http://naccs-tejas.org

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Conference Organizer: Jaime Armin Mejía, Ph.D., Texas State University, San Marcos Program Committee: Andres Aceves, Texas State University, San Marcos Sonia Arellano, University of Arizona, Tucson Tammy Gonzales, Texas State University Ana Juárez, Ph.D., Texas State University, San Marcos Christina Marroquin, Texas State University Sarah Olivas, Texas State University, San Marcos Sandy Pérez, Texas State University, San Marcos Juan Rodriguez, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin Richard Santos, Texas State University, San Marcos Janie Jaramillo Santoy, Western Governors University/Texas Tech University Paul Velázquez, Sánchez Elementary School, Austin, Texas Joseph Vigil, Texas State University, San Marcos Logo Designer: Pearl Hooks, Austin, Texas Website Designer /Webmaster: Janie Jaramillo Santoy Conference Sponsors: Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Provost Gene Bourgeois College of Liberal Arts, Dean Michael Hennessy College of Applied Arts, Dean Jaime Chahin College of Education, Dean Stan Carpenter Department of English, Chair Dan Lochman Hispanic Policy Network, President Michelle M. Lopez W. W. Norton, Doug Day, Representative The Rho Chapter of Omega Delta Phi Kappa Delta Chi Sorority, Inc. Career Ready Media Jaime Armin Mejía, Ph.D.

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This Is Us: Cómo Nos Ven, Cómo Nos Vemos

Changing Chican@ Identity in the 21st Century

2012 Tejas Foco Regional Conference of

The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies NACCS

March 1st, 2nd, and 3rd

On March 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, The 2012 Tejas Foco Regional Conference of The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) convenes, like in years past, to celebrate and promote Chicana/o Studies. This year, Texas State University, San Marcos is fortunate to host senior and junior scholars, writers, and artists from across Tejas as well as from beyond who have come together to share their scholarship, art, and knowledge of our culture with each other, the greater university community, and with the public. This year’s theme, “This Is Us: Como Nos Ven, Como Nos Vemos / Changing Chican@ Identity in the 21st Century,” has indeed drawn speakers and artists who address this theme from a wide variety of perspectives. The topics being addressed at this year’s conference extend beyond the conference theme to include issues important to us all during the early part of the 21st century. Besides live musical performances and readings by fiction writers and poets, participants and members of the university and local communities will be able to enjoy a dance with Conjunto Aztlán, from San Antonio, Tejas, performing. The scholarship of more than 200 conference participants in over 60 panel sessions, in the end, is what brings us together to celebrate the many perspectives which form the many varied aspects of who we are. The Tejas Foco conference begins on Thursday night, March 1st, in the LBJ Student Center's Ballroom with the screening of the impressive documentary film, ¿Cuándo te vere?, by Liz Colunga about the fate of many undocumented workers in the US who are separated from their family members in Mexico. On Friday, March 2nd, the conference once again picks up at the LBJ Student Center with a morning plenary session featuring noted scholars. This session is then followed by three concurrent sessions of panels, with a plenary luncheon in between. The evening brings an awards ceremony and ends with a dance with Conjunto Aztlán. On Saturday morning, March 3rd, the conference moves to Flowers Hall where participants will find a live musical performance, a film screening, and many more panel sessions, ending with a reading by poets & fiction writers honoring Texas State University Distinguished Alumnus Tomás Rivera.

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Conference Schedule

THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 Location — LBJ Student Center Ballroom

6:00PM

Bienvenida Reception. Welcome Address by Ana Juárez, Texas State University, San Marcos

6:15-7:30PM, THURSDAY Screening of ¿Cuando te veré? by Filmmaker Liz H. Colunga Special Roundtable: Immigration and the Role of Chicanas/os Liz H. Colunga, Filmmaker, University of North Texas, Denton Beto Calderon, University of North Texas, Denton Ana Juárez, Ph.D., Texas State University, San Marcos Antonio Arreguín-Bermúdez, Ph.D., California State University, Chico Paul Velázquez, Sánchez Elementary School, Austin, Texas FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 8:00AM – 9:00AM

Registration: LBJ Student Center, 3rd Floor Ballroom Foyer

PRIMERA ETAPA (SESSION 1) – FRIDAY, 9:00 – 10:15AM

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

Session 1.1 – LBJ Student Center Ballroom, 3rd Floor, 9:00 – 10:15AM Keith Gilyard, Ed.D., Distinguished Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University,

President of the National Council of Teachers of English David Montejano, Ph.D., Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

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10:15AM – 10:30AM BREAK SEGUNADA ETAPA (SESSION 2) – FRIDAY, 10:30 – 11:45AM Session 2.1 — LBJ Student Center Ballroom Performance and Workshop Wild Womyn Writers Sarah Rafael García and Joanna Saucedo Wild Womyn Writers provides a space for womyn to explore their creative

spirits, free themselves from societal restrictions and learn to embrace their natural instincts. Author Sarah Rafael García and musician Joanna Saucedo will present new collaborative Chicana works that weave in oral storytelling, spoken word, Son Jarocho and Americana music.

Session 2.2 — LBJ Student Center, room 3-14.1 (98) Callin’ It Like It Is: Transforming Gendered, Sexual and Heteropatriarchal

Violence in Chican@ Studies and Academic Institutions Maylei Blackwell, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles Marie “Keta” Miranda, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio Marta Cotera, Community Member & Independent Scholar Audrey Sylvestre, ConFem Antonia Castañeda, Ph.D., Independent Scholar Session 2.3 — LBJ Student Center, room 3-10.1 (53) Poetry Reading: Mujeres Morenas: How Three Latinas See

Themselves Workshop Title: Fingerprints of Identity Anjela Villarreal Ratliff, Educator, Austin, Texas Lydia Armendáriz, Educator, Austin, Texas Gloria Amescua, Educator, Austin, Texas Session 2.4 — LBJ Student Center, room 3-7.1 (29), 10:30 – 11:45 AM Exploring the Use of Chicano Literature in Culturally and Linguistically

Diverse Classrooms Roxanne Martinez, Texas A&M University – Kingsville Sandra Villarreal Montgomery, Texas A&M University – Kingsville Norma A. Guzmán Ph.D., Texas A&M University – Kingsville Session 2.5 — LBJ Student Center 3-6.1 (29), 10:30 – 11:45 AM Somos: Against All Odds… Alfonso Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus, University of Northern Colorado: “Testimonio de un

antiguo trabajador migratorio: el ambiente, el trabajo, la familia y el legado espiritual” Juan Rodríguez, Texas Lutheran University: “The Educational Journey of a Rascuache” Saúl Sánchez, Professor Emeritus, Laredo Junior College and Texas Lutheran University:

“Surcos de memoria: Recuerdos de un betabelero”

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Session 2.6 — LBJ Student Center 3-5.1 (83), 10:30 – 11:45 AM Immigration in Lived Experience and Theoretical Conceptualization Maricela Oliva, Ph.D. and Jessica Huerta, University of Texas at San Antonio,

“The Labyrinth of Becoming Collegian: The Texas Experience of DREAM ACT Students”

Jorge Valadez, Ph.D., Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, “Immigration and Global Justice”

Session 2.7 — LBJ Student Center 3-11.1 (30), 10:30 – 11:45 AM A Selena Ofrenda: From Biography and Memory to Reconstruction and

Installation Gloria P. Martinez-Ramos, Ph.D., Texas State University-San Marcos Joseph Kotarba, Texas State University-San Marcos Jonafa Banbury, Texas State University-San Marcos Session 2.8 — LBJ Student Center 3-13.1 (64), 10:30 – 11:45 AM “The Chicano Studies Network As Tehchihuiliztle (Remedy for Curing Pain

and Shame): A Socioeducational Model for Academic Equity” Jesus Cantu Medel, Museo Guadalupe Aztlan Andrés Guerrero, Ph.D. Jesse Esparza, Ph.D. Antonio González, Ph.D. Eleazar Flores Session 2.9 — LBJ Student Center 3-3.1 (54), 10:30 – 11:45 AM The Rhetoricity of the Center: New Understandings of Difference and

Diversity in Public Education Janie Jaramillo Santoy, Texas Tech University, Chair Yazmin Lazcano-Pry, Arizona State University, Tempe, “Documenting Citizenship at GateWay

Early College High School” Jana Fornario, Texas State University, San Marcos, “A Whole New World?: Reconciling High

School and College Experiences for Texas Mexican Students” Sarah Olivas, Texas State University, San Marcos, “Mitigating Social Differences: Using More

Than Logos to Negotiate the Middle Ground” Session 2.10 — LBJ Student Center 3-9.1 (83), 10:30 – 11:45 AM Cover Art, Film Subversions, and Celebrating Local History Cordelia Barrera, Ph.D., Texas Tech University, Chair Monica E. Montelongo, Texas Tech University, “Book (De)Construction: The Cover Art of

Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera and Chicana Identity Politics” Patricia Portales, University of Texas at San Antonio, “The Spitfire Signifier: Lupe Vélez’s

Feminist Subversions Amid Hollywood Era WWII Feature Films” Antonio L. Vásquez, Michigan State University, “The Voices of Experience: Celebrating Local

Chicana/o History in Travis County”

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Session 2.11 — LBJ Student Center 3-15.1 (100), 10:30 – 11:45 AM Identity Formation and Meaning Making of Self Monica Valadez, Texas State University, San Marcos Enrique Garcia, Texas State University, San Marcos Leticia Grimaldo, Texas State University, San Marcos Miguel A. Guajardo, Ph.D., Texas State University, San Marcos BREAK: FRIDAY, 11:45AM – 12:00AM

LUNCHEON PLENARY SESSION 12:00 – 1:30 PM, LBJ Student Center Ballroom This Is How We Change: Engaging Policies and Politics Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., Associate Vice-President for School Partnerships, Division of

Diversity and Community Engagement, and Director of the Texas Center for Educational Policy at the University of Texas at Austin

Patricia D. Lopez, Doctoral Candidate, Education Policy and Planning, The University of Texas at Austin; Research Associate, Texas Center for Education Policy

Antonio Gonzalez, President, Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project; “Latinos as a Change Agent in 2012 and Beyond”

BREAK: FRIDAY, 1:30 – 1:45PM

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TERCERA ETAPA (SESSION 3) – FRIDAY, 1:45 – 3:00PM Session 3.1— LBJ Student Center Ballroom Performance and Workshop Performance-Workshop: Son Jarocho Fandango Performance Son Armado with Joanna Saucedo, Alexis Herrera, and Peter Mendoz Son Jarocho, a tradition from the coastal state of Veracruz, Mexico, is the melding of African, Spanish & Indigenous cultures during the process of colonization and the practice of slavery in the Americas. During this time, Son Jarocho emerged as a form of survival & a resistance to colonial control. Son Jarocho is a popular education-based art form centered around community gatherings & celebrations known as Fandangos. The Fandango involves music, dancing, & poetry in the context of a communally created and shared space, with the tarima (a wooden dance platform) as the gathering point. Session 3.2 — LBJ Student Center 3-14.1 (98), 1:45 – 3:00PM Feminine Postcolonial Expressions: Somos, ¿y qúe? Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Moderator, University of Houston Carolina Alonso, University of Houston, “Representaciones Femeninas en el Teatro Chicano” Sarah Becker, University of Houston, “Can the New Mestiza Speak? Feminist Ideology and

Postcolonial Representations of the Chicana in Graciela Limón’s The Day of the Moon and The Memories of Ana Calderón”

Emily Bernate, University of Houston, “Escribiendo Santuarios” Cecilia Lara, University of Houston, “Women and Subalternity” Session 3.3 — LBJ Student Center 3-10.1 (53), 1:45 – 3:00PM Narrative/Poetry Readings Cipriano Cárdenas, The University of Texas at Brownsville Juan Antonio González, The University of Texas at Brownsville Javier Villarreal, Ph.D., Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi Session 3.4 — LBJ Student Center 3-5.1 (83), 1:45 – 3:00PM Diverse Approaches and Methodologies in the Study of Chicanas/os in

Education Carmen Guzman Martinez, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio, “Pedagogies of the

Home: A Phenomenological Analysis of Chicana/o Educational Experiences” Ester Garza, Texas A&M University, San Antonio, “Bilingual Teacher Narratives: An Interview

Study” Jesus Jaime-Diaz, University of Texas at San Antonio “Testimonios of Second Generation

Latina/o Students in Community College” Jo Ann Basaldua Trujillo, Texas State University, San Marcos “Home Pedagogies in a 1950s

Mexican Family: A Phenomenographical Tale of Resistance, Feminism, and Desire of a Ten Year Old Migrant Mexican Girl Wanting to Learn”

Armando L. Trujillo, University, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Movimiento Cultural Production and Education: The Case of Crystal City, Texas”

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Session 3.5 — LBJ Student Center 3-3.1 (59), 1:45 – 3:00PM El Pueblo Unido: Chican@ Methodologies of Resistance and Survival in

Anti-Chican@ Times Marcos J. Del Hierro, Texas A&M University, College Station, “Somos el 99%: Chican@

Responses to an Unequal (Occupied) Movement” Casie C. Cobos, Texas A&M University, College Station, “Como Nos Vemos: Resisting

Invisibility in the Classroom” Ayde Enriquez-Loya, Texas A&M, College Station, “Rhetorics of Translation and Survivance:

The Ethical Translation of Stories, Lands, and Bodies in the Chicano Poetry of Tino Villanueva”

Victor J. Del Hierro, Texas A&M, College Station, “Talking to Yourself: Storytelling Through the Inner Monologue in Daniel Chacon’s And the Shadows Took Him”

Session 3.6 — LBJ Student Center 3-13.1 (64), 1:45 – 3:00PM The Hollywood Race: Deconstructing the Essentialized Racial Images in

Media Julia Bancroft, Texas State University, San Marcos, Chair Octavio Pimentel, Ph.D., Texas State University, San Marcos, “Latino Looks: Racist Mexican

Representation in Television Commercials” Morgan Gross, Texas State University, San Marcos, “Same Dance Different Song: A Critical

Discourse Analysis of Moulin Rouge’s Portrayal of Ethnic Minorities, Women, and the Poor/Working Class”

Charise Pimentel, PhD, Texas State University, San Marcos, “Blindsided by Racism: A Critical Racial Analysis of The Blind Side”

Stalina Villarreal, Houston Community College, “Identity Through Chicano/a Poetry and Film: A Multimedia Influence from Both the United States and Mexico”

Session 3.7 — LBJ Student Center 3-6.1 (29), 1:45 – 3:00PM Pioneers of Chicano Literature Address Common Mainstream

Misconceptions Carrie Zamora, Texas State University, San Marcos, Chair Juanita Arellano, Texas State University, San Marcos, “Illuminating Truths and Facilitating

Progress” Valerie Enriquez, Texas State University, San Marcos, “Eliminating Misleading Stereotypes

through Literature” Gabriella Corales, Texas State University, San Marcos, “Mexican American Authors Clarifying

Misconceptions: This Is Who Society Perceives Us to Be, This Is Who We Are”

Session 3.8 — LBJ Student Center 3-11.1 (30), 1:45 – 3:00PM Comparing Factors for College Going and Academic Success: First

Generation vs. Non-First-Generation Hispanic College Students at a Large Public Research University

Michael E. Nava, Ph.D., Texas State University Taryn Ozuna, The University of Texas at Austin Charles Lu, The University of Texas at Austin

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Session 3.9 — LBJ Student Center 3-5.1 (83), 1:45 – 3:00PM Our Lady of Guadalupe-Tonantzin: A Symbol of Chicana Identity and

Catalyst for Social Justice Across Generations Brenda Sendejo, Southwestern University, Chair, “Spiritual Activism as Pedagogy: Three

Generations of Chicana Self-Making with Guadalupe-Tonantzin” Marta Cotera, Historian and Independent Scholar, “La Virgen as Feminista: How Guadalupe-

Tonantzin Saved Second Wave Feminism” Melissa Garcia, Southwestern University, “Don't Worry, M'ija, La Virgencita Is with You”: A

Chicana Activist’s Personal Narrative of Perseverance and Strength” Susana Contreras, Southwestern University, “Re-Imagining the Mestizaje of La Virgen:

Reflections of Choque in Chicana Cultural Identity and Activism”

Session 3.10 — LBJ Student Center 3-15.1 (100), 1:45 – 3:00PM Tomás Rivera Children’s Book Award: Examining Cultural Diversity and

Authenticity Mary Esther Huerta, Texas State University, San Marcos Jesse Gainer, Texas State University, San Marcos Oralia Garza de Cortés, Rivera Award National Committee Carmen Tafolla, Rivera Award Winning Author BREAK – FRIDAY, 3:00PM – 3:15PM CUARTA ETAPA (SESSION 4) – FRIDAY, 3:15 – 4:30PM Session 4.1: LBJ Student Center Ballroom Performance/Workshop, 3:15 –

4:30PM Panel-Workshop: Womyn and Social Justice: Creative Performance

Through the Art of Movement Movimiento Cihuatl: Giomara Bazaldua, Yasmina Codina, Genevieve Gonzales, Marisa

Gonzalez, Daisy Hernandez, Fabiola Ochoa Torralba

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FEATURED SESSION Session 4.2 — LBJ Student Center 3-5.1 (83), 3:15 – 4:30PM Encuentro de Chican@ Studies con Rhetoric and Composition Studies Keith Gilyard, Ed.D., Pennsylvania State University, Chair Elias Serna, University of California, Riverside, “Criminal Epistemologies: Raza Studies and

Composition in Arizona's Political Tempest” Joelle Guzman, University of California, Riverside, “Mestiza Approaches to Rhetoric and

Composition Studies” Ruben Mendoza, University of California, Riverside, “Portrait of the Artist-Educator as a

Rhetorician: Affect and the Production of Presence in Harry Gamboa's Pedagogico-Aesthetic Praxis”

Sonia Arellano, University of Arizona, Tucson, “Perpetuating Pedagogy: Examining the Effects of Public School Tracking on the Experiences of Chicanos in First-Year Composition Classes”

Ersula Ore, Ph.D., Arizona State University, Tempe (Respondent)

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Session 4.3 — LBJ Student Center 3-9.1 (83), 3:15 – 4:30PM La Guerrillera Project: Dando a Luz con La Magia del Arte Antonia I. Castañeda, Ph.D., Independent Scholar (Chair) Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez, Bihl Haus Arts and Our Lady of the Lake University,

“Sobreviviente: Gunaa Xoo Transforming Life” Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, Bihl Haus Arts, “Diidxa: Transforming Through the Weaving of

Words” Bianca Mari Sapet, P.E.A.C.E. Initiative, “Xochiketzal: Transforming Violence into Flowering

Scrolls”

Session 4.4 — LBJ Student Center 3-14.1 (98), 3:15 – 4:30PM The Sixties and The Chicana/o Civil Rights Movement Marie “Keta” Miranda, PhD, University of Texas at San Antonio, (Moderator) Maribel Valdes Hermosillo, University of Texas at San Antonio Gilda Trevino, University of Texas at San Antonio Mariana Cid de Leon, University of Texas at San Antonio Miguel Rosales, University of Texas at San Antonio Mario Castillo, University of Texas at San Antonio Jacob C. Jimenez, University of Texas at San Antonio

Session 4.5 — LBJ Student Center 3-10.1 (53) 3:15 – 4:30PM Readings by Fiction Writers: Christina Marroquin, Texas State University, Chair Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Author of The Klail City Death

Trip Series Antonio Arreguín-Bermúdez, Ph.D., California State University, Chico, Author of Miel

Quemada/Burnt Honey Rene Pérez, Austin, Texas, Author of Along These Highways Session 4.6 — LBJ Student Center 3-3.1 (59), 3:15 – 4:30PM A Different Chicano Identity: Protestantes, An Overlooked Segment of the

Population Arturo Madrid, Ph.D., Murchison Distinguished Professor, Trinity University, “Heretics and

Interlopers.” Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., UT-Austin: “Religion, Spirituality, and a Social Justice

Orientation.” Macarena Hernandez, Ph.D., UH-Clear Lake, “My First Book: La Biblia” Session 4.7 — LBJ Student Center 3-11.1 (30), 3:15 – 4:30PM Latino Students in Special Education Norma A. Guzmán, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, “Educator’s

Perceptions of Latinos in Special Education” Mary Ruth Fernandez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Our Lady of the Lake University,

“Educational Team Decisions and Latino Student Outcomes”

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Session 4.8 — LBJ Student Center 3-7.1 (29), 3:15 – 4:30PM The Stanislaus Asociación de Investigación Latina (SAIL) Program Iris Haapanen, Ph.D., California State University at Stanislaus Zenobia Ochoa, California State University at Stanislaus

Session 4.9 — LBJ Student Center 3-13.1 (64), 3:15 – 4:30PM Identifying the Dead Along the Border and Within the United States Cristina Figueroa-Soto and M. Katherine Spradley, Ph.D., Texas State University, San Marcos,

“Sexual Dimorphism: A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Mexican Populations” Ana Juarez, Ph.D., Texas State University, San Marcos, Respondent

Session 4.10 — LBJ Student Center 3-15.1 (100), 3:15 – 4:30PM The Role of Spanish Language on Self-Perception and Self-Image: Spanish

Proficiency, Spanish Speaking in Public, and Self-Identification in Literature

Javier Villarreal, Ph.D., Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, Chair Judith Marquez, Ph.D. and Victoria Contreras, Ph.D., University of Houston-Clearlake and

University of Texas-Pan American, “Latino Students’ Perceptions of Their Proficiency in Spanish”

Fred Loa, Ph.D., Baylor University, “Speaking Spanish in the Public Domain: Notions of Immigrant Self Image”

Edna Aguirre Rehbein, Ph.D., Texas State University, Round Rock, “Changes in Self-Identification in Chicano Literature”

BREAK – FRIDAY, 4:30 – 4:45PM QUINTA ETAPA (STAGE) 4:45-6:00PM Session 5.1—LBJ Student Center 3-9.1 (83), 4:45 – 6:00PM American Orange: The Toxic Legacy of Mission, Texas / A Story of the Gente Laura Perez, Owner and Producer, Alma Libre Films Iris Rodriguez, Activist and Researcher, XicaMedia / T.E.J.A.S. (Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services) Session 5.2 —LBJ Student Center 3-14.1 (98), 4:45 – 6:00PM Our Foods, Our Lives, Our Service Marisa C. Juárez, University of Texas at Austin, “We Are What We Eat: How Food Has Shaped

Identity for Modern Mexican Americans in South Texas” Selena Pasillas, University of Texas at San Antonio and Elizabeth de la Portilla, San Antonio

College, “Decolonizing Our Bodies: Looking Back Can Save Our Hearts” Irene Garza, University of Texas at Austin, “Fastening the Gunbelt: Chicana Labor and the

Economies of Service in the U.S. Military”

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Session 5.3 —LBJ Student Center 3-3.1 (59), 4:45 – 6:00PM Issues Surrounding the Identity of Chicanas and Chicanos Eric Ruiz Bybee, University of Texas at Austin, “Latino Whiteness and Identity in K-12 School

Pictures and Yearbooks” Kamala Platt, University of Texas at Pan American, “Historias of Conscience Against

Militarism” Valerie Martinez, University of Texas at Austin, “Latina Military Participation: An Assertion of

Cultural Citizenship” Session 5.4 —LBJ Student Center 3-6.1 (29), 4:45 – 6:00PM Paths to Bilingualism, Biculturalism and Biliteracy: A Critical View Stephanie Leafblad, Our Lady of the Lake University Marissa Young and Cassandra Chavez, Our Lady of the Lake University Mary Ruth Fernandez, Ph.D., Our Lady of the Lake University Session 5.5 —LBJ Student Center 3-7.1 (29), 4:45 – 6:00PM Collective Memory Missing in Action: Chican@ Memoirs and Museums Jesus Cantu Medel, Museo Guadalupe Aztlán Andres Guerrero, Ph.D., Museo Guadalupe Aztlán Session 5.6 —LBJ Student Center 3-13.1 (64), 4:45 – 6:00PM Indigenous Identity and Mexican American Education Maria Rocha, Indigenous Cultures Institute, (Moderator) Mario Garza, Ph.D., Indigenous Cultures Institute Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, MFA, University of Texas at Austin Lydia French, Ph.D., Houston Community College Session 5.7 —LBJ Student Center 3-15.1 (100), 4:45 – 6:00PM Open-Mike Session: Chicana/o Studies en Tejas Emilio Zamora, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Moderator Come exchange your views & ideas about Chicana/o Studies on

your campus.

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FEATURED SESSION

FRIDAY, 7:00PM-9:30PM — LBJ STUDENT CENTER BALLROOM, 3RD FLOOR Premios y Noche de Cultura y Baile Featuring Conjunto Aztlán The 2012 NACCS Tejas Fiction Book Award The 2012 NACCS Tejas Nonfiction Book Award Premio Letras de Aztlan Premio Estrella de Aztlán CONJUNTO AZTLÁN

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SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012 2nd Floor Foyer of Flowers Hall Registration: 8:00-9:00AM PRIMERA ETAPA (SESSION 1) – SATURDAY, 9:00 – 10:15AM Session 1.1 — Flowers Hall 224, 9:00 – 10:15AM (Re)defining Chican@ Identity through Critical Pedagogy: “Save Ethnic

Studies” Panel Discussion on the Future of Social Justice Education in Conservative Arizona and Tejas

Yolanda Sotelo, MAS Program at Tucson United School District Corina López, University of Texas at Austin

Session 1.2 — Flowers Hall 225, 9:00 – 10:15AM Dime con quien andas…. Una Platica about Identity in the 21st Century Norma Alarcón, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Norma E. Cantú, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio

Featured Session 1.3 — Flowers Hall 229, 9:00 – 10:15AM Musical Mestizaje Marie Keta Miranda, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio, “Zappa’s Moustache: Is This

Chicano Rock?” Marco Cervantes, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Squeezebox Poetics: Afromestizaje in

Esteban Jordan’s Accordion Conjunto Soul Performance” Alejandro Wolbert Pérez, University of California, Berkeley, “‘Al estilo taquachito’: Theorizing

Movement in Conjunto Dance”

Session 1.4 — Flowers Hall 226, 9:00 – 10:15AM Pedagogical Approaches That Work with Chican@s Gina Guzman and Brian Scott, The Phoenix Academy, San Marcos, Texas, “Alternative

Writing: Developing a Chicano/a Student’s Voice in Writing” Juanita Luna Lawhn, San Antonio College, “Writing-In Identity: Discovering History in a

Latino Attic” Christine Granados, University of Houston, Victoria, “Hecho en Tejas” Session 1.5 — Flowers Hall 227, 9:00 – 10:15AM Chicanas and The Changing of Identity Elizabeth G. Chapa, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, “Lucha, Lengua, Y Revolución:

Spiritual Awareness and Conocimiento in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints and Watsonville: Some Place Not Here”

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Cordelia E. Barrera, Ph.D., Texas Tech University, An Ecology of Healing: An Anzaldúan Reading of Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues”

V. June Pedraza, Ph.D., Northwest Vista College, “The Twenty-First Century Chicana: Who Are We and How Do We Proceed?”

Session 1.6 — Flowers Hall 228, 9:00 – 10:15AM The Politics of Ethnic Identity in Houston's Barrios Stephanie Arguera, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Fifth Ward and Denver Harbor: Black

and Brown Conflict, Solidarity, and Shared Oppression in East Houston” Grisel Cano, Ed.D. and James Ross-Nazzal, Ph.D., Houston Community College, “The

Construction of Mexican-American Political and Cultural Identities in Houston’s Barrios from 1909 to 2009”

Session 1.7 — Flowers Hall 252, 9:00 – 10:15AM Aspects of the Chicano Movement David Villarreal, University of Texas at Austin, “Rethinking the Chicano Marxist Legacy:

Putting Religion Back into Chicano History” Aaron E. Sánchez, Southern Methodist University: “Brown is Beautiful: Sexual Politics and

Poetics in the Texas Chicano Movement” José R. Flores, University of Texas at Pan American: “Rethinking Chicana/o Literature:

Mestiza/o Consciousness and Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper” Session 1.8 — Flowers Hall 254, 9:00 – 10:15AM La Voz del Pueblo Teresa Guerrero and Ashley Rosas, High Tech High, San Diego, California, “The Awakening:

Re-examining the American Dream” Patrick Holder, High Tech High, San Diego, California, “Developing Identity Through Project-

Based Learning” Manuel Paul López, High Tech High, San Diego, California, “It Takes a Village: Enriching

Student Learning Through Community-Based Inquiry”

Session 1.9: Flowers Hall, room 255, 9:00 – 10:15AM Latinas/os in Higher Education: Before and the Future Tina Villarreal, Texas State University, San Marcos, “Social Capital and the Road to Higher

Education for the Hispanic Student” Héctor Pérez, Ph.D., University of the Incarnate Word: “Professing Chicanismo in a Small,

Private University” Session 1.10: Flowers Hall, room 256, 9:00 – 10:15AM On the Border: Keeping Us from Ourselves by Ourselves George T. Díaz, CMAS Visiting Scholar, University of Houston, “On the Edge of the Law:

Mexican Americans in Federal and State Law Enforcement, 1870s-1941” Felipe Vargas, “Civil Disobedience as Healing: Undocumented, Unafraid, Unapologetic &

Unashamed!” Enrique Reynoso, Purdue University, “‘Levee-Barrier’: Tracking the Implications of Rhetorical

Maneuvers and the South Texas Border Wall”

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Session 1.11: Flowers Hall, room 341 (210), 9:00 – 10:15AM Screening of Harvest of Loneliness, and Q&A with Director,

Gilbert Gonzalez

SEGUNDA ETAPA (SESSION 2) – SATURDAY, 10:30 – 11:45AM Session 2.1 — Flowers Hall 224, 10:30 – 11:45AM Una Mezcla de Culturas: Written Experiences of Unlikely Chican@s Sarah Olivas, Texas State University, San Marcos, Chair Casie Moreland, Austin Community College, “The Value of Chican@ Voices: Pedagogy,

Practice, and Menchú in the First-Year Composition Classroom” Jacob Chavarria, Georgetown High School/Austin Community College, “Flea Markets and the

Corn Cups: Analysis and Application of Sandra Cisneros’ ‘Barbie-Q’” Aimee Cavazos, Georgetown High School/Austin Community College, “Reflections of My

Inner Chicana: Aspects of Language and Translation”

Session 2.2 — Flowers Hall 225, 10:30 – 11:45AM The Impact of Student Perceptions and Major Persistence of First-Year

Latino Males Manuel Gonzalez, The University of Texas at Austin Charles Lu, The University of Texas at Austin Jason Alemán, Texas State University, San Marcos, “PAPI: Understanding the Tejano Father

Hybrid Identity Through a Postcolonial Lens” Session 2.3 — Flowers Hall 226, 10:30 – 11:45AM Migrant Workers Away from the Frontera Sergio Martinez, Ph.D., Texas State University, Chair Yolanda Arauza, Ph.D., Minnesota State University, Moorhead, “From Seasonal Migrant

Farmworkers to Permanent Residents: Tejano Migrant Settlement in the Red River Valley of Minnesota”

Antonio Arreguín-Bermudez, Ph.D., California State University-Chico, Miel Quemada/Burnt Honey

Session 2.4 — Flowers Hall 227, 10:30 – 11:45AM The Future of Chicana/o Studies en Tejas Aaron Sanchez, Southern Methodist University, Moderator Victor Gomez, South Texas College Norma Cantú, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Anotnio

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Session 2.5 — Flowers Hall 228, 10:30 – 11:45AM Somos Buenos Ejemplos! Tejanas/os Safeguarding the Higher Education

Pipeline for All Students Lucy Guevara Vélez, University of Texas at Austin Rose Cano, University of Texas at Austin Joseph Lopez, Ph.D., University of The Incarnate Word Corina Zavala, University of Texas at Austin

Session 2.6 — Flowers Hall 229, 10:30 – 11:45AM Using Digital Media to Tell Our Stories Lisa Hernandez, St. Edwards University, “Women of Color Voices: Developing

ThisBridgeCalledCyberspace.com” Janie Jaramillo Santoy, Texas Tech University/Western Governors University, “Negotiating Her

Story in the Cyberspace: A Case Study of a Chicana Blogger” Noemi Martinez, Community Activist, “Telling My Story Using Zines” Session 2.7 — Flowers Hall 252, 10:30 – 11:45AM Pochos and Their Transformations of Pochos Isaac Chavarría, South Texas College and The Raving Press and Gabriel H.

Sánchez, The Raving Press, “De Pocho a Chicano, y Back: Poetry y Plática” Cruz Medina, University of Arizona, Tucson: “Changing Rhetoric of Pocho Identity with

Pochteca Memory” Session 2.8 — Flowers Hall 254, 10:30 – 11:45AM Mexico, the Border, and Education Steven Schneider, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Pan American, “Poetry-Art on the Border:

An Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Promote Literacy and Creativity” Roberto Pachecano, San Antonio, Texas, “Solitude in a Place Called Mexico” Marco Portales, Texas A&M, College Station, “A Mexican Revolution Research Trip and

Education in Texas”

Session 2.9 — Flowers Hall 255, 10:30 – 11:45AM Paths to Bilingualism, Biculturalism and Biliteracy: A Critical View Stephanie Leafblad, Our Lady of the Lake University Marissa Young and Cassandra Chavez, Our Lady of the Lake University Mary Ruth Fernandez, Ph.D., Our Lady of the Lake University Session 2.10 — Flowers Hall 256, 10:30 – 11:45AM Living Cementerios: Grave Markers, Memoir, and Chican@ Cultural

History Marie-Theresa Hernández, University of Houston, Discussant Ana M. Juárez, Texas State University, San Marcos and Jonathan Jarvis, Texas Archaeological

Research Lab, “Living Cementerios and Grave Markers: Fleshing out Chican@ Stories in Central Tejas”

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Roberto R. Calderón, University of North Texas, “Camposantos y Panteones: Silence, Memoir & Chicano History”

Session 2.11 — Flowers Hall, 341, 10:30 – 11:45PM Son Jarocho Performance — SonAnto SonAndo BREAK: SATURDAY, 11:45AM-12:00PM TERCERA ETAPA (SESSION 3): SATURDAY, 12:00 – 1:15PM

FINAL PLENARY SESSION

Session 3.1 — Flowers Hall, 341, 12:00 – 1:15PM Creative Writers-Poets: Homenaje a Tomás Rivera Jesse Gainer, Chair Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Ph.D. David Rice Juan Manuel Perez Juanita Luna-Lawhn Diana Montejano Tomás Q. Morin Carmen Tafolla Business Meeting: Flowers Hall, 229, 1:30-2:30PM Aaron E. Sanchez, NACCS Liaison for Tejas Foco, Moderator