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Spring 2013 Adelante NU! Volume 2 DecolonizingDecolonizing AcademiaAcademia && StrengtheningStrengthening OurOur CommunitiesCommunities Note from the Director As another academic year closes, I am hon- Diaspora Graduate Cluster, which will allow our ored to share with you our achievements faculty members to work directly with graduate and activities during 2012-13. The Latina students interested in engaging interdiscipli- In this issue: and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern narily with these topics. We look forward as Interdisciplinary Speaker University continues to grow, both in terms we continue to grow in our relationships with Series of numbers of students who sign up for the graduate students on campus. Finally, I want major and the minor, as well as in scholarly to exhort all of you to continue to visit our new Student Civic Engagement: distinction. It is a true pleasure to see our website. This year we continue to work very · Moratorium on deportations students, both majors and minors, continue hard as we prepare the Bracero Oral History march to grow as young intellectuals and to play Project –under the coordination of Almita · Michael Collins Campaign a leadership role in pushing the university Miranda and Professor Gerry Cadava—for the · César Chávez Day of Service to reflect on issues of race, inequality, and Spring 2014 Bittersweet Harvest Exhibit in part- difference. Whether it is advocating for the nership with the Smithsonian Institution. In Racial Timeline establishment of an Indigenous Studies addition, we are also participating in organizing LLSP CLassroom Engagement: Program on campus, as Adam Mendel has a Latino Studies National Conference to be held · TSJ Educational Symposium done; pushing the university to continue to in July 2014 in downtown Chicago that will be improve the racial climate for minorities on an inaugural event for the field practitioners · Visit to the NMMA campus, as Sandra Garnica exemplifies; or as well as it will establish an Association for Major/Minor Yearbook organizing events for students that memo- Latino/a Studies Scholars. We are proud to play Alumni Perspective rialize Latino/a history, such as Anthony a major role in the planning of these important Iglesias has, are only some examples of the events for next year. I thank Joanna Maravilla- Accomplishments dynamic levels of activity that make this Cano, our program assistant, and Sandra Transitions university a better place for all. We thank our Garnica and Lucero Segundo, our work-study 2013-2014 Courses students for this commitment. In addition to students, for all the work behind every success- our regular undergraduate courses, LLSP is ful event. now part of the new Comparative Race and -Dr. Frances R. Aparicio This year we worked with various departments in order to reflect on the boundaries, tensions, and shared dialogues that have emerged from Latino/a scholarship in various disciplines. Our speakers shared their research as well as commented on their own location in the intersices of both. How is our work informed by our own disciplinary training? How do we become inter- or trans- disciplinary? How do the disciplines understand the scholarly production about U.S. Latino/as? What are the mutual transformations for each? Co-sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Really Becoming Mexican/ Becoming Mexican, Really: Langston Hughes’s Latin Passages Beyond the Legend: César Chávez, Co-sponsored by African American Studies Charismatic Leadership, and the Claudia Milián Relevance of Accountability Duke University Co-sponsored by the History Department Professor Matt García Arizona State University The Remittance Landscape: A Built Environment Perspective on U.S.-Mexico Migration Co-sponsored by the Art HIstory Department Sarah López Provost Fellow in History, University of Chicago N+1: Sex, Immigration, and Iteration Culture Works: On the Cultural Politics Co-sponsored by the English Department of Neoliberalism Mary Pat Brady Cornell University Co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department Arlene Dávila New York University Circuits of Trans Electronic Drag: Fausto Fernós’s Boricua Cyber Universe Co-sponsored by Spanish and Portuguese Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes University of Michigan Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department Vilma Ortiz University of California Los Angeles César Chávez come out and support. Other students and I organized Day of Service to make sure there was a Northwestern student pres- ence at the march. And so, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day On Saturday April 6th, 2013, Omega a good group of students headed over on the CTA with Delta Phi hosted its second annual signs and passion in tow to Daley Plaza in downtown César Chávez Day of Service. Over fifty Chicago. We had talked about why we were marching Northwestern University, Evanston – our stories. We were here to help make a statement – Township High School, and other no family should have to be split up, no one should have Midwest college students participated. to suffer from unfair deportations. Historian and Latina/o Studies faculty In the cold that day, listening to people so bravely member Dr. Geraldo Cadava presented share their testimonies, I knew the power we all had the keynote address. He spoke about there at the rally. I know that rallies and marches aren’t the history of César Chávez and the enough to keeping our families together and making legacy he left behind as a prominent Moratorium on Deportations sure people are treated with dignity. Private prisons Latino activist figure. The Brothers also I remember the first time I considered coming to North- are exploiting immigrants, border militarization kills collected over 50 dollars for the Anhelo western. My junior year of high school I marched as a part of ALAS people every day, bans on ethnic studies attempt to Project’s DREAM Scholarship fund for (Association of Latin American Students) at my high school in the second keep erasing our history. But I believe coming together undocumented students in Illinois. IJYL Coming Out of the Shadows march and rally. I walked and chanted as a community and taking control of our power is After receiving their bagged with my friends while glancing at a group of older students all wearing important because change requires different tactics lunches, volunteers spread to different purple sweatshirts that said “Northwestern.” “Miralos,” I thought, “they’re and strategies. Today, I am so happy I get to be the Northwestern student that’s involved – the one I looked sites throughout the North Chicagoland involved.” When I found out the Latino Union of Chicago was organizing up to a couple of years ago. area. In conjunction with the Evanston a march against unfair deportations, I knew it was my responsibility to ~Cinthya Rodriguez, WCAS ‘16 Public Library and Evanston en Español, volunteers ran a series of bilingual readings, workshops, and educa- tional activities for various families. to meet him to hear his story and tell him that I was sorry this happened The Brown Elephant retail centers in to him because as someone who has endured almost 4 years at this racist Uptown and Edgewater also offered institution I know at least to some degree how painful it can be. It was at this initial meeting that I learned of the extent of harrassment he was volunteers the chance to contribute to facing and the fact that after Micheal reached out none of his superiors, the community by helping fundraise for administrators, and Morty Shapiro were doing anything to rectify the situ- the Howard Brown Health Center. This ation after a month. historic health center is the Midwest’s After asking him what he wanted, I realized that his demands largest LGBT(Q) organization founded were almost exactly the same as those students have been pushing for. as an AIDS clinic. Meanwhile, several Because of this we organized first a large open forum with Micheal Collins volunteers cleaned up over 110 pounds to give him the opportunity to tell his story. Then we organized a letter of trash from a Rogers Park beach. writting campaign to connect and tell our stories as students. Fianlly we The service program will organized a march/rally to stand in solidarity with Michael Collins and continue to help make Northwestern against racism. University and Evanston a safe and Michael Collins The march started at Tech, where Michael spoke out agianst welcoming space for Latinos for years to Campaign the racism he and students endure. He thanked all the students for their come. support and ecouraged us to keep fighting. Then we march down a busy -Anthony Iglesias, WCAS ‘13 On December 3rd facilities management worker, Sheridan rd. yelling chants like “hey hey ho ho racism has got to go”. We Michael Collins, walked into his office to find his black went through the Arch and rallied at the rock. We started the rally by teddy bear lynched by his desk. This was the last painting the rock black symbolizing the hatred and darkness this campus straw for him, as he had already endured 5 years of feels because of racism at its core. Then we heard some students stories racial harrassment (called a nigger, hot coffee spilt on and concluded by encouraging community dialogue. him, denied promotions, etc.) at NU. It was so inspiring to see so many students who walked out However, most students didn’t hear of their classrooms to march and over 250 people who stood in solidarity about it until after winter break, January 28th, when with Michael and agaisnt racism. While we are glad that Michael won his the Daily Northwestern wrote a story on it. I thought case, we still have much more work to do to dismantle the institutionalized it was ridiculous that it took over a month for racism at NU.

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