Latinx Lives, Matters, and Imaginaries: Theorizing Race in the 21St Century

The 3rd Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference

Latinx Lives, Matters, and Imaginaries: Theorizing Race in the 21st Century

John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York April 13-15, 2017

Thursday, April 13, 2017 Opening Event

5:00 p.m. – Introductory Remarks, Richard Pérez & Belinda Linn Rincón

5:15-6:00 p.m. – Keynote Address, Claudia Milian, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Duke University

6:00-7:30 p.m. – Opening Reception

Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 1: 9:00-10:15 a.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 1. Race, Masculinity, and the Coloniality of 2. Re/imagining Race: Borders, Gender, 3. Documenting Crisis: Myths, 4. Affective Burdens: Meloncholia, History in Puerto Rican Literature and Eugenics Immigrants and the Intervention of Shame, and Stereotypes Literature “And always Puerto Ricans”: Urban “La Leyenda Negra: Racial Imaginaries ““When the Anglo Came Into New Archipelagoes and the Coloniality of of Haiti and the US/Mexico Border” “‘Refugees of a World on Fire’: The Turn Mexico as a Foreigner”: Reies López Middle-class, White, Gay Male Desire in Katherine Steelman, University of to the Undocumented in Women of Color Tijerina and the Racial Melancholia of 1970s New York” California, San Diego Feminisms” the Indohispano” Enmanuel Martínez, Rutgers University Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera, Cornell Nicholas M. Duron, New York “Writing While Brown: Ana Castillo, University University “Identity Starts at Home: Developing Sandra Cisneros, and Lucha Corpi” Counterhegemonic Afro-Latino Masculinity Leigh Johnson, Marymount College "Chupacabras: They Myth of the Bad “Embodied Shaming of/in Diaspora: in Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets” Immigrant" Response and (Re)Negotiation of Shame in Regina Marie Mills, University of Texas at “Remapping Eugenics and Mestizaje in Silvia Rodríguez Vega, University of Migdalia Cruz’s Yellow Eyes” Austin River of Angels (2014)” California, Los Angeles L. Bailey McDaniel, Oakland University Christine Fernández, U.S. Military “‘The island was abandoned by history’: Academy, West Point “In the Cut: Latina/o Literature and “Soy Brown and Nerdy: The ChicaNerd Geographies of Race in Victor Hernández Criticism in a Time of Crisis” in Chicana Young Adult (YA) Cruz’s Red Beans” Moderator: Belinda Rincon, John Jay College Literature” Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, University of Cristina Herrera, California State California, Santa Cruz Moderator: University, Fresno

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Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 2: 10:25-11:40 a.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 5. Latinidad and the Undead 6. On the Colorline: The Clashing Racial 7. Politics of Identity in Children’s and 8. Title TBA Paradigms of Latinidad Young Adult Literature Chairs: Ariana Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Chair: Ana Patricia Rodriguez, University of Iowa; Richard T. Chair: Kristie Soares, University of “I Begin Within the Deep Dark Earth: University of Maryland Rodríguez, University of California, Massachusetts Amherst Spirit, Race and Gender in Children’s Riverside Literature” TBA “Nature and the Nature of Quisqueyanas’ Christina Garcia Lopez, University of “…tears and blood and rain: Their Dogs Writing on Turtle Island at the Turn of a San Francisco Came With Them and the Urban Gothic” Century” Annemarie Pérez, California State Isabel Espinal, University of “Canonical Jovenes: Adolescent Time, University Dominguez Hills Massachusetts Amherst the Chicano Bildungsroman, and the Politics of Recovery” “El Morro, Si!” “The Complexity and Vitality of Latinx Noel Zavala, University of Illinois at Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson, Loyal Theater in Chicago” Champaign-Urbana Marymount University Priscilla Page, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Becoming Latinx in Young Adult “Dark Entries: The Latina Muse and the Literature in an Era of Mass Expulsions” Bauhaus School” "Dáltonismo Chick: Colorblindness in Susana S. Martínez, DePaul University, Richard T. Rodríguez, University of Chica Lit" Chicago California, Riverside Aida Roldan Garcia, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Paint it Black: Difference and Divergence in the Work of Myriam “‘Angelito’s Not Black, He’s Cuban’: Gurba” Competing Discourses of Blackness in Ariana Ruiz, Assistant Professor, ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?” Moderator: University of Iowa Kristie Soares, University of Massachusetts Amherst

“The Portrait of the Activist as A Young Man: Evelio Grillo, the Popular Front, and the Freemasonry of the Race” Trent Masiki, Quinsigamond Community College

Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 3: 11:50-1:05 p.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 9. Beyond and Within the Human: 10. Something There is That 11. Symbolic Crisis: Afro-Religious 12. Uncanny Translations, 13. Race, Abjection, and Decolonial Doesn’t Love a Ghost: Racial Visions, Performance, and Or, the Enterprise of Art Imaginaries (Post) Memory, ‘Bare Race’, Transformations “Home as a Territory of African Hauntings, and Patriarchal “Reimagining “Other” Desire: Divine Queer “Transmogrifications in Brown: Exorcism in Latinx Literature “Brujos: At the Intersection of Latinos/as: The Relationality and Racialized Materiality, Humanness, Affect and Race” Technological and Spectral Belonging in Chicana and The Undocumented Body in Chair: Ylce Irizarry, University Thomas Conners, University of Origins of “Othered” Literature” The Real Death Valley” of South Florida Pennsylvania Latinidad” Sofi Chavez, Bryn Mawr Marcos Santiago Gonsalez, Cynthia Martínez, Indiana College CUNY Graduate Center “Off the Radar or Front and “‘Working juju with the word on the University - Bloomington Center: Racial (Post) Memory in world’: Afro-Latinas’ Poetry and "Tomate & Chocolate: There Is Life Latinx Writing” Performance as Transformative “Moctesuma Esparza’s “Love and Salvation Beyond the Human, or How to Karen Christian, California Racial and Identity Counter- Artistic and Business Unites the Body and Soul” Exist in Disgust and Dirt" Polytechnic State University discourse” Enterprises” Julia Torrico, Marymount Elena Igartuburu, University of Maria Esther Alvarez Lopez, Elda María Román, University Massachusetts Amherst “Ecology and Environment in Universidad de Oviedo University of Southern Montero’s in The Palm of California “Unsettling the Category of the Darkness” “Sick of the Symbolic: Trance and Human: Reading the Decolonial Ylce Irizarry, University of South Ritual in Lyn DiIorio Sandin’s "Sounds, Translation, and Imaginations of Gloria Anzaldúa Florida Outside the Bones, Toni Cade Interlingualism in Woman and Sylvia Wynter in the Era of the Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, and Hollering Creek" Anthropocene” “Afro-Dominicanas Write Back: Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Abraham Encinas, Victoria Sánchez, University of Deconstructing the Canonical Widow” University of California, Los California, Santa Cruz Latina/o Gaze” Victoria A. Chevalier, Medgar Angeles Marion Rohrleitner, University Evers College (CUNY) Moderator: of Texas at El Paso Moderator: Moderator:

Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 4: 2:40-3:55 p.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: Room: 14. Goth Girls, Vampires, and Ghosts: 15. Queer Motion and the 16. Love and the Potentiality 17. Textual, Visual, and 18. Feminist Currents in Queer Subjectivity, Rebellion, and Longing for Home of Race Archival Contestations of Latina Literature Freedom in Latinx Literature Blackness and Afro-latinididad “Jotería in Popular Culture: “Love & Justice in Ana in the Puerto Rican and Title TBA Moderator: Carlos Ulises Decena, Queer Identities in Motion” Castillo’s Peel My Love like Dominican U.S. Diasporas Rutgers University Daniel Enrique Pérez, an Onion” “Meditations on the University of Nevada, Reno Susan C. Méndez, “Digital Dominicanidad: Race Shadow: Stereotypes of “Reading Rechy and Zapata in an Era of University of Scranton (on)-line(s)” Latinx Women in Yaqui Homonormativity and Homonationalism” Megan Jeanette Myers, Iowa Delgado Wants to Kick Jorge Estrada, SUNY Oneonta “The Uncertain Harbor of Home: “Decolonial Love against State University Your Ass and Jane the Queering Families in Manuel Racialization and Virgin” “Brown Skin, Goth Drag: The use of Muñoz’s ‘Bring Brang Brung’” Intergenerational Trauma in “Generic Transgressions: The Jessica Flores, California Goth Aesthetics as Rebellion in William Orchard, Queens The Brief and Wondrous Life Chronicles of Arturo Alfonso State University, Fullerton Caribbean Diaspora Novels” College, City University of New of Oscar Wao” Schomburg” Virginia Arreola, Hartwick College York Rafael Vizcaino, Rutgers Vanessa K. Valdés, City University College of New York “Of Stone and Paper: Mapping the Memory of AIDS through the Writing of Moderator: “Afro-Latina Lives Matter: “On the Cusp of Blackness: Gil Cuadros' and Grave Markers in Los Marta Moreno Vega as Junot Díaz, African American Angeles Cemeteries” Transnational Literature, and Black Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., SUNY Scholar/Cultural Worker” Recognition” Oneonta Juanita Heredia, Northern Raj Chetty, St. John’s College Arizona University “Beyond Black & White?: Photography in Loida Martiza Pérez, Julia Alvarez, and Félix Moderator: Morisseau-Leroy” John Ribó, Florida State University

Friday, April 14, 2017 Session 5: 4:05-5:20 p.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 19. Sounding Latinidades: Race, 20. Imagining Black-Brown 21. Redoubling Consciousness: 22. John Jay Student Panel 23. Cultural Citizenship, and In the Solidarity: Forms, Limits, the Body, Invisibility, and Heights Futures Whiteness in Latinx Literature

“Sonic Pan-Ethnicity: Listening in Chair: Randy Ontiveros, “The Double Consciousness of Detail to In the Heights” Maryland University Conquest: Race, Gender and Patricia Herrera, University of Empire in Esmeralda Santiago’s Richmond “Slave Narrative and Testimonio La Conquistadora” in Cristina García’s Monkey Lorna Perez, Buffalo State, “‘Lights Up on Washington Hunting” SUNY Heights’: Lin-Manuela Miranda’s Renee Hudson, University of Hip Hop Musical Mash-Up of the California, San Diego “A Politics of Invisibility: the American Dream” Ethno-Racial and Laboring Nicole Hodges Persley, University “Rodeado de fantasmas”: Death, Immigrant Body” of Kansas Pleasure, and Fragmentation in Kristy L.Ulibarri, East Carolina Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 University “Sounding Authentic: Casting In Maia Gil’Adi, George the Heights beyond Broadway” Washington University “Skin in the Game: Theorizing Brian E. Herrera, Princeton Whiteness in Latina/o/x Studies” University “The Colors of Blackness in the Victoria Bolf, Loyola University Hemispheric Abolitionism of Chicago “Listening to Latinidad: Sonic Henry Highland Garnet and Cultural Citizenship and In the Martin R. Delany” Moderator: Jazmín Delgado, University of Heights” Pennsylvania Marci R. McMahon, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Saturday, April 15, 2017 Session 1: 9:00-10:15 a.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: Room: 24. Subversive Irruptions: the 25. Racial Innovations: Form, 26. Exilic Imaginaries; States of 27. Translating History: the 28. John Jay Student Panel Body, Performance, and Sexuality, and Imaginative Path- Estrangement Elision of Race in the Puerto Activism ologies Rican Imaginary “At Home Abroad: Josefina “Acts of Resistance: Identity as “Arroz poéticas:” Race, Niggli, México de afuera, and “Jesús Colón: A Puerto Rican in Bodily Performance in Legality, and Formal Innovation Expatriate Citizenship” New York Writing about Race in Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a in Javier Alberto Varon, Indiana the 1950’s” Woman” Huerta’s American Copia” University Melissa Coss Aquino, Bronx C. Christina Lam, Borough of Jennifer A. Reímer, Bilkent Community College, CUNY Manhattan Community College, University “Outcast from the Patria: CUNY Lorenzo de Zavala and U.S. “Erasing Race: Translating Out “Reproducing the Unproductive: Democracy” the “Afro” in René Marqués’s La “Girls Behaving Badly: Sexual Excess, Racialized Evelyn Soto, University of Carreta/The Oxcart” Subversion of Hegemonic Sexuality, and the ‘Uncivil Pennsylvania Bret Maney, Gender and Racial Ideals in Other’ in Chicana Narrative” Department Lehman College, Contemporary Hispanic Bernadine Hernández, “Cecile Pineda: The CUNY Caribbean [Diasporic] University of New Mexico Undisciplined Subject” Narratives” John Waldron, University of “The Invisible History of Race at Jennifer E. Irish, Florida State “'Que India!': Racialization and Vermont the Willowbrook State School, University Pathologization in Daisy Staten Island, Hernandez's A Cup of Water Moderator: New York: 1947-1975” “A Home of Our Own: Theory Under My Bed (2015)” Jorge Matos, Hostos and Literary Activism of María J. Durán, University of Community College Gwendolyn Brooks and Sandra North Carolina-Chapel Hill Cisneros” Moderator: Eileen Barrett, California State Moderator: University, East Bay

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Saturday, April 15, 2017 Session 2: 10:25-11:40 a.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: Room: 29. Racial Protagonisms in US 30. Fashioning the Racialized 31. Race in/as the Future: 32. Genre, Race, and the 33. Brown & Queer Aesthetics: Cuban Literary and Subject: Aesthetics, Power, and Gender, Sex, and the Language Aesthetics of Diaspora Animals, Objects, Plants, & Cultural Studies the Politics of Style of Encounter Cyborgs, Part 1 “Gender, Genre and Postrace Chair: Antonio López, George Chair: Eliza Rodriguez y “Using Chicanafuturism for Tolkien Aesthetics in Junot “The Resentimentality of Washington University Gibson, Loyola Marymount Utopian Dreaming: Mestizaje of Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life Latinidad in Richard University Language and Religion in Ernest of Oscar Wao” Rodriguez’s Brown”Joshua “Televising Blackface in 21st Hogan's High Aztech” Angie Bonilla, University of Javier Guzmán, University of Century Miami” “Chicana Fat Aesthetics” Iracema M. Quintero, Texas California, Santa Cruz Colorado-Boulder Albert Laguna, American Julie Avril Minich, The Tech University Studies, Yale University University of Texas at Austin “Desarrollando un(a) estétic@ "Everything Becomes Form": “Digitizing Dominican transgénero en la diáspora” The Racial Quotidian in Paul “Indigeneity, Canals, and the “From Where I Stand: Intimacy Blackness: Explorations of the Stephanie Contreras, Florida Pescador's Crushes” Fiction of a Cuban South and Distance in Ana Menéndez’s Linguistic and Semiotic State University Iván A. Ramos, University of Florida” ‘Why We Left’” Strategies of Dominican Online California Riverside Antonio López, English, George Ralph E. Rodriguez, Brown Content Producers” "Transatlantic Diasporas in Washington University University Saudi Garcia, New York Latinidad" “Amorphous Amalgamation in University Sarah Quesada, University of the Work of Firelei “Archival Disappeared: The “Styling the Subject in Their Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Báez and Wangechi Mutu” Unknowable History of El Club Dogs Came With Them” “(En)Counter Narratives: Black, Leticia Alvarado, Brown Julio Antonio Mella in New Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson, White, and Brown Racialized Moderator: University York, 1932-1940” Loyola Marymount University and Sexualized Rhetoric” Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Christopher Rivera, Essex American Studies, University of County College Maryland

“The Racial Crucible of Genre: Reinaldo Arenas, Rigoberta Menchú and Literary Practice Moderator: “After” Testimonio” Ricardo Ortiz, English, Georgetown University

Saturday, April 15, 2017 Session 3: 11:50-1:05 p.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: Room: 34. Brown & Queer Aesthetics: 35. Temporalities of Race 36. Im/Possibilites of Utopia: 37. Desire for Synchronicity: 38. Writing Letters, Checking Animals, Objects, Plants, & Borders, Visions, and Race, Masculinity, and the Off Boxes: Negotiating Identity Cyborgs, Part 2 “Temporality and Tortillas: The Speculative Fiction Perils of Identity and Confinement from New Great Secular Host” York Chicanidad to LGBTQ Chair: Sandra Ruiz, University Marcela Di Blasi de Quiroga, “Latinx Border Dystopias” “Dominican Masculinity in the Detainees in Arizona of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dartmouth College Marta Caminero-Santangelo, International Sphere: Violence, University of Kansas Sex and the Nation” Chair: Eddy Francisco Alvarez “Organismal Futurisms in “Harboring Spirits: Theories of René Cordero, Maria de Jr., SUNY Oneonta Brown Sound and Queer Time, Relativity, and Race in “Visions of a World Foreclosed: Hostos Community College, Luminosity” Gods Go Begging by Alfredo The Imaginative Possibilities of CUNY “New York and East Coast Sandra Ruiz, University of Vea” Jicotencatl” Chicanxs/ Xican@s, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Richard Perez, John Jay Petrina Crockford, University “Love, Racial Knowing, and Autohistorias and Decolonizing College, CUNY of Southern California the Perils of Brown the Self” “Losing the Pack: Ambivalent Masculinity” Cristina Castelan, SUNY Animality and Queer Brown Aesthetics, Textual “Latin@s in the Slipstream: Adriana Estill, Carleton Oneonta Inhumanism in Justin Torres’ Performances, and Trans- Latin@ Speculative Fiction and College We the Animals” Temporal Latinx Racial the Pursuit of Utopia” “Document(ing) Trauma: Christina A. León, Oregon Formations” Clarissa Goldsmith, Arizona “A ‘Synchronized Struggle’: US Asylum Seekers, Application State University Christofer A. Rodelo, Harvard State University Black and Puerto Rican Processes and Risk” University Fraternities in 1940s New Janine Cardoso, SUNY “Canal Narratology” Moderator: York” Oneonta Roy Pérez, Willamette Moderator: Cristina C. Pérez Jiménez, University Manhattan College “Mariposa Letters: Epistolary Healing and Storytelling of Undocumented Pen-Pals in

Detention Centers in Arizona” Alexandra Bates, SUNY Moderator: Oneonta

Saturday, April 15, 2017 Session 4: 2:40-3:55 p.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 39. Latinx Environmentalisms I: Race, 40. Altermundos: The Other Worlds of 41. Kinship: Latinx-Asian 42. Musical Subversions; Semiotics of Aesthetics, and Literary Histories Latinx Speculative Aesthetics Transculturation Ideology

Chair: Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Chair: Ben Olguín, University of Texas- “Reunification Dreams: 1970s North “The Opens Veins of ‘Latinoamérica’: University of North Texas San Antonio Korea and Speculations of Kinship in Calle 13 and Neoliberalism” Chicano Fiction” Lupe Escobar, New York University “It Happened Through the Grapevine: “Contesting Monstrosity in Horror Joo Ok Kim, University of Kansas Narratives of Race, Migration, and Genres: Chicana Feminist Mappings of “(Re) Constructing Dominican Environment in California Winemaking” de la Peña’s “Refugio” the Vampire Vis- “Chinese in Her Liver, Chinese in Her Latinidad: Intersections Between Priscilla Solis Ybarra, University of à-vis Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Heart”: Transculturation in Cristina Ethnicity, Race, and Hip-Hop” North Texas Hunter Series” García’s Monkey Hunting” Sharina Maillo-Pozo, New Paltz, Luz María Gordillo, Washington State Suzanne Uzzilia, CUNY Graduate SUNY “Greenwashing the White Savior: Cancer University Vancouver Center Clusters, Supercrips, and McFarland “Chicana Feminist Semiotics: Culture USA” “Apocalyptic Affect and Perform-Antics Jamming / Meta-Ideologizing / Genre Julie Avril Minich, University of Texas in Recent Queer Chicanx Literature and Moderator: Subversion” at Austin Performance” Melanie Hernandez, California State Cathryn Merla-Watson, University of University, Fresno “Reflections on the Suburban Texas-Rio Grande Valley Landscapes of Latina/o Poetry” Randy Ontiveros, University of “The Ghostly Matters of Border Horror: Moderator: Maryland (Post)Coloniality, The New Mestiza, and Américo Paredes’s The Shadow” “Race, Water, and Public Art in the Cynthia Saldivar, University of Texas- Urban Mexican/American Countryside: Rio Grande Valley The Rise, Fall, and Restoration of Fresno Fulton Mall Art Program, 1963-2016” “Imagining Chicanx Human Rights Law: Jennifer García-Peacock, University of Chicanx Science Fiction at the end of the Michigan Twentieth Century” Andrew Uzendoski, Lafayette College

Saturday, April 15, 2017 Session 5: 4:05-5:20 p.m. Room: Room: Room: Room: 43. Latinx Environmentalism II: 44. Marketplace of the Visual: Identity 45. Indigeneity: Constructions of Race; 46. Marginal Features; Spacializing Futurity, Race, and Speculative Utopias Representations and the Imagery of Race Aesthetics of Identity Race

Chair: David Vázquez, Associate “A Weapon of My Own”: questioning “The Term Hispanic is Racist: Anti- “Pasas, “Raisins of Hair”: El pelo como Professor of English, University of race, culture, gender, and sexuality Black and Anti-Indigenous marcador racial en Song of the Water Oregon through graphic narrative in Cristy C. Resistance in Toronto, Canada” Saints de Nelly Rosario” Road’s Spit and Passion” Andrea Vásquez Jiménez, University of Jhoanna Méndez, Florida State “Futurity in Memory: Horizons and the Carla Suárez Vega, University of Toronto University Cultural Politics of Lunar Braceros: Massachusetts Amherst 2125-2148” “Unsettling Racial Geographies across “Reinscribing the Liminal Other” Christopher Perreira, University of “Unbinding Latinidad: Latinx Book the Americas & the Atlantic: Diane M. Brown, University of the Kansas Covers in the Contemporary Literary Indigenismo, Anticolonial Critique and West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Marketplace” the Aesthetics of Deception” “Speculative Hope: Countering Isabel Duarte-Gray, Harvard University Jennifer Flores Sternad Ponce de “Ana Mendieta and the Brown Dystopian Environmental Futures in León, University of Pennsylvania Spatialization of Blackness” Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer and Lucas de Lima, University of Alejandro Morales’s The Rag Doll Moderator: ‘No soy latina’: The Construction of Pennsylvania Plagues” Diasporic Maya Identity in the United

David J. Vázquez, University of Oregon States” Moderator: Stephanie Luna Padilla, University of “Reading Latin@ SF through the Lens of California, Santa Cruz Climate Change and El Buen Vivir” Gabriela Nuñez, California State Moderator: University, Fullerton

“Utopic Designs for a Dystopic Desert: Interrrupting Environmental Warfare through the Art of the Transborder Immigrant Tool and Humanitarian Water Caches” Shane Hall, University of Oregon

Special Literature Roundtable Saturday April 15th, 2017: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

Room: TBA

Introduction by Richard Perez, John Jay College

Dr. Jill Toliver Richardson, Associate Professor of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY and author of The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary

American Literature and Culture (2016, Springer).

Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, author of When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio; Women Warriors of Afro-Latina Diaspora; and The Altar of My

Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria.

Miriam Jiménez Román, moderator, Executive Director Afro-Latin@ Forum, co-editor The Afro-Latina/o Reader: History and Culture of the United States.

Closing Reception

8:00 – 9:00 p.m. Jay Walk