(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 . “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 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 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 : 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 ‘’ 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. UC Santa Cruz. and Environment: Chicana/o Identities in the Norte”: A study of musical anthems produced Newspapers, Historical Fiction, and Oral Post-Taco-Bell-Chihuahua-Era.” during the 2006 Immigrant Rights Marches.” History: contested Discourses of Politics Yanez, Erlinda. SJSU. “Food Insecurity among Casillas, Dolores Ines. UC Santa Barbara. “Immi- and Identity Urban Chicana/Latina Women in Santa Clara gration Inquiries, Chicana/o Methods.” Nunez, Arturo. UC Berkeley. “A Periodic Nem- County.” Counter-insurgency: New representations of esis: El Clamor Público vs. The Los Angeles Star.” Chicano/Latino Veterans Thornhill, Lisa. UW Seattle. “Strategies for Coun-

www.naccs.org 19 tering Emerging Post-Liberal Discourses: Racial Ecological Imaginaies in Literature and Art Agredano, Felipe. CSU-Northridge/Harvard Literacy in Early 20th Century Spanish Language Acevedo, Martha. UC Merced. “History of the Divinity School. “Maná en el Desierto: Bracero Newspaper, La Vanguardia.” Ecojustice Movement in the Literature of the Conversion and Return in Cristero Mexico.” Murrah-Mandril, Erin. UNM. “The Presence of Quinto Sol Generation (1967-1974) and its Mujeres en Ceremonia y Cambio Social: History in Zamora O’Shea’s El Mesquite.” Reconnection in the 21st Century Movement.” Xicana Indigenous Activism and Organizing Orona-Cordova, Roberta. CSU Northridge. “El Vigil, Ariana. Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln. “Inter- Montes, Felicia. Otis Art School. “M.C’s: Wom- Rito Oral History Project.” secting Narratives of Justice in the Drama of byn’s Ceremony, Art and Activism from the Cherríe Moraga.” Contested Cultures: Music, History, and Local/Global Context.” Medrano, Maria de Lourdes. UC Los Angeles. Social Expectation Sanchez, Irene Monica. Univ of Washington. “Remapping Spatial Environments through Lozano, Jessica. Univ of Washington. “Sexo, “Xicana Testimonio: Balancing Higher Education Performance Language: The Politics of Home, Whisky, y Hyphy Corridos: Music as an Expres- and Community Activism.” Footnotes, and Idiomatic Translations in Sandra sion of the Current Mexican and Chicana/o Expe- Laskin, Jenn. Renaissance High School. “Wat- Cisneros’s Caramelo.” rience in the U.S.” sonville : Indigenous Foundation for Moran, Gloria. Univ of Calfornia, Santa Cruz. Barrera, Magdalena. SJSU. “You Must Be Latin Youth and Community Organizing.” “Homes for the Homies.” Rockers: Astra Heights and the Redefinition of Luna, Jennie. UC Davis. “Danza Mexica Xicana .” Theory/Praxis Challenges in Education Movement y Movimiento.” Robles, Sonia. Michigan State Univ. “Musical Del Castillo, Ramon and Wycoff, Adriann. Met- Studies of Labor and Labor Activism culture in ‘Mexico de afuera’: Music Radio in the ropolitan State College of Denver. “The Role of Coffey, Brianne. Univ of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Mexican Communities of the U.S. Southwest Chicana/o Studies in Advancing Hispanic Serving “Economic Exploitation of the Mexican and U.S. from 1920 to 1940.” Institutions: A pragmatic approach combining Working Class: A Class War Amongst the Poor.” Castellanos, Jazmin and Cabrera, Estela.UW pedagogy y la práctica.” Lopez, Ron. Sonoma State Univ. “History of Lati- Whitewater. “Music as a Reflection of Chicano Barajas, Octavio. Tulane Univ. “ and nos and Latino Activism in Sonoma County: an History.” Higher Education in Aztlan - Nahuas en el Cole- Assessment and Agenda for Research.” gio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco: a thematic Perfiles Americanos: From Racial Forma- Garcia, Jerry. Eastern Washington Univ. “Mexi- study of academic institutional experiences.” tions to Trade Agreements cans, Teamsters, and Growers: Immigration and Briones, Jody. Texas A&M Univ-Kingsville. Guillén-Valdovinos, María. UW Seattle. “Afro- Race in Washington State’s Apple Industry.” “Chicana/o Literature and Border Theory in the Mexicana/o Communities in Guerrero: Challeng- Sarathy, Brinda. Pitzer College. “A Tale of Two Composition Classroom: Developing Racial/Eth- ing and Reconstructing Mestizaje and Mexican Valleys: Immigrant Activism in the Willamette nic Consciousness.” Nationalism.” and Rogue Valleys.” Vega, Sujey. Sam Houston State Univ. “Los Otros Ramirez, Noe. Univ of Texas Pan American. 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. New Mexico State Univ. “Pre- Impact on Chicano Pedagogy: Defining the serving Memory/Promoting Justice: a Collection Chicanas in STEM(Science, Technology, Chicano Studies Curriculum in the Post- on U.S.-Mexico Border Activism.” Engineering & Mathematics) : Obstacles and Neoliberal Age Garcia, Monica. UT El Paso. “La Historia de Ayer Opportunities de Ortego y Gasca, Felipe. Western New Mexico y Hoy De Nuestro : Museo Urbano and the Ruiz, Elsa C. UT San Antonio. Univ. Mexican Revolution.” Niebla, Elvia. Independent Scholar. “The Making Manzanarez, Magdaleno. Western New Mexico Crime Control Strategies in School: Latinos’/ of a Chicana Scientist.” Univ. Chair: Cantu, Norma. UT San Antonio. as’ Perceptions and Criminalization Baeza Ortego, Gilda. Western New Mexico Univ. Portillos, Edwardo. Univ of Colorado, Colorado Environmental Justice: Policymaking, His- Maya, Gloria. Western New Mexico Univ. 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. SJSU. “Passion and Sports in “Two Pentecostal Churches in a Town of Immi- la Frontera: Environmental Justice, Racial Identity the Mexican Colonias of California’s Santa Clara grant Farmworkers in Florida´s New Destina- and Indigenous Knowledge.” Valley.” tions.” Simpson, Andrea. Univ of Richmond. “Environ- Alvarez, Andrew. San Jose Museum of Art. Ramírez, Daniel. Univ of Michigan. “Usos y mental Justice: Gendered, Raced, and Stone- “Cubes of Color.” Costumbres (¿y Mañas?): Religious and Cultural walled.” Change in Oaxaca.”

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. UT Brownsville. “Fuente erary Production.” tions.” historiográfica en El Vampiro del Río Grande de Bebout, Lee. Sam Houston State Univ. “Race and Silva, Graciela. Independent Scholar. “Forthcom- Roberto de la Torre.” Remembrance: The Texas Prison Museum, the ing Anthology: Chican@s y mexican@s norteñ@s: Cárdenas, Cipriano. UT Brownsville. “Periodismo Prisoner Rights Movement, and Ruiz vs. Estelle.” Bi-Borderlands Dialogues on Literary and Cultural Español en la Frontera Texana-Tamaulipeca.” Vasquez, Antonio. MSU. “Racialization of Mexi- Production.” cans in Mainstream Media of Charlotte, North Chicano Curriculum Development: Hope for Carolina, 2005-2006.” Body, Family, and Borderlands: Contextu- alizing Latino(a) Identity through Family Youth Civil Rights History and Poetry Vazquez, Lucia. UC Merced. “More than Traces of Cuentos, Breast Cancer Narratives, and “Un Bautista, Alex. El Centro de . Conciencia in Chicana Literature, Then and Now.” Choque” of Borders Ortega, Estela. 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...) 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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