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Liago Family, Seattle, Washington, circa 1929-1930 Dorothy...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:50:49 -0600

Liago Family, Seattle, Washington, circa 1929-1930

Dorothy Cordova Photo Collection
Courtesy of the Filipino American National Historical Society

The Changing Face of California State University, circa...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:48:31 -0600

The Changing Face of California State University, circa 1970s
Public Affairs Photo Collection
Courtesy of the California State University Archives

via www.archivists.org

Liga Puertorriquena e Hispana, Brooklyn, New York The Jesus...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:42:00 -0600

Liga Puertorriquena e Hispana, Brooklyn, New York
The Jesus Colón Papers
Courtesy of the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños Hunter College, City University of New York

via Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable (AAC)

2010 Understanding Sustainability Conference Call For Proposals

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:16:00 -0600

2010 Understanding Sustainability Conference Call For Proposals : Second Annual International...

Christian Church, Native American Tribe Reconcile

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:45:34 -0600

Christian Church, Native American Tribe Reconcile : deltafoxtrot: NEW YORK (AP) — Members of one of...

(via deltafoxtrot)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:44:57 -0600

(via deltafoxtrot)

resaltador: Lupe Velez y su chihuahua, via Film Noir Photos

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:27:36 -0600

resaltador:

Lupe Velez y su chihuahua, via Film Noir Photos

“Creating Mexican American Identities: Multiple Voices,...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:33:58 -0600

“Creating Mexican American Identities: Multiple Voices, Shared Dreams

The West Chicago (IL) City Museum with the aid of two grants, one from the History Channel and one from the Illinois Humanities Council has produced a traveling exhibit, Creating Mexican American Identities: Multiple Voices, Shared Dreams.

There has never been a written history of Mexican immigration to West Chicago, so oral history was gathered, providing a framework for producing that account. In addition, with photographs that were loaned or donated and research by the City Museum staff an immigrant story emerged. The story begins with Depression era Mexican railroad workers and families in the colonias of boxcar camps on the west side of town and extends to present day Mexican Americans with leadership roles in the community.

Although the exhibit tells a local immigrant story, it is one of great national significance, touching on issues such as the rights and dignity of workers, as seen in the 1962 strike of Campbell Soup Company’s mushroom farm workers. The importance of faith and family, social justice, the preservation and celebration of culture, and the importance of the oral tradition in a culture that is not dependent on the written word are all evident in the exhibit.

By packaging this history in a traveling format, the Museum hopes to share the community’s story of diversity with other communities to expand cultural understanding. Viewers are invited to rethink issues of immigration, identity formation and the ways local history is presented.

This is a highly relevant subject for study and presentation to the broadest audience as Mexicans in DuPage County and Illinois make up the largest immigrant ethnic group, and Latinos in the United States are the fastest growing ethnic population.

Creating Mexican American Identities: Multiple Voices, Shared Dreams is currently on display at the West Chicago City Museum until the end of February 2010, and will tour DuPage County, Chicagoland and other venues that find it of interest. Please contact Sally DeFauw at 630.231.3376 or sdefauw@westchicago.org for more information or if you are interested in hosting the exhibit. The Museum is located at 132 Main Street in West Chicago.”

via Historia Listserve

guerrillamamamedicine: unrevolutionize: (via talienat)

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:49:51 -0600

guerrillamamamedicine:

unrevolutionize:

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salmonrojo: Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas 09 Item No....

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:14:31 -0600

salmonrojo:

Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas 09 Item No. 4

“Bocaditos: Flash Fictions is Ana Castillo’s first chapbook in many years. Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies, this 40-page chapbook is printed on non-acidic, 80% post-consumer waste recycled paper, with a hand-sewn spine. A die-cut window in the cover reveals a self portrait painted by Ana.

As Ana writes in her Preface: ‘These are independent stories or excerpts from much longer ones that developed from my solitary life and my singular desire to write. They came to me in my condo in Chicago and in my desert home in New Mexico. When I lived in those places. Or, hoped that I was living.’”

Where Was the Color in Seattle?: Looking for Reasons Why the Great Battle Was So White.

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:58:00 -0600

Where Was the Color in Seattle?: Looking for Reasons Why the Great Battle Was So White. :...

curate: kithandkoko: Critical Ethnic Studies Conference, March...

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:04:09 -0600

curate:

kithandkoko: Critical Ethnic Studies Conference, March 10-12, 2011

mestizarate: sexismandthecity: A compilation of clips from...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:50:22 -0600

mestizarate:

sexismandthecity:

A compilation of clips from film and television demonstrating the prominence of gender role stereotypes in media.

I don’t really understand why Dolly Parton’s part is in here though. Dolly doesn’t play.

“Flowers and San Francisco Examiner put at City Hall...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:12:00 -0600

“Flowers and San Francisco Examiner put at City Hall steps, the day after the Mayor and Harvey Milk were slain,” 28 November 1978

via webbie1.sfpl.org

The 800 Mile Wall l Directed by John Carlos Frey & Produced...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:59:05 -0600

The 800 Mile Wall l Directed by John Carlos Frey & Produced by Jack Lorenz l 90 minutes l 2009

“The 800 Mile Wall highlights the construction of the new border walls along the U.S.-Mexico border as well as the effect on migrants trying to cross into the U.S. This powerful 90-minute film is an unflinching look at a failed U.S. border strategy that many believe has caused the death of thousands of migrants and violates fundamental human rights.”

"International (Dis)order and Violence in the Twenty-first Century Third Global Nonviolence Student..."

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:50:00 -0600

“International (Dis)order and Violence in the Twenty-first Century Third Global Nonviolence...

curate: materialworld: He’s a woman! (via bobster855 share...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:21:48 -0600

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materialworld:

He’s a woman! (via bobster855 share alike cc)

Original caption: .. Above is pictured Michael Higgins, who for six years was employed as a man. ‘He’ was married. ‘He’ was facing trial on grand theft fraud charges. Then ‘he’ was arrested again as a forgery suspect.

Taken to jail, Higgins was revealed to be a woman. Police blushed. Higgins had twice been arrested and booked as a male. Present at time of the arrest was Higgin’s ‘wife,’ pretty Betty Higgins, just returned from an extended stay in Phoenix. Said Higgins: ‘Sure I’m Mickey Higgins,’ she allegedly declared. ‘But I’m not married, and I only wear men’s clothes when I go on a trip. I’m going to Phoenix today; that’s why I had them on.”

From the San Francisco Public Library.

Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:14:00 -0600

Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39 by Gabriela F. Arredondo

“Mexican Chicago builds on previous studies of Mexicans in the United States while challenging static definitions of ‘American’ and underlying assumptions of assimilation. Gabriela F. Arredondo contends that because of the revolutionary context from which they came, Mexicans in Chicago between 1916 and 1939 were not just another ethnic group working to be assimilated into a city that has a long history of incorporating newcomers. Suggesting a new understanding of identity formation, she argues that Mexicans wielded tools of identification forged in revolutionary Mexico to collectively battle the prejudices of ethnic groups that included Poles, Italians, and the Irish, as well as African Americans. By turning inward, however, Mexicans also highlighted tremendous differences among themselves, such as gender and class. In discussing this distinctive process of becoming ‘Mexican’ in Chicago during the early twentieth century, Arredondo not only explores how that identity was constructed but also provides telling insight into the repercussions of that identity formation process.”

“Of Breasts and Baldness: My Life With Cancer”, in...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:07:42 -0600

“Of Breasts and Baldness: My Life With Cancer”, in Speaking From the Body: Latinas On Health and Culture, eds. Angie Chabram-Dernersesian and Adela de la Torre, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008: 14-30.

salmonrojo: Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas 09 Item No....

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:18:40 -0600

salmonrojo:

Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas 09 Item No. 3

“With its nameless protagonists, unusual punctuation, poetic breaks, and graphic depictions of genocide and antigay violence, Glave’s The Torturer’s Wife is about as far as you’ll get from a breezy beach read. Nonetheless, the Lambda Literary Award winner’s experimental short story collection—which tackles war, slavery, turbulent gay relationships, and HIV—contained some of 2009’s most compelling moments in queer literature. Glave (left) is only the second gay African American (after James Baldwin) to win the O. Henry Prize for short fiction.”—Out 100