Preliminary Program as of 3/10/2017
Complete program information with rooms and time will be available in the printed program available to registrants at the conference.
Thursday
Literary Interpretations in Biography and Fiction
Kim, Joo Ok. University of Kansas. “Nuclear Dreams: Chicano Fiction and Speculations of Kinship in North Korea.”
Arce, William. California State University, Fresno. “Hispanic Dimensions in Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez’s autobiography Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story: Region and Religion in the War on Terror.”
Guzman, Georgina. California State University, Channel Islands. “Healing Affective Anemia: The Neoliberal University, Chicana Literature, and Brown Affect.”
Martinez, Susana. DePaul University. “The Case of the Missing Ayotzinapa Students in an Era of Globalization, War on Drugs and Mass Expulsions.”
Epistemological and Dystopic Textual Alternatives
Chee, Fabio. California State University, San Marcos. “Deterritorializing the Future: Chicanx in Science Fiction and the Future Los Angeles Dystopia.”
Epstein, Lee. University of Texas, San Antonio. “A “radical” foundation: Mapping rhizomatic root structures within Chicanx epistemologies.”
Vazquez, Alexander. University of California, Berkeley. “The Body and Visual Structure in John Rechy's City of Night.”
Contesting Histories: Memory and Representation in a Globalized Era
Zárate, Salvador. University of California, San Diego. “The Orange County Rise of the New American Right and Anti-Black Housing Discrimination in Reitman v. Mulkey (1967), or The Sugary Ephemera of Gardening in Santa Ana.”
Nuñez Arroyo, Margarita Alely. University of Kansas. “Latina Characters in Popular Fiction: Exploring Genealogies, Ethnic Ambiguities, Hypersexualization, and Ethnic Tropes through Latina Characters.”
Cadena, José Héctor. University of Kansas. “False Empathy: The Big American Band Aid.”
Chair: Perreira, Christopher. University of Kansas. “Futurity in Memory: Horizons and the Cultural Politics of Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148.”
Loss, Trauma, and Werewolves: Xicana Feminist Approaches to War and Globalization
Morales, Orquidea. University of Michigan. “Feeding Ground: Werewolves as Modern Day Refugees.”
Espinoza, Lauren. Arizona State University. “Poetic Diosas: Latin@ Reimaginings of Loss and Globalization.”
Ramírez, Sara A. University of Texas, San Antonio. “‘And then the fighting began’: Intergenerational Trauma and Collective Pain in Virginia Grise’s blu.”
La Militancia Política Enriquece Nuestro Trabajo Académico
Simón Salazar, Harry. University of California, San Diego.
Escamilla, Rosiangela. University of California, San Diego.
Lares, Christina. San Diego State University.
Roundtable: Labor Struggles across the Food Chain in the Age of Globalization
Madrigal, Tomás. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Place Based with a World of Impact: Social Movements across the Food Chain in Washington State.”
Ybarra, Megan. University of Washington. “When Knowing Your Rights is not Enough: A Hunger Strikers Handbook.”
Mora Villalpando, Maru. Latino Advocacy, LLC. “Dispatches from the Northwest Detention Center Resistance: From Hunger Strikes to Talleres de Resistencia.”
Torres, Ramón. President, Familias Unidas por la Justicia. “Dispatches from the Berry fields of Washington State: The Road to the First Independent Farmworker Union Contract in the United States.”
Community Building with La Familia: Experience and Education
Torres, Pedro. Portland State University. “Community Building at Predominantly White Institutions.”
Martinez, Pedro. California State University, Los Angeles. “(Re)Imagining the Politics of Parenting.”
Kouyoumdjian, Claudia; Guzman, Bianca L; Medrano, Jasmine; and Shaw, Caitlin T. California State University, Los Angeles. “‘Estamos allí con Ellos para Motivarlos’: A Community Cultural Wealth Analysis of Parental Narratives on Education.”
Ramirez, Laura. University of Illinois at Chicago. “Madres en Resistencia: Latinas Redefining Education and Human Rights in the United States through Direct Action.”
Chicano Studies and Science: Land Reserve Management, the Environment, and STEM
Lerma, Marie. The Ohio State University. “‘Another World, Another Self’: Understanding Reactions to the 2010-2015 California Drought.”
Ramirez, Karen. California State University, Channel Islands. “Connecting Chicana/o Studies & Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Environmental Science.”
Roundtable: Chicana/o Studies Students, Community Engagement and Social Justice
Madrigal, Diana. California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Esparza, Ulisses. California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Cortez, Kimberly. California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Auroza, Evelyn. California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Castellanos, Kelsey. California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Chair: Chávez, Marisela. California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Elevating Chicanx/Latinx Strengths, Voices, and Experiences in Higher Education through the F.U.E.RZA Mentoring Program
Hernández, Rafael. California State University, San Marcos.
Galaz, Leandro. California State University, San Marcos.
Melena, Leo. California State University, San Marcos.
Clark-Ibáñez, Marisol. California State University, San Marcos.
Peñaloza, Nancy. California State University, San Marcos.
Chicana/o Studies Curriculum in a Globalized World: Confrontations, Retentions, and Transformative Justice
Prado, Jose and Ordoñez, Magaly. California State University, Dominguez Hills. “Chicana/o Higher Educational Confrontations with Global Agendas at Hispanic Serving Institutions.”
Garcia, Alicia. University of California, Davis. “Addressing Latina Student Attrition and Retention Rates in Four Year Universities: Student Departure and Return to the University.”
García, José. California State University, Channel Islands. “DACAmented Educators, Precarity, and Performative Acts of Hope.”
González Cárdenas, Elizabeth. California State University, Fullerton. “‘Some Profes Truly Cared About Us’: Femtor and Mentor Practices and its impact on Chicana and Chicano Students in Higher Education.”
Writing Resistance, Constructing Gender: Contesting Colonization in the Nineteenth-Century American Southwest
Ovalle Perez, Vanessa. University of Southern California. “Gender, Alliance, and a Reading Public: Poem Dedications of the Nineteenth Century Southwest.”
Fonseca, Vanessa. Arizona State University. “Competing Colonization in The Squatter and the Don by María Amparo Ruíz de Burton.”
Roybal, Karen. Colorado College. “Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It: Challenging Historical Domination through Testimonio.”
Hernández, Bernadine. University of New Mexico. “Producing Nationhood: A Tale of Sexual Economies in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands and WPA Narratives.”
Chair: Hernández, Bernadine. University of New Mexico.
Precarious Crossings: Transborder Spaces and Displacements
Martínez, Melissa. University of California, San Diego. “Economic Spaces at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Representations of Restricted Labor and Geographical Mobility.”
Pérez, Crystal R. University of California, San Diego. “Reading the Neoliberal City: Im(mobility), Immigration and Warfare in Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier.”
Martínez, Norell. University of California, San Diego. “Cross-Border Childbirth, Globalization and the Re-Emergence of Midwifery.”
Núñez, Bernardo. University of California, San Diego. “Spiraling Backward: Women in the Neoliberal Country and City.”
Chair: Sánchez, Rosaura. University of California, San Diego.
Roundtable: Spanish Heritage Language En La Lucha: Where Language Meets Identity
Flores, José. Arizona State University. “Aquí estamos y no nos vamos: Challenging Arizona's war on Spanish Heritage Language.”
Loza, Sergio. Arizona State University. “The Problematic Definition and Treatment of Heritage Speakers' Spanish in the Community and in the Classroom.”
Amezcua, Angélica. Arizona State University. “The coming together for Chicana/o Studies and Spanish Heritage Language Pedagogy.”
Gómez-Becerra, José Juan. Arizona State University. “Voces que se reconocen: literature y cultura chicana en la pedagogía del español.”
Gómez, Nancy. Arizona State University. “Movidas pedagógicas: Curricular Activities in a Heritage Language Classroom.”
NuevoMexican@ Identity Dynamics; Herencia, Palabra, y Texto
Moore-Maldonaldo, Rebecca. New Mexico Highlands University. “The Politics of Indigenous Identity: Past, Present and Future.”
Martinez, Benito. New Mexico Highlands University. “Facilitating the Word: Identity-Construction College Writing Instruction in Service to Community.”
Escanuela, Andrew. New Mexico Highlands University. “Language in Las Vegas Nuevo Mexico: Dialect and its role in Place-Identity Formation.”
Flores, Shane. New Mexico Highlands University. “Las Gorras Blancas: El Espiritu de Querencia.”
Chair: Romero, Eric. New Mexico Highlands University.
Marginalization and Gentrification in the Barrio: The New Colonialism
Huante, Alfredo. University of Southern California. “A Lighter Shade of Brown? Gentrification, Gente-fication and Racial Formation in a Los Angeles Barrio.”
Valencia Wences, Adriana. California State University, Fullerton. “Is the Gated Community in the United States and Latin America a Consequence of Colonial Domination?”
Jaramillo, Alejandro. Kalamazoo College. “Borrando el Barrio: A Critical Analysis of the City of Champions Revitalization Initiative and its Relationship to Coloniality.”
Catano, Leslie. Community Member. “Mi Barrio es Mi Barrio: Gentrification in Pilsen.”
Roundtable: Chicana/o Studies, Pedagogy and Digital Humanities
Caballero, Cecilia. University of Southern California. “Chicana M(other)work Storytelling Project.”
Carpio, Genevieve. UC Los Angeles. “Towards a Digital Ethnic Studies: Race, Technology and the Classroom.”
Garcia Merchant, Linda. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “Chicana Diasporic: A Nomadic Journey of the Activist Exiled, an Omeka site on the history of the Chicana Caucus of the National Women’s Political Caucus during the years 1973-1979.”
Perez, Annemarie. CSU Dominguez Hills. “Digital Divides and the Chicana/o Studies Classroom.”
Discussant: Prado, Reina. California State University Los Angeles.
Roundtable: Fashioning Decolonial Landscapes: Chicana Feminist Methodologies
Hurtado, Aída. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Sandoval, Chela. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Díaz-Sánchez, Micaela. University of California, Santa Barbara.
OSU's LASER: A Way to Stop the Latinx Bleed Out
Costello Tzintzún, Elena Mary. The Ohio State University.
Martinez, Jeannette. The Ohio State University.
Lopez, Randi. The Ohio State University.
Lerma, Marie. The Ohio State University.
Valerio, Miguel. The Ohio State University.
Aldama, Frederick. The Ohio State University.
Roundtable: The Relevance and Impact of Ethnic Studies on High School and Undergraduate Bay Area Youth
Parra, Marvin. University of California, Davis.
Chacon, Eddy. University of California, Davis.
Molina, Miguel. University of California, Davis.
Martinez, Eduardo. University of California, Davis.
Chair: Chacon, Luis. Ace Charter High School.
Day Labor and Economics Marginality: The Realities of Survival
Castrejon, J. Adrian. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “Transcending Day Labor Work in Las Vegas: Testimonios de Supervivencia y Resistencia.”
Lopez, Maria Eugenia. University of New Mexico. “Cross-border cultures of servitude: Domestic Workers, Affect, Intimacy and the Banalities of Violence.”
Avalos De Hoyos, Irene. University of Texas, San Antonio. “In Search for Understanding: A Homeless Reality.”
La Boca: A Site for Resistance, Consumption, and Sound
Lopez Lyman, Jessica. University of Minnesota. “Latina Ritual Project: Orality in Multi-Genre Performance.”
Barragan Miranda, Janett. University of California, Santa Barbara. “She’ll Still Feed Her Children Beans and Tortillas”: A Historical Reflection on the Implications of Eating Mexican Food 1960s-1970s.”
Ellis, Amanda. University of Houston. “Hambre and Sound in Helena Maria Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus.”
Serrato, Claudia. University of Washington. “The Horny Mouth: A Taste of Decoloniality and Ancestral Knowledge Systems.”
Persistence of “Racism” in Higher Education: Strategies for Survival in the Classroom
Boulware, Janet; Deeb-Sossa, Natalia. University of California, Davis. “We are not a token! Chicanx/Latinx Undergraduate Students as Cultural Citizens at the University of California at Davis.”
Ortega, Frank. Diablo Valley College. “Chicanx-Latinx Undergraduate Student Resistance: The Student Protest Movement and Counter-framing.”
Perez, Frank. University of California, Riverside. “Formation of Racializing Education: Tracing How Racializing Notions Historically Affect Students of Color.”
Body Image, Mothering, and Lyrics of Revolution: Latina Qualitative Research Projects
Franco, Evelin. Cal Poly Pomona. “Our Space, Our Place, Our Case: Body Image in Latinas Ages 30-60.”
Alvarez, Kimberly. Cal Poly Pomona. “Undergraduate Mothers of Color: Demanding Inclusivity within Higher Education Institutions.”
Reyes Olmedo, Maria de los Angeles. Cal Poly Pomona. “Existimos porque resistimos: Lyrics of Revolution and Resistance in Latin America.”
Chair: Aguilar-Hernández, José M. Cal Poly Pomona. “Pedagogical Reflections: Teaching Qualitative Research Methods to Undergraduates in Ethnic and Women’s Studies.”
Food Studies meets Advertising and Branding: Chicano Perspectives
Chavez, Ariana. California State University, Northridge. “Advertisements and the inception of the San Joaquin Valley Citrus Industry.”
Cardenas, Norma. Eastern Washington University. “Tex-Mex, USA: The Story of Tex-Mex Food Branding in San Antonio.”
Urquiza, Soraira. California State University, Northridge. “Food Justice: Marketing to the Latina/o Community.”
Picket Fences and Prison Bars: Displacement and Development in California Suburbs
Leiva, Priscilla. California State University, Los Angeles. “From Chavez Ravine to Southeast LA: Rewriting Suburban Narratives.”
Carpio, Genevieve. University of California, Los Angeles. “Race and Refuge in the Multiracial Exurb.”
Ananth, Akhila. California State University, Los Angeles. “To Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle Youth: Ecological Preservation in the Design of Juvenile Detention Centers.”
Chair: González, Erualdo. California State University, Fullerton.
The Radicality of Testimonios: From “The Personal” to “The Public”
Diaz Martin, Esther. University of Texas, Austin. “A Chicana Theoretical Framework for the Study of Popular Sound Culture: Addressing Cultural Violence through the Airwaves.”
Sanchez, Irene. MVC/The Southwest Political Report. “Testimonios of Transformation: Redefining Achievement and Success through the Experiences of Latina/o Community College Students.”
Méndez-Negrete, Josie. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Thirties Generation: Lived Experiences of Marginalization and Exclusion in the Struggle for Rights.”
Deeb-Sossa, Natalia; Rojas, Clarissa. University of California, Davis. “Wielding our bodies and words:” Migrant Women’s Testimonios on crossing the threshold of violence.”
Writing/Righting Home
Lara, Dulcinea. New Mexico State University. “Righting Home: “Who will be the Guardian of the Key?”
Palacios, Agustin. Contra Costa College. “You Should Write Our Story”: Writing/Righting Richmond’s Community History from the Outside In.”
Romero, Mercy. Sonoma State University. “Salvage Futures: Camden's Brownfields.”
Soto, Lilia. University of Wyoming. “The Other Napa: Counter Narratives of the Napa Valley.”
Criminalizing Chicana/o Communities: Drugs, Mafia, and the Prison Pipeline
Espinoza, “Sonny” Richard. California State University, Los Angeles. “Ando Sangrando & Black Lives Matter: The Visual Documentation and Social Co-optation of Chicana/o and Law Enforcement Conflict.”
Portillos, Edwardo. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Gonzales, Juan Carlos. California State University, Fresno; Peguero, Anthony. Virginia Tech; Immekus, Jason. University of Louisville. “Revisiting the School to Prison Pipeline: Incarcerated Latinx Youth Experiences.”
Choice-Diaz, Anthony. Independent Scholar. “The Colonial Cop Workshop - Alternative Policing and Resistance under Direct Repression.”
Sanchez, Thomas. University of Nebraska, Omaha. “My Blood is Mexican, but My Heart is American”: Young Latino Immigrants' View of Their “Criminalization
Camacho, Angelica. University of California, Riverside. “Hispanic Moral Panics: The War on Drugs, Criminalization of Latin@s, and the Mexican Mafia.”
Voices of Resistance: Critical Perspectives on Citizenship and Socio-economic Rights
Garcia, Mary. Pitzer College. “Transnational Subjects and Human Rights in Ana Castillo's The Guardians.”
Cazares, Gabriela. California State University, Fullerton. “In the Shadow of the Prison: Mass Incarceration, Racial Targeting, and Familial Fragmentation in Migdalia Cruz’s El Grito del Bronx and Lourdes Santiago’s Outside the Wall: A Puerto Rican Women’s Struggles.”
Arellano Nez, Ana Linda. California State University, Fullerton. “Barrio Streets as War Zones: Indigeneity and Collective Resistance in Richard Montoya’s Water and Power.”
Roundtable: “White” Washing American Education: The New Culture Wars in Ethnic Studies
Sandoval, Denise M. California State University, Northridge.
Lopez-Garza, Marta. California State University, Northridge.
Aguilar-Hernández, José M. Cal Poly Pomona.
Moreno, Luis H. Bowling Green State University.
Roundtable: Publishing on Social Justice for Raza in the Age of Globalization: REGENERACIÓN TLACUILOLLI: UCLA Raza Studies Journal
Serrano Nájera, José Luis. California State University, Fullerton.
González Cárdenas, Elizabeth. California State University, Fullerton.
Mercado, Juan Pablo. University of California, Los Angeles.
Centanino, Araceli. University of California, Los Angeles.
Huante, Alfredo. University of Southern California.
Roundtable: Speaking of Food and Culture in times of War, Deportations, and Globalization
Chabram, Angie. University of California, Davis.
Abarca, Meredith. University of Texas El Paso.
Moreno, Melissa. Woodland Community College.
From Barrios to Pueblos: Interrogating Environmental Racism, Gentrification and Displacement in Chicanx/Latinx Communities
Gutierrez, Oscar. San Francisco State University. “Settlements of Renewal: Urban Agriculture and the Latinx Promise of Belonging.”
Castrejon, Jorge. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “(Un)Sustainable Community Projects: An Urban Ethnography in a Barrio in Las Vegas.”
Santillana Blanco, José Manuel. University of Minnesota. “Against Chemical Terrorism: Mexican and Chicana Women Fighting Against Environmental Racism in Kettleman City.”
Seed Sovereignty, Indigenous Autonomy, and AlterNative Strategies for Educational and Political Activism
Tezozomoc. South Central Farmers.
Valle, Gabriel R. California State University, San Marcos.
Peña, Devon G. The Acequia Institute.
Forging Identities, Forging Solidarities: Migration, Latinidad and Blackness
Steelman, Katherine. University of California, San Diego. “US MEDIAtions on Race in Tijuana and Haiti.”
Castaneda, Miguel. University of California, San Diego. “Mexican Americans, Racial Solidarity, and the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born.”
Gavin Bravo, Camila. University of California, San Diego. “Creating Community through Political Solidarity and Popular Culture: Chileans and Chicanxs.”
Cinelatinidades: Gender, Sexuality and Cinema in the Americas
Medrano, Megan. Trinity University.
Chavarria, Diana. Trinity University.
Marin, Cindi. Trinity University.
Discussant: Cantu, Norma. Trinity University.
Chair: Abreu-Torres, Dania. Trinity University.
Problematizing Chicana/o Studies in a Global Era
Calderon-Zaks, Michael. Santa Monica College. “Globalizing Chicano Studies: Obstacles in the Actual “Age of Globalization.
Brousseau, Marcel. University of Texas, Austin. “Rutas y Personajes: Critical Cartography of Migration as Theory and Practice in Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies.”
Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Starving for Justice: Spectacular Speech, the 1994 UCSB Hunger Strike, and the Struggle for Dignity.”
Circuits of cultural production: Music on the West Coast and the Gulf Coast
Cervantes, Marco. University of Texas, San Antonio. “Black and Brown Sounds in Tejas: Locating Cultural Afromestizaje in the Works of Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, and Bombasta.”
Habell-Pallan, Michelle. University of Washington, Seattle. “‘Buen Vivir’ with Chicas Rockeras: South East Los Angeles and the Downtown Boys/Malportado Kids.”
Gonzales, Gloria. University of Texas, San Antonio. “The women of the Tejano music industry.”
Navarrete Hunter, Yesenia. University of Southern California. “Con Tanta Luz en La Voz.”
Eradicating Physical and Symbolic Boundaries: Chicana/Latina Researchers Talk Back
Gaxiola Serrano, Tanya. University of California, Los Angeles. “Ni De Aqui, Ni De Alla: A Methodological Exploration of Borderlanders from Tijuana-San Diego.”
Morales, Socorro. University of California, Los Angeles; Mendoza, Sylvia. Palomar College. ”Using Platica Methodology to Explore Chicanx Youth Ratchet Subject Positions.”
Huante, Nancy. California State University, Sacramento. “Feelings of Passion, Fear, and Pain as a source of Empowerment in Research.”
Flores, Alma Itzé. Loyola Marymount University. “Platicando Entre Muxeres: Methodological Reflections of a Muxerista Portraitist.”
The (Dis)locations of Chicana/o Studies: The Varied Institutional Struggles to Build Intentional Academic Spaces
Vasquez, Irene. University of New Mexico.
Revilla, Anita. University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Tapia, Beatriz. East Los Angeles College.
Gradilla, Alexandro Jose. California State University, Fullerton.