s theory of bridge between two youth communities Thorns: Uncovering Histories of Violence in ‘Spiritual Activism’ and engaged Buddhism.” Arauz, JuanCarlos. E-3: Educational Excellence & Lucha Corpi’s Cactus Blood.” Moderator: Wilson, Liliana. Independent Artist. Equity. Cantu, Norma. UT San Antonio. “De Aca de Este Mendez, Deysi. One Dream 2009. Lado: Tejano and Tejana Texts.” Food Justice: Youth Education, Health, and Identity Politics Listening to Immigration: The politics Collaborations in the Struggle for Social Torrez, Estrella. Michigan State Univ. “Food, Edu- behind Chicana/o-based immigration Justice cation and Youth: Reclaiming a Space in Schools research Sinha, Mrinal and Hurtado, Aida. UC Santa Cruz. for our Indigenous Community Knowledge.” Ortega, Ricardo. UC Santa Barbara. “Latino “The ‘Centrality of Women’ in the lives of Femi- Ortiz, Amelia.UW Whitewater. “How to Encour- Undergraduates Navigating the Undocumented nist Latinos.” age Children in Gardening so they can Enjoy all Univ.” Cervantez, Karina. UC Santa Cruz. “Collabora- the Benefits Associated?” Ramirez, Marla. UC Santa Barbara. “ Undocu- tions in the Borderlands: Constructing knowledge Cardenas, Norma. Oregon State Univ. “(Un)pal- mented Immigrant Youth & AB-540 College within Mother-Daughter Programs.” atable Food Discourses: Decolonial Representa- Students: Crossing Physical, Emotional and Lopez, Angelica and Quinones, Feliz. UC Santa tions of Chicana/o Identity.” Educational Borders to Make the DREAM Act a Cruz. “The Role Organizations for Students of Dicochea, Perlita, Santa Clara Univ; and Villase- Reality.” Color along the Educational Pipeline.” ñor, Maria. CSUMonterey Bay. “Food, Health, Ferrada, Juan Sebastian. UC Santa Barbara. ““Pal Chair: Hurtado, Aida. 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Polleros: Rural Mexican farmers and the politics of “Instruction of Chicana/o Students in Building Using Children’s Literature to Address Homophobia and Heterosexism in the globalization.” Awareness of Socioeconomic and Environmental Veloz, John.UW Whitewater. “International Trade Justice.” Schools Garcia, Jaime H. UT Brownsville. and the Effects on Latin America Economy and La comunidad dentro del la historia fron- Pendlelton Jimenez, Karleen. Trent Univ. Ecology with Emphasis in the Dominican Republic.” teriza: community, archives and museums Luna, Fatima. UC Berkeley. “Organic Coffee: An Chavez Leyva, Yolanda. UT El Paso. “Exhibiting Alternative for Sustainable Development in Chi- Revolución: the Mexican Revolution, Pedagogy Saturday, April 10, 2010 apas, Mexico.” and Community.” Sessions Eight-Eleven Pursuit of Environmental Justice and its Renteria, Cynthia. 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Springs. torical, and Indigenous Perspectives Aesthetic Passions: A Potporri Gonzalez, Juan Carlos. CSUFresno. Bustamante, Diana and Martinez, Sofia. New Ruiz, Jason. U of Notre Dame. “‘Such Queer Phases Peguero, Anthony. Miami Univ. Mexco Environmental Justice Working Group. of Life’: Time, Progress, and Modernity in American Pentecostal Conversion as Migrating Faith “Environmental Justice Policy Initiatives en el Travelers’ Depictions of Mexico, 1876-1920.” or Transgenic Danger: Case Studies from Estado del Encanto.” Galindo, Alberto. Whitman College. “Ciudad Los Altos de Jalisco, the Sierra Juárez, and Martinez, Sofia. UNM. “History, Evolution and Juárez as Detective Fiction: the Case of Roberto southern Florida Mutation: The Environmental Justice Movement.” Bolaño’s 2666.” Fortuny Loret de Mola, Patricia. CIESAS-Golfo. Janyk, Spencer. Whitman College. “Ecología de Mora, Gregorio. 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20 February 2010 Literatura de la Frontera escrita en Español: in Chicano Film: Gregory Nava’s Mi Familia and Reading (Im)migrant Children: Centering Trans- Lucha por Sobrevivencia y Solidaridad the Hybrid ‘Holy Family’ Motif.” national Bodies and Literacies.” García, Ignacio. Brigham Young Univ. “El man- Elenes, C. Alejandra. ASU. “Borderland Feminist tenimiento fronterizo del español en relación al Literary Narratives and Representations Epistemologies, Conocimiento, and Reflexivity.” nacionalismo cultural chicano.” Ruiz, Sandra. UC Los Angeles. “‘From Rhyme to Hernandez-Gutierrez, Manuel de Jesus. ASU. Rosales, Jesús. ASU. “La otra Frontera de Alfonso Crime’: Porous Environments, Fluctuating Identi- “Resistance and the Blame Game: The Environ- Rodríguez: Golpe a la Hispanidad Chicana.” ties and an Intuitive Sleuth in Lucha Corpi’s Lit- mental Struggle in Chican@ Cultural Produc- González, Juan Antonio. 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El Centro de la Raza. Dancers, Mothers, and Grandmothers: Cantu, Margaret. UT San Antonio. “Los Abuelos, Routte, Irene. El Centro de la Raza. Expression and Performance as Knowledge the New Organic Intellectuals and the Family Mujeres y sus Familias: un Pie en Cada Lado Production Cuentos They Tell: An Examination of Oral His- Flores, Marco. UC Berkeley. “Mujeres de Ciudad Luna, Jennie. UC Davis. “Living Codices: Women tory as Cultural Education versus Assimilation.” Juárez: Entre la Vida y la Muerte.” Elders and Wisdom Keepers in Danza Mexica Gutierrez, Christina. The UT San Antonio. Cuevas, Stephany. UC Berkeley. “Patriarchy as a Tradition.” “Toward a New Aesthetic: Contextualizing an War Tool: Gendered Violence as Counterinsur- Delfin, Eve. UC Merced. “Bodies of Refuge: Folk- Embodied Poetic in Latina Breast Cancer Narra- gency in Civil War Guatemala.” lorico Heaven.” tives.” Gonzalez, Karina. UC Berkeley. “Women during Mercado-Lopez, Larissa. UT San Antonio. “Phe- Garcia, Magda. 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22 February 2010 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEATTLE AND THE PUGET SOUND BIOREGION

eattle is a major city and seaport with two thousand year-old trees located in the Pacific Northwest. that towered more than 400 feet, SSituated in the western part of Washing- became the raw material to be ton state on an isthmus between Puget exploited by this first in a long Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and line of extractive industries. Once Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 these forests were exhausted, km) south of the Canada – United States the timber industry spread to the border, it is named after Chief Seattle interior with equally devastating (Sealth, Seathle, Seathl, or See-ahth), of consequences. the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. In the meantime, the exploita- The encompassing Seattle–Tacoma–Bel- tion of salmon and other fish levue metropolitan statistical area is the became the next big extractive 15th largest in the United States, and the industry and Seattle became a largest in the northwestern United States. major hub for salmon, halibut, Radical labor organizers and activists Seattle is a major economic, cultural and and crab fisheries eventually stretching from the Industrial Workers of the World educational center in the region. As of south to Oregon and north to Alaska. The (IWW) arrived in Seattle in 1910 and by 1 April 2009, the city had an estimated railroads arrived in Tacoma in 1873 and 1913 the first labor “insurrection” oc- municipal population of 602,000. Seattle in 1884. This opened the flood- curred. On July 17, sailors harassed an The Duwamish, a Coast Salish people, gates to more settlers and the growth of IWW speaker during Seattle’s Potlatch are the original inhabitants of the Seattle fishing and other industries including Days festival. There were two days of area and one of six First Nations that are lumber, export agriculture, and manu- rioting and fistfights. On June 1, 1916, the living cultural heart of the Puget Sound facturing. The Great Seattle Fire of June longshoremen [sic] staged the first of bioregion. The First Nations of the East- 6, 1889 ended the first phase of settler several significant strikes and the Boeing ern Puget Sound include the Duwamish, history. Started by a spilled glue pot, the Company was quietly established about a Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Snoqualmie, fire burned 29 city blocks, but the city was year later (in 1917). Tulalip, and Puyallup. It is a continuing quickly rebuilt. But Seattle’s labor history is perhaps best injustice that the first peoples of Seattle, the The Klondike Gold Rush, a.k.a. Yukon remembered for the General Strike of Duwamish, do not yet have federal recog- Gold Rush, started in earnest in 1897 on 1919. The Seattle General Strike (Febru- nition as an American Indian Nation. the heels of the discovery of gold placers ary 6-11) was a general work stoppage These indigenous communities continue by a Native tribesman of the Tagish Na- by more than 65,000 workers. Most local to struggle against the enduring effects tion, Keish (a.k.a. Skookum Jim Mason). unions, including members of the Ameri- of enclosure of homelands, structural In the aftermath of a financial panic, the can Federation of Labor (AFL) and the violence, and historical trauma. Coast Sal- gold rush secured Seattle’s place as a ma- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), ish peoples are also experiencing a strong jor port hub for the West Coast. joined the walkouts initiated by shipyard cultural revival with growing numbers Like most West Coast port cities, Se- and dock workers. of youth learning Native languages and attle has a violent labor history. The first This was a significant chapter in Ameri- participating in the revival of traditional known craft union was organized in 1882, can labor history and for many historians cultural practices including ethnoecologi- the Seattle Typographical Union Local marks the end of anarcho-syndicalist cal knowledge, spiritual practices, and a 202. With the growth of shipping and movements. The aftermath of the Seattle wide range of artisan crafts like canoe- transportation, dockworkers organized a General Strike involved the first “red building and wood-carving. union in 1886, and soon thereafter work- scare” directed at the radical labor orga- In 1775, seafaring Spanish explorers ers in other industries formed unions. nizers of the IWW and similar organiza- explored the faraway and narrow coastal During this early phase of labor history, tions that were targeted with vigilante plains west of the Olympic Mountains, the craft worker unions in Seattle were violence, legal persecutions, and the landing first by the Quinalt River. They composed entirely of skilled white male “Three D’s”: detention, deportation, and did not explore the Seattle area and in- workers. The whites-only unions played disappearance. stead sailed through the Strait of San Juan a role in the Nativist reactions of the time de Fuca and then headed north through that included attacks in Seattle tied to Continuing the tradition of labor mili- the numerous Islands that became known anti-Chinese vigilantism. In 1883, Chinese tancy, Seattle longshoremen and ware- as the San Juan Islands before returning laborers were hired for the construction of house workers went on strike from 9 May south to California. the Montlake Cut to connect Lake Union’s through July 31,1934 during the heat of Portage Bay to Lake Washington’s Union the mass worker sit-down strikes of the The settlement of Seattle by European Bay, effectively joining the interior to the Great Depression. This strike resulted in Americans occurred in 1851 with the ar- east with the Pacific Ocean. In 1885-1886, union recognition for the International rival of the so-called Denny Party. Seattle whites used vigilante violence to expel the Longshoreman’s Association in Seattle. quickly became a leading West Coast Chinese workers from Seattle, Tacoma, timber town. The old-growth forests of Returning to the theme of Seattle’s rac- and other Northwest cities. Douglas Fir and Western Red Cedar, filled Continued on page 24

www.naccs.org 23 (A Brief History Of Seattle...) continued from page 23 the Legislature in 1947 and chaired by Since the 1980s and 90s, Seattle has ist past, on April 21, 1942, all Japanese Rep. Albert Canwell, a freshman Republi- continued to evolve as a contested site Americans were ordered to evacuate can from Spokane. for global trade, union struggles, progres- Seattle. More than 12,000 U.S. citizens of Seattle’s history is also filled with stories sive causes, and leading edge cultural and Japanese ancestry from King County were of Native American activism and re- artistic productions. From the rise and fall held in inland “relocation centers” during sistance. On March 8, 1970 about 100 of Boeing through the rise of a new cyber- World War II. Indian activists attempted to occupy the economy led by Microsoft and Amazon, abandoned facilities at Fort Lawton. They Seattle is a city of contradictions and pos- Seattle’s better side includes a proud sibilities. history of numerous progressive organi- claimed Fort Lawton under a provision in zations like food, plywood manufactur- an 1865 treaty promising reversion of sur- Transnationalism from above and below ing, and healthcare cooperatives. Group plus military lands to the original owners. has met full force on the streets of Seattle Health Cooperative, originally conceived As a result of the protests, the Daybreak as is evidenced by the historic mass pro- as a socialist healthcare network, was Star Center was formed within Discovery tests against the WTO in November and established in 1945 and continues to oper- Park. December of 1999. ate to this day with a board that includes Chicana and Chicano activists have also Over the past twenty years, close to a doctors, nurses, and patients. left their mark on Seattle’s history. On quarter-million Latina/os have settled in This legacy of progressive organizing October 11, 1972, Chicano activists oc- Seattle and Western Washington, add- has often provoked fierce reaction. For cupied the Beacon Hill School in a protest ing to a growing level of cultural diversity example, on January 22, 1949, the Univer- against racial discrimination in educa- in the region that is also home to rapidly sity of Washington fired three professors tion, employment, and government. This growing communities of Asian and Pacific for “suspected Communist ties” after an became the home of El Centro de la Raza, Islander immigrants from China, Japan, investigation by a committee formed by a clearinghouse of services for the local the Philippines, Samoa, Taiwan, Viet Latina/o community. Nam, and other places. n

Films scheduled at NACCS “La mujer mixteca (documentary film).” 30 minutes Lopez, (date and time will be available in the printed program) Jazmin. Whitman College. The films focuses on four Mixtec women from a village in Oaxaca, Mexico. The film highlights the importance of oral history as it connects memory and language “When Will the Punishment End? Stories by Formerly Incar- in order to preserve the Mixtec culture. In the film, four elderly cerated Women.” A documentary of formerly incarcerated Mixtec women share their life stories in Mixteco, an endangered women revealing struggles of reentering society. indigenous language, and recount the past events that shaped their own lives in the small village. Their narrations reveal their “The Garden.” A fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and thoughts and concerns for the preservation of the Mixtec culture. Alameda in South Central Los Angeles started as a form of heal- The interviews with these women also discuss the changes that ing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, Growing their own have affected the village and how it has impacted the Mixtec food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.But now, culture and people. Like many other indigenous cultures in the bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. The Garden Americas, Mixtec culture is rapidly changing. As fluent Mixtec follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban speakers become scarcer, there is an urgency to capture their farm to the polished marble of City Hall. own stories in their own words. Through the stories of these indigenous women, this film presents the language, history, and The Wall: In 2006, Congress passes The Secure Fence Act calling for construction of 700 miles of fence along the US/Mexico border. traditions of the Mixtec culture. They were not prepared for what followed. The Wall, documents “As Long as I Remember: American Veteranos (documentary the impact of constructing a border fence along the Southwest. 54 min. ).” Varela, Laura. San Antonio Filmmakers. Examines From policy makers to citizens of border towns the debate elevates the personal toll and legacy of the Vietnam War on three South as residents respond to having a fence built in their backyard. Texas artists: visual artist Juan Farias, author Michael Rodriguez and poet/performance artist Eduardo Garza. The stories of these “Cemented River (10 min film).” Sotelo, Teresa. Independent Scholar. El Paso and Juarez are separated by the Rio Grande, veterans and their families take us through a journey of their known in Mexico as the Rio Bravo. From a distance it would lives: growing up in the Mexican American community; their be difficult to see where one country ends and the other begins military service in Vietnam; their lives after the war. were it not for the river and the thread of lights along the We Are the Land: Xicana Indigenous Filmmakers: Screening of Films cemented, distorted, once vibrant river. In certain areas the river appears to disappear. This once meandering river has become, • Claudia Mercado & Mujeres de Maiz. “Lady in Motion.” at least in this border region, cemented and enclosed, serving • Claudia Mercado. ‘Ixchel.” its new function of a man manipulated barrier. Because the river • Aurora Guerrero. ‘Pura Lengua.” would “not lie still”, it was deemed necessary to control it with • Maritza Alvarez. ‘Aqui Estamos y No No Vamos.” cement. Now the fortresses of fences, stadium lights, and the • Claudia Mercado. ‘Grandmothers Gathering.” green vehicles of the INS, what we call la migra, are abundant. • Discussant: Montes, Felicia.

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Development Fund $25† $50† $75† Other $______Credit Card: †Visa †MasterCard Student Support $25† $50† $75† Other $______

Immigrant Student Beca $25† $50† $75† Credit Card Number Other $______

Leonor R. Guerrero Scholarship Fund $25† $50† $75† Expiration Date Other $______TOTAL Registration Fees: $ Card Holder Signature (Mandatory for Credit Card payment) Membership Dues:$ Mail form to: Caucus Dues: $ NACCS, P.O.Box 720052, San Jose, CA 95172-0052

Donation: $ Requests for refunds must be submitted in writing postmarked REFUNDS by March 7 2010. A $30.00 service fee will be deducted from all : $ registration fees. No refund requests will be accepted after this TOTAL deadline.. www.naccs.org 25