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nown as the capital of Texas Kand“The Live Music Capital of The World,” Austin is home to a 2008 Frederick A. Cervantes population of about 700,000 and Recipients Announced! approximately 31% of the popula - Alvaro Huerta, Graduate, and Joaquín Castañeda, tion is made up of Chicanos, Mexi - Undergraduate canos and/or Latinos. It is the fourth e are pleased announce the recipients of the Cer - largest city in Texas, and the six - Wvantes Premio. They are two excellent scholars, com - teenth largest in the United States, mitted to the work and development of Chicana/o Studies. manitas as well as the third fastest growing It gives us great pleasure to know that these two recipients will continue the work of crafting Chicana and Chicano large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006. The city is the cultural and Studies. We’d like to thank the committee, Susan Green economic center of the Austin- Round Rock metropolitan area with a (Chair), Isidiro Ortiz, and Horacio N. Roque Ramirez for population of more than 1.5 million people. Well known as a center for reading the submissions. We received six graduate and two liberal politics in a generally conservative state, Austin is one of a kind. undergraduate submissions. The committee was very pleased with the quality of the papers and commends the Before the arrival of settlers from the United States, the area students for their work. We encourage faculty and students that later became Austin was inhabited by a variety of to keep this honor in mind for next year. Felicidades to nomadic Native American tribes, including the Tonkawa tribe, Alvaro and Joaquín! Please join us for their presentation at the Comanchies, and the Lipan Apaches, that camped and the Student Plenary on Friday, March 21. hunted along the creeks, including what is now known as Bar - ton Springs. Known as the city of Waterloo when it was first established, Austin, by the early 1840’s, was home to a popula - Joaquín Castañeda, B.A. student tion of about 850 people. Today, Austin is known as much for California State University, Sacramento Undergraduate Recipient its cultural life as its high-tech innovations. Joaquín Castañeda was born and Residents of Austin are known as“Austinites,” and include a raised in La Puente, east of Los mix of university professors, students, politicians, lobbyists, Angeles, California. He is cur - musicians, state employees, high-tech workers, and white-col - rently a senior majoring in Gov - lar workers. The city is home to enough large sites of major ernment and Chicano-Latino technology corporations, that it has even earned the nickname Studies at the California State “Silicon Hills.” Besides its bustling technology corporations, University, Sacramento with Austin is also well known for its educational institutions. plans on entering a Doctoral Given the title of America’s #1 College Town by the Travel program in the area of Sociology Channel, Austin is home to the University of Texas at Austin, or Education Policy in the fall of 2009. His commitment to one of the largest universities in the country and the flagship research and community praxis has been shaped and fueled institution of the University of Texas System- the largest state by his passion to remedy the very same inequities he and his system of higher education in Texas. Other institutions of Continued on page 2 m Continued on page 6 m VISIT THE NACCS WEBSITE AT WWW.NACCS.ORG Â NACCS ELECTION OUTCOME Editor: Mari Castañeda [email protected] New members to the Board Assistant Editor Kathryn Blackmer Reyes Julia Curry Rodriguez
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Noticias de NACCS Volume 37, Number 1, Pre Conference Nohemy Solorozano- Cynthia Duarte, Dionne Espinosa, NACCS Business Office Thompson, Chair-Elect Secretary AtLarge Rep Attn: Noticias de NACCS/ Newsletter Editor Congratulations to the newly elected members of the board. P.O. Box 720052 At the Annual meeting we say good-bye to Aida Hurtado San Jose, CA 95172-0052 (2005-2008) and Susan Green (2006-2008) and welcome three email: [email protected] members. We thank our candidates for having accepted lead - ership nominations, particularly Beto Calderon and Jose Noticias de NACCS is the official newsletter of the Moreno. We hope that they continue to participate in the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. organization at all levels. We also wish to thank all of our Published four times yearly, with a circulation of 800, Noticias de NACCS includes current comments on members that took the time to exercise their civic responsibili - Chicana and Chicano Studies, news of Chicana and ties to NACCS. This is our seventh member elected Board Chicano Scholars, Association activities and more. Noticias since the introduction of new the governance structure. With de NACCS is sent to all NACCS members, outside 42% of the membership participating this is our highest par - subscribers, and selected non-subscribers . ticipation to date. Let’s make it 100% participation in 2009! m (NACCS XXXV in Austin ¡Adelante!) continued from page 1 Nohemy Solorozano-Thompson , Chair-Elect higher learning include Austin Community College, Concor - Cynthia Duarte , Secretary (2010) dia University, Huston-Tillotson University, St. Edward’s Uni - Dionne Espinosa , AtLarge Rep (2010) versity, The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, The Acton School of Business, Austin Presbyterian Theological Results: Seminary, and a branch of LeTorneau University. Eligible members to vote: 235; Total votes received: 99. Aside from the technological and educational aspects, Austin Chair-Elect: has a lot of diversity to its local culture. Austinites take pride Solorzano-Thompson: 54; Calderon: 45 in eccentricities and celebrate differences and being different (in lifestyle, beliefs, character, etc.)“Keep Austin Weird” has Secretary: become a local motto in recent years, featured on innumer - Duarte: 92; Write in ( Luis Guerra ): 2 able bumper stickers and t-shirts. This motto has not only been promoting Austin’s eccentricity and diversity, but is also At Large Representative: meant to bolster support of local and independent businesses. Espinosa: 66; Moreno: 33 The music scene is another trademark of Austin. As Austin’s official slogan is“The Live Music Capital of The World,” the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department city has a vibrant live music scene and more music venues per capita that any other U.S. city. Austin’s music revolves around Chairs, Advisors and Mentors! the many nightclubs on 6th street and annual film/ multime - Celebrate your Graduates with a NACCS lapel dia festival known as South by Southwest. The city also has a pin, $6.00 each or $5.00 for 10 or more (NACCS burgeoning circle of live performance theatre venues. We decal included). Contact our Executive Director, hope you enjoy your visit to Austin! Dr. Julia Curry, if you or department would like to purchase. The label pin features our logo and — source Wikipidia.com I name, antique bronze, and size of a U.S. Quarter.
2 Pre Conference  FROM THE CHAIR One thousand to Austin! ¡Ni uno menos! Josie Mendez-Negrete, NACCS Chair Short of any chubascos—surprisingly quick showers that could One thousand to Austin and no fewer drown and dampen your spirits but for a mere fifteen min - is the mantra that has driven our call utes—Austin is a magical space for those who love the out - for the March 19 – 22, 2008, NACCS doors, music, and ambling about on 6th Street and other Conference. With the most submis - cultural spots. As you arrive to the capital of Texas, Las Manitas sions ever, this year NACCS contin - and La Peña are but some of the artistic possibilities that await ues to carve the professional and you. collegial spaces that foster creative I look forward to seeing your smiling and satisfied faces, as and meaningful interactions among you allow yourselves time to embrace the possibilities.You are Chicana/o scholars. We welcome you all as the heart and spirit NACCS, and your presence in Austin adds to the historical of our Chicana/Chicano annual event, which promises to be a legacy that we leave behind. See y’all there! I lively and inspiring time for all at the banks of Barton Springs.
 FROM THE CHAIR-ELECT 2008 Conference Nears Mari Castañeda, Chair-Elect not been enforced, but with the increasing number of submis - The Program Review Committee for sions and members in our organization, I feel it's imperative the 2008 conference did an excellent that we recommit ourselves to the presentation policy. I job in the proposal review process. I believe this will greatly strengthen the intellectual engagement am thankful to the readers for their of our conferences as well as include the largest number of time and effort into the process. Just people possible within the various sessions. If members have like in pervious years, I am pleased to any thoughts on this policy, please let me know. give you a diverse and packed pro - Lastly, I have also been working hard to develop an opening gram of presentations, workshops and plenary that will bring together a group of scholars who are roundtables. NACCS continues to producing exciting and cutting edge work that also speaks to grow and selection and planning of submissions remains a the theme. As a scholar that produces research at the intersec - challenge. But I thank all individuals who submitted a propos - tion of media and Chicana/Latina studies, I wanted the confer - al for this conference. I hope that each of continue to see this ence theme (and consequently, the program as a whole) to conference as a space to develop and explore new and exciting reflect these intersections in a multitude of areas, not just tra - ideas and build your community activism. I encourage those ditional media spaces, but cultural production from a wide whose proposals were not accepted this year to please submit array of sites. I believe we've achieved that goal, and I look the following year; and of course, would love to see you in forward to your participation in this important conversation! I Austin this March.
Although I am very pleased with the diversity and quality of the program, and I hope that future conferences also produce a well-rounded pool of submissions, I am concerned about the multiple times in which members appear on panels. Like many of you, I am deeply committed to NACCS and enjoy participating on panels that address my various interests. Unfortunately, this limits the number of people who can par - ticipate and help diversify our conference. NACCS has a poli - cy that each member can present on one panel, workshop, or roundtable and be a respondent on another. This policy has
www.naccs.org 3 LMRI ends listserv program Arlene Carrasco, At-Large Representative standing that it would explore different measures to provide LMRI (Language Minority Research Institute) of the Universi - communications to all of the groups. ty of California, Santa Barbara has been hosting our listservs Shortly after the January announcement the Board moved to a for the last 10 years. In January 2008, NACCS received notice "Google Group" listserv to continue business and familiarize that LMRI will end its listserv support beginning June 2008. itself with a new system. But we want to hear from the mem - Our relationship with LMRI started with our affiliation with bership regarding any ideas on how NACCS should proceed CLNet out of UC Los Angeles. CLNet had hosted our first in providing communication tools. The Board has not made website. When we started our listservs we began with two, any decision regarding transitioning these listservs but won - then moved to ten, and currently more than 30 lists are being der if we should continue to oversee all these lists or if there hosted which include listservs for the Focos, Research Divi - might be other methods of allowing for each group to have sions, Caucuses, and the Board. and host its own listserv. For instance, NACCS could provide This announcement came on the heels of a discussion by the the email addresses of members to the Rep/Chair and allow Board during the Midyear meeting in Austin, October 2007. for its own organization. Please email the three At-Large Rep - The Board was concern about the uneven use of the listservs resentatives (Susan Green, Margaret Villanueva, and Arlene Carrasco) so that we can take your suggestions to the Board. by the various groups. Moreover, concerns regarding the You can email us at [email protected] . labor involved at updating and maintaining the lists had reached a state of urgency. The Board left with the under - Orientation for NACCS Leaders By Arlene Carrasco, At-large Representative resolution process so to prepare you with the activities you will In an effort to build and disseminate information between the need to cover in your meetings. Although Foco/Caucus/Division Board and the organization’s Foco Representative and Cau - chairs are no longer on the board because of the new structure, cus/Division Chairs, the Board has scheduled an orientation for your voice is still important since it works as the primary contact all new and current representatives/chairs as well as the newly to the At-large Reps and to the Board. We want everyone to nominated officers. This orientation will take place on Wednes - attend and bring with them potential leaders that may want to day, March 19, 2008, from 3-5:15 pm at the Hyatt Regency, room serve in the same capacity in the near future. TBA. We invite you to join us so that we can continue our dialog We look forward to meeting with all of you! Please don’t hesitate with the transition of the new structure and to also provide you to contact the At-Large Reps (Susan, Arlene, and Margaret) if you with expectations and responsibilities of the position you hold. have any questions or concerns – [email protected] I We will also cover Foco/Caucus/Division elections and the new Board moves to one Business meeting at Annual
As you read in the last newsletter, Business Meeting #2 has Prior to 1999, any one attending our business meetings been removed from the schedule. This decision is intended regardless of their membership status were able to vote on to give all members the ability to participate in Association resolutions. At the time the Association did not have a prop - business regardless of whether they attend the annual con - er count of its membership. By 1999, the development of a ference and business meeting. member database and active membership renewals and recruitment, NACCS for the first time was able to identify History: who were current members. During the San Antonio meet - Prior to 1997, NACCS only had one business meeting that ings in 1999, the member voting card was introduced. This included Coordinating Committee (sic) introductions, Foco action was very successful and drew conference participants, and Caucus reports, Coordinator and Treasurer reports, and who were members, to participate in the business meeting. resolutions. In 1996, during the CC Midyear meeting in In 2003, for the first time NACCS moved to online voting Sacramento, the CC decided to separate the activities into for its leadership. Prior to 2002, the Coordinator, Treasure two. continued on page 5 m
4 Pre Conference  GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING RESOLUTIONS AT NACCS
The following are the guidelines for submitting resolutions at The Foco/Caucus/Division must take responsibility for wording the NACCS national conference. All resolutions must be sub - the resolution in such a manner that it is actually a resolution mitted for consideration during the general business meeting and not a call for support on an issue relevant to only one and need to emerge from and be approved by the Focos, Cau - region. Thus, resolutions must be relevant to all the members cuses, and Divisions. The Foco/Caucus/Division meetings are of NACCS. In addition, resolutions need to be edited in order scheduled before the business meeting and will be the main to make sense, and must provide names of persons who are avenue for processing Foco/Caucus/Division resolutions. expected to act on behalf of NACCS and their professional or PLEASE NOTE: No resolutions from the floor will be enter - community affiliation. tained during the business meeting. Resolutions that do not meet the criteria will not be consid - Foco Representatives and Caucus/Division Chairs are respon - ered. Once the resolutions are approved by the Board, the sible for typing and submitting Foco/Caucus/Division NACCS Secretary will compile, duplicate, and distribute the approved resolutions to the NACCS Secretary by Friday, Foco/Caucus/Division resolutions at the NACCS general busi - March 21 at 9:00 p.m. via email or in person at the NACCS ness meeting. Registration desk area in an electronic format (jump drive - USB or CD). Emailed resolutions can be sent to Resolu - A consent agenda format (all resolutions are approved automati - [email protected] cally unless a member requests that a specific resolution be removed for discussion and online voting) will be followed dur - All resolutions submitted must conform to the following rules: ing the business meeting. Resolutions that are pulled from the consent agenda or do not make the consent agenda will be b Resolutions must identify what Foco/Caucus/Division is putting the resolution forth; voted on by the membership within two months of the confer - ence online. Members will have an opportunity to discuss the Resolutions must provide names of contact person(s) with b resolutions online. Details of this discussion will be forthcoming. phone numbers in case further clarification is necessary. b 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/Caucuses/Divisions to produce the resolutions will be announced and made available at the b The resolution must be worded in such a way that the implementation of such resolution be realistic in terms of national conference site. Any questions should be directed to funding requirements and logistics involved. the Chair of NACCS or Secretary. I
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and Secretary were selected by the CC (from the CC body) ing only the second business meeting are also not attending at the end of the conference. The membership did not know the conference, thus not all members were participating in who the current leadership was until the next newsletter. In the Association's business even if they wanted too. Member 2001, the membership voted on a CC resolution to change participation in the business of the organization is especially the CC structure to include a Chair-Elect and by 2002, the important for resolutions and decisions that affect the struc - first member based election of NACCS leaders would occur. ture, finances or by-laws of NACCS. The Chair-Elect would not be selected internally by the CC but rather open and invited nominations of NACCS mem - With the development and reliability of electronic formats bers would be reviewed by the Nominations Committee. like blogs and along with our current work to develop The 2002 Chair-Elect was a mail ballot. In 2003 elections membership participation, the NACCS leadership felt that were moved online for member only voting. now was a good time to move another membership activity online. Given our transition to voting for our leadership online allows us to use the same methods to vote on mem - Current: bers resolutions. Details of how resolutions and voting will As NACCS has grown and also continued to develop better follow. We aspire to expanding membership participation methods to recruit and renew members, along with devel - and voice as our organization also changes with the emerg - oping our conference registration records, our records have ing digital age. I been showing that many of our members were not attend -
www.naccs.org 5 m (2008 Frederick A. Cervantes Recipients Announced!) continued from page 1 community has and continues to face. His experience of an for the recruitment of more low-income, Raza students into urban upbringing and the environment of inequities has motivat - higher education as a means of promoting social and eco - ed his deep desire to promote social justice and social change. nomic parity in this country. During this period, he also Joaquin refuses to view the struggles he has encountered thus far engaged in direct action against racist and anti-immigrant as forms of victimization, but rather as opportunities for develop - university policies, such as the administration’s attempt to cut ing a critical perspective and a deeper fundamental understand - financial aid to undocumented immigrants. After conducting ing of urban education, politics, and culture. a weeklong hunger strike that he helped organize (but did not participate), they successfully pressured the university to He states he is someone who never formally graduated from change its policy. While an activist, Alvaro received his B.A. in High School and spent years taking remedial courses to History and an M.A. in Urban Planning both at UCLA. reach college level material. Upon reflection, Joaquin is grateful for his Chicana/o Studies courses for they have pro - Since leaving UCLA, Alvaro continued his community orga - vided him with the space and discourse to make links nizing activities, working primarily with Mexican immigrants between the material conditions of his community and in Los Angeles and other disenfranchised low-income com - scholarship. Mechistas, profesores, comunidad, and his munities throughout the state, including issues of police bru - familia have been instrumental in the process and continue tality, environmental justice, education and other pertinent to be an insatiable source of inspiration, ganas, and the issues impacting working-class communities. greater sense of purpose in his academic endeavors. He is Two campaigns represent his most successful organizing thankful for their unconditional support! efforts outside of the university: (1) co-founding the first A leader in MEChA de CSUS, he serves as chair for both Pub - organization of immigrant gardeners in this country to rep - lic Relations and the Political Committee. In 2006, he help orga - resent the interest of this subpopulation, such as defeating a nize a successful action in the advocacy of student space at draconian, leaf-blower law; (2) as the lead organizer for a CSUS by organizing students, faculty and staff to demand that statewide non-profit group, successfully leading an environ - a permanent Director for the Multicultural Center be made a mental justice campaign to defeat a major power plant in priority of the University. He was not going to originally submit Southeast Los Angeles. his paper due to the conflict of schedules of MEChA National As a founding member and Director of Organizing for the 2008 and NACCS Annual, but was highly encouraged by a fac - Association of Latin American Gardeners of Los Angeles ulty mentor to submit his paper. Joaquin feels very honored by (ALAGLA) (1996 – 1999), Alvaro and fellow organizers, this recognition and as his mother would say "le dio un pata - played a key role in preventing the City of Los Angeles from tus." His paper addresses gentrification and displacement of a implementing a draconian law aimed at banning leaf blow - Raza neighbor in Sacramento. His research was funded and ers in residential areas while charging honest, hard-working supported by the campus McNair program. gardeners with a misdemeanor, fining them $1,000 and sending them to jail for up to 6 months. Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D. student University of California, Berkeley As a Lead Organizer for Communities for a Better Environ - Graduate Recipient ment (CBE) (1999 – 2001), Alvaro led the organizational and Raised in East Lost Angeles' turbu - media efforts to prevent the building of a 550-megawatt lent Ramona Gardens housing power plant in South Gate, California. Since South Gate is a project, Alvaro Huerta is a writer, predominantly low-income, Latina/o community with social activist and doctoral student numerous sources of pollution, the proposal of locating at UC Berkeley. As the son of another major of pollution in this overly contaminated Mexican immigrant parents, he neighborhood represented a case of environmental racism. has been a community (& univer - Upon receiving his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Alvaro plans to sity) activist for over two decades pursue a career in academia while maintaining his social and, for the past four years, activism. As a professor at a major university, such as UCLA focused on his graduate studies or UC Berkeley, he will have more opportunities to develop, and writings. Starting in 1985, as a student activist, he dedi - refine and promote his theories (and social practices) of cated his life to improving the lives of marginalized, working- social justice through research, teaching and publications, to class communities in this country. Being one of the few complement on-going activism. He plans to continue his Chicano students at UCLA during the mid-1980s, Alvaro, work as a scholar activist serving los de abajo / those on the along with his wife, Antonia, and fellow activists, advocated bottom.
6 Pre Conference  CONFERENCE INFORMATION Pre Registrants/Onsite Registration Pick up of conference materials and onsite registration begins at 2:00 p.m. on March 19th. Later that evening we begin with a Welcome Reception. Thursday morning, March 20, presentations will begin. Last conference activity will be Saturday, March 22, closing with the dance. Schedule
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibits 9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Session Five 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon Plenary II: Student Plenary 3:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Officers, Reps and Chairs Orientation Meeting 12 noon – 2:00 p.m. Awards Luncheon 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. NACCS for Beginners 2:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session Six 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Welcome Reception 3:40 p.m. – 5: 00 p.m. Session Seven 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Caucus Strategy Meetings 5:10 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. Caucus Meetings 6:20 p.m. – 7:20 p.m. Division Meetings Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Reception 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration 9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Cultural Night/Open Mic 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Caucus Meetings 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibits Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Session One 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration 10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Welcome 7:00 a.m. – 7:55 a.m. Foco Meetings 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Plenary I: NACCS Plenary 8:00 a.m. – 8:55 a.m. Caucus Meetings (all) 12:40 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Session Two 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Exhibits 2:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session Three 9:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Session Eight 3:40 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Session Four 10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Plenary III: Chicana Plenary 5:10 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. Foco Meetings 12:20 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Session Nine 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Receptions 1:50 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Session Ten 3:20 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. Session Eleven Friday, March 21, 2008 4:50 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Business Meeting 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration 6:45 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Closing Reception 8:00 a.m. – 8:55 a.m. Division Meetings 9:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. Dance
Exhibitors (as of 2/15) Hotel Arte Publico Press Hyatt Regency, Austin Ethnic Studies Library, UC Berkeley 208 Barton Springs, University of Texas Press Austin, Texas, USA 78704 Chicano Studies Research Center, UC Los Angeles Tel: +1 512 477 1234 Fax: +1 512 480 2069 University of Arizona Press http://austin.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp Pearson Education Texas State University, San Marcos Conference Dates: For the duration of all conference events - University of Texas, San Antonio Graduate Studies arrival March 19, 2008; depart (morning) March 23, 2008. The Crafts by Amistad hotel will allow you to arrive beginning March 18th with the Resistencia Book Store, Austin, TX conference rate. For additional dates, please contact the hotel. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Continued on page 8 m www.naccs.org 7 m (NACCS Midyear Meeting Minutes...) continued from page
Friday Check the conference program for more scheduled activities. Plenary II: Student Plenary
Frederick A. Cervantes Student Premio Plenary LEONOR R. GUERRERO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Friday, 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon 2008 – 2009 Applicant Information & Question Deadline: May 4, 2008 Alvaro Huerta, University of California, Berkeley.“‘Mow, Blow and Go’: A Case Study of Mexican Immigrant Gardeners in This $1000 scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year. Schol - Los Angeles.” Graduate Recipient. arships will be disbursed in two installments after proof of atten - dance is established. The first installment will be given in the fall Joaquín Castañeda. California State University, Sacramento. (approximately end of September) and the other in the spring (approximately the end of January). Scholarship will include a “The Oak Park Redevelopment Plan Housing Policy Implica - mentoring component. The scholarship seeks students who are tions for a Community Undergoing Early Stage Gentrification.” attending a community college. Go to www.naccs.org for details. Undergraduate Recipient. Previous Recipients of the Leonor R. Guerrero Scholarship Awards Luncheon 2006-2007: Patricia Gomes, Los Angeles City College Join us as we celebrate our 2008 NACCS Scholars, Norma E. 2007-2008: Dora Marin, South Texas College; and Christopher Cantu and Kevin R. Johnson, our Frederick A. Cervantes Student Alonso, Cabrillo College
8 Pre Conference Preliminary Program – A Selected Listing Thursday, March 20, 2008 Re-presenting Chicana/o Families Intersections of Art and Literature: into the 21st Century Imagery and Gender in Chicano Cultural Production through the Dancing Across Borders 1: Escobar, Guadalupe. University of Long Twentieth Century Contested Identities California, Los Angeles.“Amor Prohibido: Interracial Marriage in Jovita Gonzalez's Varon, Alberto. University of Texas, Austin. Huerta, Elisa. University of California, Davis. Caballero .” “Competing Masculinities in Americo “Embodied Mexicanidades: Practices and Paredes’ George Washington Gomez and Jovita Performances of Indigneity.” Guzmán, Georgina. University of California, Los Angeles.“Turning Absence into Gonzalez’s Caballero .” Chávez, Xochitl. University of California, Activism: Missing Migrant-Laborer Men Nogar, Anna M.. University of Texas, Austin. Santa Cruz.“Challenging Gender and Activist Women’s Work in Reyna Boundaries: La Feria de Enero.” “Folklore as Identity: the Lady in Blue Grande’s Across a Hundred Mountains and Rebuts the Texas Modern.” Ceseña, Maria Teresa. University of Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Del Bosque, Paul. University of Texas, California, San Diego.“Creating Agency and Jesus .” Identity in Danza Azteca.” Austin.“The Emergence of Cultural Imagery Cutler, John Alba. University of California, in Daniel Venegas' Don Chipote .” Chair: Nájera-Ramirez, Olga. University of Los Angeles.“Acting Out: Chicano California, Santa Cruz. Masculinities in Daniel Chacón’s And the Reinventions: Chicana History from Research and Cultural Politics: Shadows Took Him .” the Middle Ages Designing and Reframing Chicana/o Chair: Cotera, Maria. University of Castañeda, Antonia I. St. Mary's University. Community-based Research to Michigan. “Las Violencias desde Simancas a Alta Community Driven Research based California.” Lucha Obrera: Aspects of the on Environmental Justice and González, Deena J. Loyola Marymount Community Organizing Principles. Transnational Political Recomposition University.“Obsessions of Chicana of the Mexican -Origin Working Class, Historians: from Malinche to Lupe.” Silva, Lauro. South Valley Partners for 1994-2007 Environmental Justice. Pérez, Emma M. University of Colorado, Boulder.“Blood Memories of the Alamo: Aceves, Irma. SouthValley Partners for Espinoza, Damarys. University of Writing through Violence.” Environmental Justice. Washington.“A Chicana Feminist Rethinking of the Deskilling of Mexican Chair: Heidenreich, Linda. Washington Sanchez, Lucy. SouthValley Partners for Labor.” State University. Environmental Justice. García, Raul. University of Washington. Dimas, Jacobo. SouthValley Partners for The Becas para Aztlan Program: Environmental Justice. “Help Wanted: Farming, Migration, and Labor in San Luis, Colorado.” Politics, Leadership and Personal Dominguez, Julio. SouthValley Partners for Experiences Environmental Justice. Chair: Peña, Devon. University of Washington.“The Political Recomposition of De Anda, Roberto and Guerra, Carlos. Latino Literature and the the Transnational Mexican-Origin Working Portland State University.“Leadership in the Disarticulation of (Trans) Nationalism Class since NAFTA.” Becas para Aztlan Program (BPA).” Orona, Benito. Independent Scholar. Vigil, Ariana. Cornell University.“Latino The Department of Chicana/o “Political Developments Leading to the Cultural Production and the Sandinista Studies in the 21st Century: Establishment of the BPA.” Revolution.” Studying Representation, Doing Rincón, Belinda. Cornell University.“Loving Trujillo, Armando. University of Texas, San Pancho Villa: Revolutionary Iconography in Community Outreach, and Defining Antonio.“Early Experiences in the Work of Josefina Niggli.” Ethical Research Implementing the BPA.” Nuñez, Maria Lorena. Stanford University. Torres, Edén. University of Minnesota. Pitman-Garcia, Dolores. Colorado State “In Transit: the Psychological/Physical Trek “Learning to Represent.” University.“The Becaria Experience: for (Home) place in Manuel Muñoz's Reflections and Lessons Learned.” Sass Zaragoza, Lisa. University of Zigzagger .” Romero, Eric. New Mexico Highlands Minnesota.“Learning to Organize.” García, Armando. Cornell University. University.“Multicultural/International “Colonial Palimpsests and Failed Creel Falcón, Kandace. University of Education, the Patriot Act and Strategies for Revolutions in MeXicana Performance.” Minnesota.“Learning to Research.” Binational Collaboration.” www.naccs.org 9 Continuing the Development of New Movimiento Histories: the La Virgen de Guadalupe’s Religious Chicana/Latina Womanist Pedagogies: Immigration Debate, MEChA, Celebrations.” Theory, Methodology, and Everyday Community Identity Politics and wolbert pérez, alejandro. University of California Berkeley.“‘Maria y Revolución, Mujeres on the Ground the Brown Berets and the Chicano Movement eso es lo que Ocupa mi Corazón’: Love and Liberation in the Prison Writings of Ricardo Elenes, C. Alejandra. Arizona State Patiño Jr., Jimmy. University of California, Flores Magón.” University - West Campus.“Chicana San Diego.“‘The Vietnam of the Southwest’: Chair: Hernández Gutierrez, Alexandro D. Feminist Critical Mestizaje, Epistemologies, Herman Baca and the Chicano Movement University of California Los Angeles. and Pedagogies.” Debate on Immigration in the California Borderlands.” Cruz, Cindy. Cornell University.“Notes on Unrest: Founding of the Cal State Bodies, Pedagogies, and Street Licon, Gustavo. University of Southern Northridge Chicana/o Studies Ethnography.” California.“Sexo en Aztlan: Notions of Department Gender and Sexuality within MEChA.” Moreno, Melissa. University of Utah.“Bella’s Valdivia-Marquez, Lorena. University of Duran, Miguel. California State University, Pedagogy of‘Gente Unida’: Chicana California, Los Angeles.“Unraveling Northridge. Cultural Production of Citizenship in the Notions of Community during the Chicano Acuña, Rudy. California State University, California Borderlands.” Movement in Sacraztlan.” Northridge. Carrillo, Rosario. University of Arizona, Alvarez, Milo M. University of California, Garcia, Jorge. California State University, Tucson.“Mrs. Villa’s Womanist Pedagogy: the Los Angeles.“Aztlan Afuera: the Brown Northridge. Embracing Spirit of Avivar.” Berets of the Urban Midwest and the Anti- Vietnam War Movement.” Pardo, Mary. California State University, Discussant: Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen. Northridge. Chair and Discussant: Gomez-Quinones, Trent University. Juan. University of California, Los Angeles. Chair: Rodriguez, David. California State University, Northridge. The Laughter Insurgency: Chicana/o Irreverent Apparitions: Charismatic Our History, Ourselves: What Satire and Parody in the Interpretations of Alma Lopez's Faculty and Librarians Should Know Movimiento “Our Lady” About Actively Telling Our Own Herrera, Raul. Puro Pedo Media. Gaspar de Alba, Alicia. University of Story Through Our Own Archives California, Los Angeles. Prendez, Jake. Puro Pedo Magazine. Corral, Norma. University of California, Los Lopez, Alma. Artist. Angeles.“Introduction: What We Can Learn Serna, Elias. Chicano Secret Service. Serna, Cristina. University of California, from the Accomplishments ofYolanda Retter Vargas.” Mosqueda, Cindy. Loteriachicana.net. Santa Barbara. Calvo, Luz. California State University, East Durán, Karin and Alaniz,Yolanda. California de Unamuno, Ralph. Bay. State University, Northridge.“How to Successfully Solicit Archives.” Chicana Young Adult and Children’s Nunn, Tey Marianna. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Albuquerque, NM. Kelleher, Christian. University of Texas, Literature: Practical and Austin.“Processing Archives and Dealing Pedagogical Applications Chair: Castañeda, Antonia. St. Mary's with Issues such as Confidentiality and University. Trujillo, Patricia. University of Texas, Copyright.” San Antonio. Xican@/Mexican@ Poetics of Gutiérrez, Margo. University of Texas, Resistance and Palabras de Amor: Austin.“Faculty Collections at UT Austin.” McMahon, Marci. Scripps College. Across Borderlands, Through Chair: Rivera, Diana. Michigan State Sanchez, Patricia. University of Texas. San Airwaves, in the Church and Beyond University. Antonio. Prison Walls Staging Chicana/o Theater: the Chair: Brochin Ceballos, Carol. University of Rodriguez, Lori Beth. University of Texas Politics of (Re)Presentation and the Texas, San Antonio. San Antonio.“San Anto Mestiza Poetics: (Re)Presentation of Politics Hociconas y Callejeras Traversing Literal Latino Stories of World War II: a and Literary Cultural Geographies.” Perez, Daniel Enrique. University of Nevada, Reno.“Dramatizing the Borderlands: one hour documentary film Rico, Gabriela Erandi. University of Staging Chicana/o Lives and Deaths.” California Berkeley.“Performing Indigeniety Barrera, Mario. University of California, in Mexico’s Neo-Colonial Context: the Fuentes, Marla. University of California, San Berkeley. Appropriation of Indigenous Identity during Diego.“Staging Necessary Theater:
10 Pre Conference Chicano/a Theater and the Politics of Arauz, JuanCarlos. Canal Alliance.“Jaula de Minich, Julie. Stanford University.“The Representation and Production.” Oro: Growing Up as an Undocumented Body, Space and Nation in Loaves and Latin@ Immigrant in the United States.” Fishes.” Chavarría, Carlos Manuel. Delta College. “The Process of Dramatizing and Staging Mora-Torres, Gregorio. San José State Chair: Madrigal, Doris. Stanford University. ‘Vaqueeros,” a play about Mexican Men who University.“Nineteenth Century Mexican “Not Bilingual/Chicana Enough: Chican@s Have Sex with Other Men but Keep It in and Chicano Students in American and Spanish as a Heritage Language.” Secret.” Colleges.” Yarbro-Bejarano,Yvonne. Stanford University. Friday, March 21, 2008 “HIV is still here. SO ARE WE”: Artistic Provocations in AIDS Subverting Educational Institutional Of Bodies, Counter-Discourse and Activism Barriers at Local Levels Through Gender-racial Resistance: Recent Martinez, Ernesto J. University of Oregon. Innovative Strategies Trends in Chicana/o Histories “Making Queerness Desirable: Teaching Acevedo, Nancy. San José State University. APLA’s Corpus magazine in the Ethnic Chair: Heidenreich, Linda. Washington Studies Classroom.” Rodriguez, Jessica. San José State University. State University, Pullman. Hebert, Patrick“Pato”. AIDS Project Los Mendoza, Osvaldo. San José State Gordillo, Luz Maria. Washington State Angeles.“The Politics of Querer: Knowledge University. University, Vancouver.“Mexicanas, the Production and the Praxis of HIV Border and Transnational Sexualities, 1942- Chair: Gonzalez, Dennis. San José State 2000.” Prevention.” University. Fernandez, Ray. AIDS Project Los Angeles. Gonzales, Tanya. Washington State The 50 Men of Color in Action: An University, Pullman.“Contesting Identities: “Addressing Misperceptions about HIV Chicanas and the Struggle Against White Risk: Public Art and Activism.” Urban Effort to Unite Latino and Supremacy in Post-Invasion Santa Fe.” Black Community Leaders for Protecting Academic and Artistic Cantu, Carlos. University of Texas, PanAm. Mentorship/Action in Schools and “‘Remember Comrades, We Are All Equal Materials from Exploitation Communities Here’: a Gendered Analysis of the First Juarez, Miguel. Texas A&M University. Pecina, Uzziel. University of Missouri- Chicano College.” “Making the Case for Chicana/o Studies Kansas City. Discussant: Gonzalez, Deena. Loyola Collections at Predominantly White West, Airick. Community Leader/Organizer/ Marymount University. Institutions: theYolanda Broyles Gonzalez and Francisco Gonzalez Archives at Texas Activist-Kansas City, Missouri. Sueños, Protocols and Sacred Sites A&M.” Ricks, Boris. University of Missouri-Kansas of Knowing Jennings, Rachel. San Antonio College. City. Rodriguez, Roberto. University of Arizona. “Algunos Problemas en el Rancho: the Publishing History of Americo Paredes, 500 Years of Chicana Women’s “A Methodology for People in between History–A Discussion Stories.” 1956-1990.” Leyva,Yolanda Chavez. University of Texas, Avila, Magdalena. University of New Martinez, Elizabeth“Betita”. Institute for El Paso.“The Pedagogy of Sacred Space.” Mexico.“The need for Chicana/o MultiRacial Justice. Community Protection Review Boards: Casanova, Stephen. St. Cloud State Building on the Human Subjects Review Faculty of Color and the Associate University.“Towards Indigenous Chicana Board Concept to Protect Communities Professor Glass Ceiling: New and Chicano Studies.” from Opportunistic Academic Partnerships.” Burdens, New Challenges, or The Chair: Gonzales, Patrisia. University of Navarro, Carlos. National Hispanic Post-Tenure Blues: What Happens Arizona.“Sueños and Sacred Sight: Dreams University.“The Latino Community’s as ways of Organizing Knowledge, after “Happily Ever After”? Attempt to Shape Cultural Institutions: the Diagnosing and Gathering Data.” Case of the Oakland Museum of California’s Hames García, Michael. University of Baeza Ventura, Gabriela. University of Latino Advisory Committee.” Oregon. Houston.“Chican@ Literature forYoung Castañeda, Mari. University of Adults and Children and Its Role in Identity Memorias Unmaking Mentiras: Massachusetts-Amherst. Formation.” Chicana Cultural Production as Torrez, Estrella. Michigan State University. Counter-Mythology Chicana/o Studies in the Twenty- “Creating Meaningful Spaces: Connecting First Century: the Struggle Goes On the Lived Experiences to the Educational Garcia,Vida Mia. Stanford University.“‘My Experiences of the Migrant Farmworker Alamo’ and Chicana Counter-Cultural Bustamante, Manuel. Western New Mexico Child.” Memory.” University. www.naccs.org 11 Chair: Manzanarez, Magdaleno. Western “Chino-Chicano/Asian Latino Studies”: Saturday, March 22, 2008 New Mexico University. Cultural and Transnational Approaches Maya, Gloria. Western New Mexico to Mexican/Chicana/o-Asian Relations, I Critical Reflections on Information University. Delgado, Grace Peña. Pennsylvania State Literacy: Meeting Chicana/o Studies Baeza-Ortego, Gilda. Western New Mexico University.“Colonial Inheritances and the Student/Faculty Research Needs for University. Settlement of Chinese at the U.S.-Mexico the 21st Century Borderlands.” Ortego, Felipe. Western New Mexico Corral, Norma. University of California Los University. Chew Sánchez, Martha Idalia. St. Lawrence Angeles. University.“The Denial and Oppression of Writing In The Borderlands: Toward the Chinese Presence in Mexico Embodied Duran, Karin. California State University, a Chicana Feminist Sociology in La China Poblana.” Northridge. Chao Romero, Robert. University of Luévano, Susan C. California State Facio, Elisa. University of Colorado at California, Los Angeles.“Chinese-Mexican University, Long Beach. Boulder. Intermarriage and‘Chino-Chicano Soldatenko, Michael. California State Lopez-Garza, Marta. California State Studies’.” University, Los Angeles. University, Northridge. Discussant: Hu-DeHart, Evelyn. Brown Chair: Salinas, Romelia. California State Pardo, Mary. California State University, University. University, Los Angeles. Northridge. Chair: Schiavone Camacho, Julia Maria. Soldatenko, Maria. Pitzer College. University of Texas at El Paso/Southern Dancing Across Borders 3: Tradition Methodist. & Innovation Transnational Discourses: Los Pasos Ruyter, Nancy. University of California, initials de/for the Chicana/o Novel Rene Nunez (1935-2006): a NACCS Irvine.“Gender as a Theme in the Modern Recognition and Celebration. Dance Choreography of Barro Rojo.” Montes, Amelia Maria de la Luz. University Teacher, Organizer, Chicano of Nebraska-Lincoln.“Maria Amparo Ruiz Rodriguez, Russell. University of California, de Burton was a 19th Century Elitist Racist: Movement, Chicano Studies Santa Barbara.“Ballet Folklórico in the United States: Tradition and Disillusion.” What She Teaches Us About Our Twenty- Contreras, Raoul. Indiana University First Century Elitism and Racism.” Northwest. Garcia, Peter. University of California, Santa Barbara.“Bailando Para San Lorenzo: Nuevo Martinez, Elizabeth C. Sonoma State Ortiz, Isidro. San Diego State University. Mejicano Popular Traditional Music, Ritual University. “A Binational Woman, and the Contexts, and Performativity in Bernalillo Chicanoization of her Work: Josefina Maricones on Stage: New Fiesta Time.” Niggli.” Performance Pieces by Queer Discussant: Nájera-Ramírez, Olga. Ramirez, Arthur. Sonoma State University. Chicano Artists University of California, Santa Cruz. “The Chicana/o Novel in the‘Mexican’ Literary Imagination: the Work of Don Luis Chavarria, Carlos Manuel. Delta College. Chair: Cantú, Norma. University of Texas, Leal.” “Vaqueeros.” San Antonio. Ramirez, Christopher Angel. University of “Chino-Chicano/Asian Latino “Re”producing Identity: Teaching California, Santa Cruz.“Color Bonita: Studies”: Cultural and Transnational Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Searching for Collective Intimacy.” Approaches to Mexican/Chicana/o- the Media Reyes, Guillermo. Arizona State University. Asian Relations, II Hurtado, Aida and Rodriguez-Scheel, “Men on The Verge 3-Way.” Castillo-Muñoz, Verónica. University of Andrea. University of California, Santa Chair: Perez, Daniel Enrique. University of California, Irvine.“‘Mexicali Para los Cruz.“Floating Signifiers: Representations of Nevada, Reno. Mexicanos y no Para los Chinos’: the Anti- Women of Color in the International Pages Chinese Campaigns and the formation of of Vogue .” Chicana/o Contributions to Chinese Labor Associations.” Environmental Thought: a Cervantez, Karina. University of California, Chew, Selfa. University of Texas, El Paso. Santa Cruz.“Telenovelas as Cultural Discussion with Contributors to a “Re-imagining Collectivities: the Mexican Production, as Education.” Forthcoming Special Issue of Latino Japanese during WWII.” Silva, Janelle. University of California, Santa Studies García, Jerry. Michigan State University. Cruz.“Multicultural Citizenship and the “Japanese Immigration, Mestizaje, and Ybarra, Priscilla. Texas Tech University. Politics of Representation in Children's Community Formation in Mexico, 1897- Television.” Peña, Devon. University of Washington. 1945.”
12 Pre Conference Schiavone Camacho, Julia Maria. University Trajectory and Social Bonding in the Cardenas, Norma. University of Texas, San of Texas, El Paso/Southern Methodist.“‘Ni Community.” Antonio.“Taco Haven and Mi Tierra: que me den un palacio allá, prefiero Mexican food production in San Antonio.” Magana, Adriana and Munoz, Ed. University México’: Chinese Mexican Families and Alaniz, Monica. University of Texas, San Travel Between Mexico and China, 1930s- of Wyoming.“Immigration Politics and Antonio.“Through Our Eyes: a Migrant 1960s.” Policies: Differing Perceptions and Attitudes by Latino Ethnicity, Nationality, and Pictorial Study.” Discussant: Castañeda, Antonia. St. Mary’s Migration Status.” University. Feminist Analyses of Literary Works Clausell, Brittany. University of Minnesota, Moderator: Romero, Robert Chao. Twin Cities. “English Language Learners: Garay, Joyce. New Mexico State University. University of California, Los Angeles. An Investigation of the Effect of Mobility on “Helena Maria Viramontes' Their Dogs Academics.” Came with Them: Connection in Isolation Driving the Streets of Aztlan: through Tropes of the Natural.” Lowriders and the Politics of Brown and Black: Intersections and Gunn, Bárbara. University of California, Chicana/o Cultural Production Interrelations Among Chicana/o and Davis.“From Loving Pedro Infante to Self- Determination: Languaging on the U.S.- Calvo, William. University of California, African American Communities in Mexico Border.” Santa Barbara. California Solorzano-Thompson, Nohemy. Whitman Chappell, Ben. University of Kansas. Yanez, Angelica. University of California, College.“‘Jesus walks among us’: Religion, Sandoval, Denise M. California State San Diego.“Activism in Brown and Black: Masculinity, and el chico banda Jesús in University, Northridge. the Brown Berets and Black Panthers as Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway Active Agents of Cultural Affirmation and (2004).” Condon, John (Jack). University of New Social Resistance.” Mexico. Serrano, Stephanie. Arizona State Romo, Rebecca. University of California, University.“Graciella Limon's The Day of Masumoto, Tomoko. Kanda University, Santa Barbara.“Blaxican Identity: an the Moon and La Llorona's Visions for Tokyo, Japan. Exploratory Study of Blacks/Chicanas/os in Multiple Futures.” California.” Nuestra America: Meditations on Testimonios of Navigating the the Migrations of Culture, Olmos, Daniel. University of California, Workplace as a Chicano/Latina Identities, and Knowledge Santa Barbara.“Black/Brown Carceral Subjects:‘Law and Order’ Discourse, State Ramirez, Elvia. California State University, Soto, Sandra. University of Arizona.“Our Repression and the Politics of Immigration.” Sacramento.“‘No One Taught Me the Queer América: Transnational Knowledge Steps’: Cultural Capital, Social Capital, and Chair: Guevarra, Jr., Rudy. University of Projects and Failing Racial Etiquette.” Chicano/Latino(a) Negotiations of the California, Berkeley. Graduate School Application Process.” Mendoza, Louis. University of Minnesota. “Notes from a Journey Across Our America: Post Chicana/o Movement Flores, Glenda. University of Southern Observations & Reflections on the Literatures California.“Color-blind Racism in Latinoization of the U.S.” Elementary Schools: Latina Teachers Saldívar, Ramón. Stanford University. Navigating Racial/Ethnic Interactions and Rodriguez, Ralph. Brown University.“Sex, Cultural Relations in the Teachers Lounge.” Love, and Rockets: Exhibiting Los Bros “Redefining the Borderlands in Post Hernandez's Love and Rockets.” Chicana/o Movement Literatures.” Garcia-Lopez, Gladys. University of Moya, Paula M. L.. Stanford University. California, Santa Barbara.“Las Abogadas: Vargas, Deborah. University of California, Chicanas Creating Pathways to “Dancing with the Devil—When the Devil Irvine.“Exhibiting Mexicanas-Americanas.” Success in the Legal Occupation.” is Gay.” Discussant: Saldívar-Hull, Sonia. University Blanco, Eduardo. University of Nebraska.“A Aranda, José. Rice University.“No Desperate of Texas, San Antonio. Midwest Chicano Testimonio.” Housewife Here: Being Chica and Latina Immigrant and Chicana/o Social Post 9/11.” Mobility in the University and on Discussant: Hames García, Michael. The War on Terrorism. United the Streets University of Oregon. States Foreign Policy and the 2008 Presidential Elections Santos, Xuan. University of California, Santa Comida y Fotografía: Cultural Barbara.“The Informal Economy of Rodriguez, David. California State Mexicana/o and Latina/o Laborers in the Identity Representation University, Northridge. Ivory Tower.” Rodriguez, Norma. University of Texas, San Gutierrez, Gabriel. California State Tafoya, Brenda. University of California Antonio.“Ceremonial Meals as Stage University, Northridge. Riverside.“Discrimination Among Day Performances: Barbacoa in the Center Laborers: Exploring the Acculturative Stage.” Valdes, Dennis. Michigan State University. www.naccs.org 13 Chair: Moreno, Jose. Michigan State Circulating Chicanismos: Mexican Quinonez-Skinner, Jennie. California State University. Americans Onscreen, on Air, and in University, Northridge.“Creating tools for the Streets Chicano Studies.” Reflections From the Field: Chicana/o Chair: Rodriguez, David. California State Espinoza,“Sonny” Richard. Loyola University, Northridge. Autoethnography in the Borderlands Marymount University.“El Obrero y La Arte, Spirituality, Poesía y Obrera en el Cine Americano: Gender and Challenging the Status Quo through Contrabando the Representation of Mexican Labor in American Cinema.” the Cultural Politics of Music, Language and Art Chair: Cruz, Maria Elena. University of Texas, Morrison, Amanda Maria. University of Texas, Austin.“The Mexican American Indigenous Austin.“Defusing the Latin Explosion: Mendoza, Alexandra. University of Perspective Concerning Huichol Art.” American Racial Logic and the Mass- Minnesota, Twin Cities.“Community through Marketing of Latin Musics.” Chaos: Forging a Pan-Latino Identity Sendejo, Brenda. University of Texas, Austin. through Punkera-Rock.” “Feminist Anthropology in the Borderlands: The Internationalist Trend of Sanchez, Nicholas. University of New Collapsing the Native-Knower Binary in a Chicano Studies and the U.S. War Mexico.“Pachuco Boogie a la Parisienne: the Chicana Ethnography.” and Occupation of Iraq Cultural Politics of Globalization in the Music Guerra, Santiago. University Texas, Austin. of Lalo Guerrero.” Mariscal, Jorge. University of California, San “Entre Vaqueros y Mafiosos: Diego.“NACCS/Chicano/a Studies and the Sutterby, John; Aguilar Crandall, Maria Auto/ethnography on Drug Trafficking in Internationalist Trend of the Chicano Magdalena; Murillo, Sandra; and Rubin, Rural South Texas.” Movement.” Renee. University of Texas, Brownsville.“‘Yo Quiero Taco Bell’: Signs of Chicano Chavez, Alex. University of Texas, Austin. Hernandez-G., Manuel de Jesus. Arizona Commercial Language Use on the Texas “Translocal Saludados: Huapango Arribeño, State University.“The Third World Trend of Mexico Border.” the Chicano Movement.” Multi-Sited Ethnography, and Precursory Cultural Memory.” Chair: Contreras, Raoul. Indiana University Unleashing the Unpopular: Latina Northwest.“Chicano Anti-Imperialism and Lesbian Educators the U.S. War and Occupation Of Iraq.” Big Love-Reclaiming Our Lonjas: An Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen. Trent University. Insight to Critical Chicana/o Fat New Pedagogical Concerns in Cruz, Cindy. Cornell University. Theory Chicana/o Studies: Teaching, Defining Romero, Janet. Toronto Women's Bookstore. Espinoza Cuellar, Xuanito. University of the Field, and Engaging with the Nevada, Las Vegas.“An Insight to Critical Students A Roundtable Discussion on Mexican Americans and Sports Chicana/o Fat Theory Student.” Serna, Elias. California State University, Northridge.“English in Aztlan: Reading Sandoval, Gracie. University of Nevada, Las Regalado, Samuel. California State Chicano/Latinos in English Composition University, Stanislaus. Vegas.“Deconstructing Lesbian/Queer Social Curriculum.” Constructions of Beauty Student.” Iber, Jorge. Texas Tech University. Gonzales, Martha. California State Pescador, Juan Javier. Michigan State Chair: Revilla, Anita. University of Nevada, University, Northridge.“Xicana Visions of the University. Las Vegas.“Critical Chicana/o Fat Pedagogy: Past in Literature.” Alamillo, Jose Manuel. Washington State Teaching Ourselves and Others to End the Sosa-Riddell, Citlali. California State University. Hatred of the Self UNLV Assistant University, Northridge.“Lessons From Professor.” Teaching: When Does Our History Begin?”
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