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“Yo No Cruse La Frontera, La Frontera Me Cruzo” (I Didn’T Cross The Border, The Border Crossed Me), Heriberto Zavala
“Yo No Cruse La Frontera, La Frontera Me Cruzo” (I Didn’T Cross The Border, The Border Crossed Me), Heriberto Zavala
McNair Research Journal SJSU
The song, “Somos Mas Americanos” is a work of art, and every single one of its lyrics is tied to a history about my experiences, my family’s experiences, and the experiences of countless others. Lyrics like those in “Somos Mas Americanos” touch people’s souls and pierce their hearts because it speaks to the socioeconomic, racial hierarchy, racially biased politics, and laws against immigrant workers like myself in the U.S. Further than that, it educates listeners about the U.S./Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, where México lost its territory to the U.S., which explains the heated controversy surrounding the …
Naccs 43rd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 43rd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
¡Chicana/o Power! Transforming Chicana/o Activism, Discourse and Scholarship into Power
April 6-9, 2016
DoubleTree by Hilton
Naccs 42nd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 42nd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Chicana/o In/Civilities: Contestación y Lucha: Cornerstones of Chicana & Chicano Studies
April 15-19, 2015
Parc 55 A Hilton Hotel
#NACCSSF
Naccs 41st Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 41st Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Fragmented Landscapes in Chicana and Chicano Studies: Deliberation, Innovation or Extinction?
April 9-12, 2014
Hilton Salt Lake City Center
Naccs 40th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 40th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Advancing From Sea to Shining ¡Sí!: Learning From Our Past, Defending Our Rights in the 21st Century
March 20-23, 2013
Omni San Antonio Colonnade
Naccs 39th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 39th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
NACCS@40 Celebrating Scholarship and Activism
March 14-17, 2012
Palmer House Hilton
Con Safos: A Chicano's Journey Through Life In California, E. David Sierra
Con Safos: A Chicano's Journey Through Life In California, E. David Sierra
Con Safos: A Chicano's Journey Through Life in California by E. David Sierra
No abstract provided.
Naccs 38th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 38th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Sites of Education for Social Justice
March 30-April 2, 2011
The Westin Pasadena
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Naccs 37th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 37th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Chicana/o Environmental Justics Struggles for a Post-Neoliberal Age
April 7-10, 2010
Grand Hyatt
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 38, No. 4, Nov/Dec 2009, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 38, No. 4, Nov/Dec 2009, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 38, No. 3, August 2009, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 38, No. 3, August 2009, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 38, No. 2, May 2009, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 38, No. 2, May 2009, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Naccs 36th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 36th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
¡El Movimiento Sigue!
April 8-11, 2009
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 38, No. 1, Pre-Conference 2009, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 38, No. 1, Pre-Conference 2009, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 37, No. 3, August 2008, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 37, No. 3, August 2008, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Indigenous Ecology And Chicanada Coalition Building In The Dramatic Works Of Cherríe Moraga: “Living Models” For A Sustainable Future, Paula Straile-Costa
Indigenous Ecology And Chicanada Coalition Building In The Dramatic Works Of Cherríe Moraga: “Living Models” For A Sustainable Future, Paula Straile-Costa
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
Abstract:
This study focuses on three recent dramatic works by Cherríe Moraga’s written in the same period as her essay and poetry collection, The Last Generation. Heroes and Saints, Watsonville: Some Place Not Here, and Circle in the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto draw from indigenous ecology and the historical archive of Chicano struggle that provide models for a sustainable future she envisions. The author shifts from poetry and essay - the lyrical, reflective mode of self-inquiry and expression for which she is so well known – to a collective dramatic dialogue allowing her to …
Eusebio Chacón’S Statist Narratives Of Nuevo México, Daisy Salazar
Eusebio Chacón’S Statist Narratives Of Nuevo México, Daisy Salazar
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
Abstract:
The 1890s in New Mexico were a time of considerable political, cultural, and social upheaval as the question of statehood – which would remain unresolved until 1912 – roiled the population. In 1892 Eusebio Chacón’s two novellas, El Hijo de la Tempestad and Tras la Tormenta la Calma, appeared in “El Boletín Popular,” one of Northern New Mexico’s largest Spanish-language newspapers. “El Boletín Popular’s” positive stance towards statehood offers a political lens through which we might read Chacón’s fiction as a proactive instantiation of nuevomexicano cultural tradition. In his introductions to the novellas Chacón denies any Anglo literary …
Re-Imagining Collectivities: The Mexican Japanese During World War Ii, Selfa Chew
Re-Imagining Collectivities: The Mexican Japanese During World War Ii, Selfa Chew
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
Abstract:
The removal from the United States/Mexico borderlands of persons of Japanese descent during World War II resulted in great losses which, until now, have not been acknowledged by the Mexican or the United States government. Although their forced relocation is an event of great significance in the relations of the two countries involved in their displacement, the official narratives deny any deep impact suffered by Japanese Mexicans. However, the question of their uprooting is inextricably linked to the loss of civil rights and the Mexican government’s compliance with the United States’ requirement to neutralize internal enemies. This paper explores …
“María Y Revolución, Eso Es Lo Que Ocupa Mi Corazón”: Love And Liberation In The Prison Writings Of Ricardo Flores Magón, Alejandro Wolbert Pérez
“María Y Revolución, Eso Es Lo Que Ocupa Mi Corazón”: Love And Liberation In The Prison Writings Of Ricardo Flores Magón, Alejandro Wolbert Pérez
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
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Over a century ago Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón spoke out against the injustices of Porfirio Díaz’ regime through their writings in the leftist paper Regeneración and their work organizing under the banner of the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM); first in Mexico, and later while exiled in the United States, where Ricardo was repeatedly imprisoned for his attempts to ferment revolution. Documented in published essays in Partido papers, magonista ideology, anarchist and internationalist in nature, explicitly critiqued capitalism and the limitations of the nation-state in early 20th century Mexico. Just as important as these printed works for public dissemination, …
Transnational Knowledge Projects And Failing Racial Etiquette, Sandra Soto
Transnational Knowledge Projects And Failing Racial Etiquette, Sandra Soto
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
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This essay calls upon Chicana/o Studies scholars to interrogate some of the assumptions underwriting the transnational turn. Chief among these is the implicit supposition that in order to produce transnational scholarship, one simply (but necessarily) must cross a national border. On the one hand, in taking the concept “transnational” far too literally, this simplistic assumption ignores far more substantive and compelling questions about transnational capitalism’s affects on subjectivity, desire, and resistance. On the other hand, the (sole) crossing-borders criterion suggests that those scholars who work on racial formations within the U.S. (Chicana/o Studies scholars, for instance) have no responsibility …
Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study Of Blacks/Chicanas/Os In California, Rebecca Romo
Blaxican Identity: An Exploratory Study Of Blacks/Chicanas/Os In California, Rebecca Romo
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
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This paper explores the racial/ethnic identities of multiracial Black-Mexicans or ‘Blaxicans.’ In- depth interviews with 12 Blaxican individuals in California reveal how they negotiate distinct cultural systems to accomplish multiracial identities. I argue that choosing, accomplishing, and asserting a Blaxican identity challenges the dominant monoracial discourse in the United States, in particular among African American and Chicana/o communities. That is, Blaxican respondents are held accountable by African Americans and Chicanas/os/Mexicans to monoracial notions of ‘authenticity.’ The process whereby Blaxicans move between these monoracial spaces to create multiracial identities illustrates crucial aspects of the social construction of race/ethnicity in the …
Latinas In The Kitchen: The Rhetoric Of Food And Desire, Elizabeth Kessler
Latinas In The Kitchen: The Rhetoric Of Food And Desire, Elizabeth Kessler
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
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Even though the commodification of women by linking them erotically to food has been accepted for decades and used by women themselves to manipulate men and their desires, this has, in turn, led to behavioral and psychological problems. Using feminist as well as psychoanalytical criticism and theory by authors such as Nancy Chodorow, Nydia Garcia-Preto, Elspeth Probyn, Sigmund Freud, and others, “Latinas in the Kitchen: The Rhetoric of Food and Desire” explores how addiction to food and sex leads to unsuitable ways to satisfy one’s needs. Beginning with untreated emotional abuse that leads to inappropriate behavior between a father …
Power To The Panza: The Politics Of Panza Positive Cultural Production, A Performance, Virgina Grise, Irma Mayorga
Power To The Panza: The Politics Of Panza Positive Cultural Production, A Performance, Virgina Grise, Irma Mayorga
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
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The Panza Monologues is a solo performance piece both written by Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga and also composed from contributions by Chicanas in San Antonio, TX gathered by Grise and Mayorga. In live production of the piece, Grise is the solo actor and Mayorga serves as director, dramaturge, and designer. As a whole, the play focuses on stories that hinge on the metaphor of “la panza” to articulate and describe the multiple conditions of Chicanas’ lives in terms of their physical, social, racial, and class dimensions. The piece has been performed in various locations from its inception in …
Too Mex For The Masses: Bringing Mexican Regional Music To Market, Amanda Maria Morrison
Too Mex For The Masses: Bringing Mexican Regional Music To Market, Amanda Maria Morrison
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
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This article explores the exclusion of Mexican regional music from major marketing and promotional efforts within the domestic music industry, and what that elision reveals about dominant and competing claims on “Latino” ethnic identity. Despite being the bestselling Latin music genre in the U.S., regional Mexican music receives the least development backing and attracts the fewest corporate sponsors. Unlike the suave salseros and Latin-pop divas of previous “Latin booms,” no Mexican regional artist, save for Selena, has ever been primed for mainstream “crossover” success. I argue that what is at stake in promotion of various Latin genres is the …
Chicana Photography: The Power Of Place, Ann Marie Leimer
Chicana Photography: The Power Of Place, Ann Marie Leimer
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
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The concern with space, location, place, and geographic site has received heightened attention from artists and theorists from the 1960s onward. For critics and creators engaged with these concepts, the analysis of the interaction between of the processes of spatialization, identity formation, and memory has emerged as an important aspect of critical discourse. Lucy Lippard defines space as a physical site, understood as landscape or nature, while place implies intimacy, a familiarity with a certain geographic location. For Lippard, human interaction and, most importantly, the infusion of memory into space or a geographic site produces place. Michel de Certeau …