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& Book Presentation
Conversatorio
FeaturingJohn Rechy UCLA Medal Recipient
Aldo Acuña Maldita Vecindad
Rolando “Roco” Ortega Maldita Vecindad
Charlene Villaseñor Black UCLA Department of Art History
Audrey Harris Contributor
Juanita Heredia Contributor
Sandra Ruiz Contributor
Ariel Tumbaga Contributor
November 14, 2019Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar RoomRoyce Hall 3064:00–6:00 pm
A reception and book signing will follow the presentationBooks will be available for sale
Sponsored by
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese
for the award-winning
The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader, 1974–2016Moderated by Héctor Calderón, Editor
The Aztlán Mexican Studies
Reader, 1974-2016
Edited and Introduced by
Héctor Calderón
The A
ztlán Mexican Studies R
eader, 1974-2016
Calderón
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Presswww.chicano.ucla.edu
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$19.95 ISBN 978-0-89551-169-0
Distributed by the University of Washington Presswww.washington.edu/uwpress
The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader,
1974-2016Edited and Introduced by
Héctor Calderón
The ongoing cultural and political connections between Chicana/o and Mexican history are the focus of The Aztlán
Mexican Studies Reader, 1974–2016. Edited and introduced by Héctor Calderón, this collection of essays makes a rigorous case for the contributions of Chicana/o studies to the trans national study of Mexico. Included with the thirteen previously pub-lished pieces are three that were commissioned for this collection.
The first essay sets the stage with a historical overview that relates how the Chicano movement was rooted in the soil of conquest and colonialism in Mexico. Subsequent essays discuss a range of topics that stress interconnections between Chicana/os and Mexicans: transborder issues such as immigration and labor; Chicana/o and Mexican fiction; femicide and racism in Mexico and their reverberations on both sides of the border; and the development of Mexican art forms—including muralism, cinema, and music—in Mexico and the United States.