2016 conference program - National Association for Ethnic Studies

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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
Thursday, March 17
Chavez
3:00-5:30 Check-in
Afternoon
1:00-2:15 Concurrent Session I
2:30-3:45 Concurrent Session II
4:00-5:15 Concurrent Session III
Evening
7:00-9:00 Opening Reception
Arizona State Museum
Friday, March 18
Student Union
8:15-11:30 & 1:00-5:00 Check-in
8:00-5:00 Exhibit Hall Open
Morning
8:30-9:45 Concurrent Session IV
10:00-11:30 Plenary Sessions
Afternoon
11:45-1:05 President’s Address
and Awards Luncheon
1:15-2:30 Concurrent Session V
2:40-4:25 Concurrent Session VI
4:35-5:50 Concurrent Session VII
Evening
6:00-10:00 Keynote Reception
Student Union Grand Ballroom
Saturday, March 19
Student Union, Chavez, CESL
8:15-11:30 & 1:45-3:00 Check-in
Morning
8:00-9:15 Concurrent Session VIII
9:25-10:40 Concurrent Session IX
10:50-12:05 Concurrent Session X
Afternoon
12:15-1:45 Brown Bag Plenary
1:55-3:10 Concurrent Session XI
3:20-4:20 Business Meeting
4:30-5:45 Concurrent Session XII
Evening
7:00-10:00 Closing Reception
NAES CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
David H. Golland, Governors State University (2014-16 Chair)
David Aliano, College of Mount St. Vincent
Natchee Barnd, Oregon State University
Maricela Demirjyn, Colorado State University
Jesus Jaime-Diaz, University of Arizona
Joon Kim, Colorado State University
Melvin Peters, Eastern Michigan University
Angela Spence-Nelson, Bowling Green State University
Joseph Sramek, Southern Illinois University
Ravi K. Perry, Virginia Commonwealth University (ex-officio)
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, University of Arizona Tucson (ex-officio)
NAES STAFF
Ms. Shabana Shaheen, Executive Director
On the cover: The 44th Annual Conference image design was created by Greg Mazen. Follow Greg on Twitter: @GregMazen.
The fence represents attempts to reject human community with borders and militarized power; the heart, a widely recognized
symbol of love, honors the spirit of social justice. The raised fist, historically a symbol of resistance, is used to express unity and
strength in defiance, and represents collective community. Herein, resistance as barbed wire is illustrated as the marriage of
social justice and community that converges and opens up new possibilities to break down borders with inclusive power.
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National Association for Ethnic Studies
44th Annual Conference
Mural image courtesy of artist Jerry Jordan
March 17-19, 2016
University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Resistance: Borders and Power, Social Justice and Community
The 44th Annual Conference of the National Association for Ethnic Studies includes proposals, papers,
workshops, roundtable discussions, film screenings, performances, and other media that interrogate
the meaning of 'resistance' in the 21st century and/or that highlight the increasingly bold electoral hate
campaigns and other forms of social injustices that continue to impact our diverse communities. NAES
is excited to host regional activists working against various threats to Ethnic Studies in Arizona, and
those involved in spreading the activism and scholarship within and between Ethnic Studies globally.
The program includes sessions that engage cultural, political, and community-based work, particularly
in the realm of migrant and indigenous rights. We welcome all attendees interested in presenting their
work, sharing experiences, and utilizing this conference to foster new and more effective forms of
activism and community self-empowerment.
Hosted by the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona and Pima
Community College, the conference in Tucson, AZ offers an ideal location from which to explore our
shared and unique issues, share knowledge, and build community. It is both borderlands and Indian
Country. The region is highly militarized and the site of fierce activism. Perhaps most poignantly,
Tucson and Arizona continue to be ground-zero for a well-publicized assault by the state against Ethnic
Studies.
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Officers
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Dr. Ravi K. Perry holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a M.A.
and Ph.D. from Brown University, each in political science. Dr. Perry is Associate Professor of Political
Science at Virginia Commonwealth University.
An expert on Black politics, minority representation, urban politics, American public policy, and LGBT
candidates of color, Dr. Perry is the editor of 21st Century Urban Race Politics: Representing
Minorities as Universal Interests, a book that discusses the efforts of African American, Latino and
Asian mayors to represent the interests of minorities in historically White cities in the United States.
His second book, entitled Black Mayors, White Majorities: The Balancing Act of Racial Politics, focuses on the challenges Black
mayors face in representing Black interests in majority White, medium‐sized cities in the state of Ohio. His third book,
published with his mother, is The Little Rock Crisis: What Desegregation Politics Says About Us. In it, Perry and Perry frame the
story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory. Over time, those memories – individual and
collective – have motivated Little Rockians for social and political action and engagement. To listen to the recorded, unscripted,
interviews of Black Little Rockians’ involvement in civil rights, visit here: http://library.msstate.edu/perry/
Perry’s most recent publication, “LGBT Politics and Rights through the Obama Era,” examines President Obama’s evolution on
the rights afforded LGBT (Black) Americans. Published in Donald Cunnigen and Marino Bruce’s Race in the Age of Obama, Vol.
2, Emerald Group Publishing, (with Joseph P. McCormick II), the chapter explores the intersection and race, sexuality and
American presidential politics.
Currently, Dr. Perry is writing a book that introduces the lives and campaigns of Black, and openly lesbian and gay elected
officials in the United States.
A member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Perry is President of the National Association for Ethnic Studies, and a member of
the Executive Council for the Urban Politics Organized Section and the Sexuality and Politics Organized Section of the American
Political Science Association. Perry is also a member of the Executive Council with the National Conference of Black Political
Scientists.
Previously, Perry was a member of the Board of Directors and Affiliate Equity Officer for the ACLU of Mississippi, and Dr. Perry
was also one of the first openly gay branch presidents of color in the history of the NAACP in Worcester, Massachusetts.
A blogger at Huffington Post and a proud feminist, Perry is a life‐long advocate for and with the LGBTQIA communities, the
globally oppressed and marginalized, and HIV and/or AIDS impacted persons everywhere.
Dr. Perry is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including being recognized as one of the Andrew Goodman
Foundation’s 50 “Hero Citizens;” Out Magazine’s “Hidden 105” and The Advocate’s “193 Reasons to Have Pride,” and “40 under
40.”
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More about Dr. Perry can be found at http://www.raviperry.com.
Irene Vernon, Vice President, is a Professor/Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department and the
Assistant to the Dean in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University in Fort Collins,
Colorado.
She is the author of numerous articles, book chapters and monographs on Native Americans and
HIV/AIDS, health disparities, trauma, social issues, and post-colonialism. Her Killing Us Quietly:
Native Americans and HIV/AIDS (University of Nebraska Press: 2001, ISBN 978-0803246683) is the first book published on
HIV/AIDS and Native Americans.
She is an affiliated member of the National Ethnic Studies Association, National Minority AIDS Council, National Institute of
Health Ad Hoc Committee, Colorado Public Health Association, and Colorado Minority Health Coalition.
She regularly conducts Ethnic Studies Program reviews and is a manuscript reviewer for the University of Nebraska Press,
Oklahoma University Press, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Wicazo Sa Review, and English Journal.
She has been a Co-PI on a number of grants that aim at community development and technical assistance for tribes. Her
current research interests have expanded beyond HIV/AIDS to include trauma literature.
Dr. Vernon’s extensive administrative skills as Co-Principal Investigator, Director, Chair, Associate/Assistant Dean and Provost of
Special Projects have resulted in expertise in budget, leadership, strategic planning, management, assessment/evaluation,
program review, recruitment, and fundraising.
She was one of the first Ethnic Studies Ph.D. graduates and successfully moved the Center for Applied Studies in American
Ethnicity (created in 1994) to the Department of Ethnic Studies in 2008.
Dr. Vernon received a B.A. in Native American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, M.A. in United States History
(emphasis in Native American History) from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of
California, Berkeley.
David Hamilton Golland, Treasurer, is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of History at Governors
State University in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, and Vice President of the Park Forest
Historical Society. He holds a PhD in United States History from the City University of New York and
an MA in American History from the University of Virginia. The author of Constructing Affirmative
Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,
2011), he has also published articles in California History, Perspectives on History, Critical Issues in
Justice and Politics, Claremont Journal of Religion, and Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y
el Caribe as well as a chapter in the forthcoming volume Race and Urban Communities: An
Interdisciplinary Approach (University of Akron Press, 2016). His current project, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur A. Fletcher
and the Conundrum of African-American Republicanism, is a biography of the Nixon/Ford/Reagan/Bush appointee who led the
United Negro College Fund and became known as the “father of affirmative action.”
Natchee Blu Barnd, Secretary, is assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies at
Oregon State University. Dr. Barnd earned a PhD and MA in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego, an MA
in American Indian Studies from UCLA, and a BA in both American Multicultural Studies and
Philosophy from Sonoma State University.
Natchee is a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar interested in the intersections between
ethnic studies, cultural geography, and indigenous studies. He teaches a range of comparative ethnic
studies and indigenous studies courses, with special interest in space, popular culture, contemporary Native visual art, and
cultural sovereignty. He also sits on the advisory council for Native American Longhouse Eena Haws at Oregon State University.
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Dr. Barnd is completing his first book, Inhabiting Indianness: Native Space and America for the First Peoples initiative through
Oregon State University Press. He has published journal articles with the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2010)
and the Yearbook of the Pacific Coast Geographers (2014), as well as contributed chapters to the edited volumes Teaching Race
in the 21st Century (2008) and Diversity in Disney Films (2013). Other research projects currently being developed include a
collaborative ethnopornography study of 1950s American men’s magazines, and pedagogies of engaged learning about race
and geography through a student-designed social justice tour of Corvallis, Oregon.
In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Natchee works with on-campus cultural centers, with a special emphasis on combining
scholarship, mentoring, and community building. He has recently written about his work in cultural centers in the anthology
Nexus: Complicating Community and Centering the Self (2015).
Ron Scapp, Immediate Past President, is the founding director of the Graduate Program of Urban
and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx where he is professor
of humanities and teacher education. He has served as director of program development at the
College, and acting executive director of Institutional Assessment and Strategic Planning. He was
President of the National Association for Ethnic Studies (2012-2015, Interim President, 2011). He is
also a member of the International Committee for Kappa Delta Pi and a member of United Federation
of Teachers policy board for the NYC Teachers Center. He has been a longtime fellow at the National Education Policy Center at
the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written on a variety of topics—from popular culture to education, from social and
political philosophy to art criticism. He was a visiting scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, 2014-2015.
His recent books include Managing to Be Different: Educational Leadership as Critical Practice (Routledge) and Living With
Class: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Material Culture, co-edited with Brian Seitz (Palgrave Macmillan). He has
collaborated with others on different projects, most notably with cultural critic and author bell hooks [sic]. He is currently
completing a book titled, Reclaiming Education: Moving Beyond the Culture of Reform (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan); and
is co-editor with Kenneth J. Saltman of the Routledge series, Positions: Education, Politics and Culture. He is editor of the
journal Ethnic Studies Review, and is a founding member of Group Thought, a philosophy collective based in Red Hook,
Brooklyn.
Jesus Jaime-Diaz, Graduate Student Representative, is from the rural community of Hermiston,
Oregon in the Pacific Northwest, with cultural roots in the regions of Nayarit & Durango Mexico. He is
currently a PhD candidate in Language, Reading & Culture with a minor in Mexican American Studies
at the University of Arizona, in the Department of Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies.
His previous research has focused on testimonio and critical ethnography as methodologies to
examine how second generation Latina/o students in community college use their lived experiences to serve as a catalyst to
“empower” them to pursue a higher education. His current research interest is focused on social class in education & racialized
tracking in contemporary schooling.
As a graduate student Jesus has assisted & taught lower & upper division undergraduate courses in Speech Communication,
Ethnic Studies, Mexican American /Bicultural Bilingual Studies and Critical Multicultural/ Language Minority Education at
Oregon State University, University of Tejas at San Antonio and at the University of Arizona.
He holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies and a BA with a double major in Ethnic Studies & Speech Communication from
Oregon State University. Jesus is also an AA and a GED recipient from Blue Mountain Community College in rural Northeastern
Oregon.
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Board of Directors
David Aliano
College of Mount Saint Vincent
Jesus Jaime-Diaz
University of Arizona
Susan Asai
Northeastern University
Joon Kim
Colorado State University
Natchee Barnd
Oregon State University
Kenneth P. Monteiro
San Francisco State University
Khalilah L. Brown-Dean
Quinnipiac University
Darnell L. Moore
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Marne L. Campbell
Loyola Marymount University
Ravi K. Perry
Virginia Commonwealth University
Craig Cook
Santa Barbara City College
Melvin T. Peters
Eastern Michigan University
Maricela DeMirjyn
Colorado State University
Ron Scapp
College of Mount Saint Vincent
David H. Golland
Governors State University
Irene Vernon
Colorado State University
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PROGRAM of ACTIVITIES
Thursday, March 17
1:00-2:15 Concurrent Session I
SESSION 1
Tucson Ethnic Studies: Continuing the Roots of Empowering Education
Chavez 205
María C. Federico Brummer, Tucson Unified School District
Nolan Cabrera, University of Arizona
Jessica Mejia, Pueblo High Magnet School
Raul Gonzalez, Pueblo High Magnet School
Alexandro “Salo” Escamilla, Tucson High Magnet School
Lorenzo Lopez , Tucson Unified School District
SESSION 2
Interrogating the meaning of victimization & resistance along the borderlands
Chavez 209
Gabriella Soto, University of Arizona
Jesus Jaime Diaz, University of Arizona
Abby Wheatley, University of Arizona
Gabriel Higuera, University of Arizona
Luminita Anda-Mandache, University of Arizona
SESSION 3
Mexican Immigrant Women in the United States: an Ethnic Group in the Midst of the
Politics of Production and Reproduction
Chavez 211
Sophie S. Alves, University of Arizona
Anna Ochoa O’Leary, University of Arizona
Maria Jose Mojardin-Lopez, University of Arizona
Stephanie Ruiz Morales, University of Arizona
2:30-3:45 Concurrent Session II
SESSION 4
Counting Indigeneity: Borders, Nations, and Homelands
Chavez 205
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, University of Arizona
Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, University of Arizona and University of Waikato
Maria Molina, Calpolli Teoxicalli and Arizona State University
SESSION 5
Creative Arts and Linguistic Resistance Under Pressure and Pain
Chavez 211
Katja Frimberger, University of Glasgow
David Gramling, University of Arizona
Lyn Ma, Clyde College
Maria Grazia Imperiale, University of Glasgow
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Thursday, March 17 (Continued)
Concurrent Session II (Continued)
SESSION 6 Problematizing state sanctioned discourses in the victimization of border crossers: A
dialogue on informal politics and agency in the borderlands
Chavez 209
Gabriella Soto, University of Arizona
Jesus Jaime Diaz, University of Arizona
Abby Wheatley, University of Arizona
Gabriel Higuera, University of Arizona
Luminita Anda-Mandache, University of Arizona
3:00-5:30 Check-in
Outside Chavez 204
4:00-5:15 Concurrent Session III
SESSION 7
Grassroots Activism: Pedagogy, Affirmative Action, and Xenophobia
Chavez 205
Natchee Barnd, Oregon State University, Chair
Affirmative Action in the Building Trades: Arthur Fletcher Comes to Tucson, 1969-1970
David H. Golland, Governors State University
Proposition 187 Generation: Reflecting On My Activism and Pedagogy In Oxnard, California, 1994-2014
Luis Moreno, Independent Activist
La Lucha Sigue! One Hundred Years of Anti-Immigration Sentiment Against Chican@s/Latin@s in the
United States; Racial Discrimination, Legislature, and Donald Trump
Daisy Herrera, CSU Los Angeles
Progressive Power Activist Training
Channel Powe, Balsz School District/Arizona School Board Association/The Phoenix Women's
Commission
SESSION 8
Schooling via White Innocence
Chavez 209
Rick Orozco, University of Arizona
Jesus Jaime-Diaz, University of Arizona
SESSION 9 ROUNDTABLE: Indigenous People at the US-Mexico Borderland: Challenges for Ecological
Restoration, Governance, and Environmental Justice
Chavez 211
Rachel Starks, University of Arizona
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Thursday, March 17 (Continued)
7:00-9:00 Opening Reception
Arizona State Museum Lobby, 1013 E. University Blvd.
Blessing by Nyona Smith, Poetry of Resistance
SESSIONS 10-11: Cultural Performances
Dunham Technique: Corporeality of Etiquette and Ritual Lecture Demonstration Workshop
Zari Le’on, Artist Scholar
Resistance with Song: Music for the Movement
Erin Johnson, Artist and Advocate
Friday, March 18
8:00-10:00 Light Breakfast
8:00-5:00 Exhibit Hall Open
Outside Chavez 204
Student Union San Pedro
8:15-11:30 Check-in
Student Union Lobby
8:30-9:45 Concurrent Session IV
SESSION 12 Roundtable: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Not Broken, But an Illicit Treaty
Chavez 211
David Cid, University of Arizona
David Sanchéz, Brown Berets
SESSION 13
Ensuring Ethnic Education in Academia and Community
Student Union Tucson
Maricela DeMirjyn, Colorado State University, Chair
Academic Aspirations of Undocumented Latino Students
Griselda Madrigal Lara, Sonoma State University
Learning from Community-Based Healing: Decolonization, Spiritual Activism, and Hope
Mara Chavez-Diaz, University of California, Berkeley
Making Black Lives Matter on an Historically White Campus: Movement Teaching and Student Activism
Emily Drew, Willamette University
Developing Networks of Advocacy: Educators as Gatekeepers for Undocumented Students in Arizona
Cynthia Carvajal, University of Arizona
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Friday, March 18 (Continued)
Concurrent Session IV (Continued)
SESSION 14
Fighting for Our Voices: Politics, Schools, Religion, and the Pen
Student Union Catalina
Joon Kim, Colorado State University, Chair
Bible-Belt Christians In-tolerance to 21st Century Refugees
Cheryl Jones, Jackson State University
The 2016 Presidential Election and the Republican Party: How the Targeting of Minorities Increased
Candidate Popularity
Donna Taylor, University College London
The Battle Against Native American Indian Mascots in Nebraska Public schools
Claude Louishomme, University of Nebraska – Kearney
Using Diaries and Private Papers to Further Probe Ethnic and National Identity Formation: The Historical
Case Study of Nineteenth-Century Scottish Imperialists in Colonial India
Joseph Sramek, Southern Illinois University
SESSION 15 Institutionalizing Ethnic Studies in Arizona Panel I
CC Amethyst ∗
Anna Ochoa O'Leary, University of Arizona
Donna Thompson, Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Leo Killsback, Arizona State University
A Tohono O’Odham Invocation and Welcoming Remarks will open this session. Coffee, tea, and pastries
will be served.
SESSION 16
Theoretical, Rhetorical, and Political Influences of Community Resistance
Student Union Santa Cruz
Melvin Peters, Eastern Michigan University, Chair
A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Admissions Requirements at Land Grant Institutions
Angie Winkle, Washington State University
Dangers of Misguided Political Rhetoric in Our Communities
Frank Bradford, Mississippi State University
Stop the Invasion! The Misdirection of Anti-Immigration Policies On Latinos; the Emergence of
Community Resistance, Si Se Puede Social Movement and Ethnic Politics
Arturo Zepeda, CSU Los Angeles
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Pima Community College, Downtown Campus, 1255 N. Stone Ave.
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Friday, March 18 (Continued)
Concurrent Session IV (Continued)
SESSION 17
Representation of Us All: Exploring Media, Gender, and Indigenous Populations
Student Union Rincon
David Aliano, College of Mount St. Vincent, Chair
Why We Miss An Economics of Ethnic Equality
Enrico Beltramini, Santa Clara University
We Are Still Here! Native American Representation in the Media
Autumn Rose Williams, Virginia Commonwealth University
Immigrant Indigenous Latin American Youth "Transborder" Work
David Barilla Chon, University of Washington, and Ana Gabriela Kovats, Claremont Graduate
University/San Diego State University
SESSION 18
Ethnic Modes of Movement: Immigration, Migration, and the Homeland
Student Union Santa Rita
Natchee Barnd, Oregon State University, Chair
We Are All Our Own Gods”: La Mujer Obrera (Re)framing the Transnational in El Paso
Claire M Massey, Saarland University
U.S. Biopolitical Geographies of Migrant Containment
Rebecca Fowler, Washington State University
The Racialization of Central American Migrant Children in Murrieta, California
Sara Aguirre, UC San Diego
10:00-11:30 Plenary Sessions
Session 19: The Arizona Plenary
Student Union South Ballroom
Octaviana V. Trujillo (Yaqui), Northern Arizona University
Anna Ochoa O'Leary, University of Arizona
Keith James (Onondaga), University of Arizona
Tani Sanchez, University of Arizona
Wendy Cheng, Arizona State University
Session 20: Institutionalizing Ethnic Studies in Arizona Panel II
CC Amethyst ∗
An Nguyen, Northern Arizona University
Marlon M. Bailey, Arizona State University
Jessica Pacheco, Pima Community College/University of Arizona
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Pima Community College, Downtown Campus, 1255 N. Stone Ave.
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Arizona Plenary Speakers
Octaviana V. Trujillo (Yaqui), Ph.D., is founding chair and professor of the department of Applied
Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University (NAU) and teaches courses on Tribal Nation
Building. A primary focus of her work as a former tribal leader has been developing programs that
take advantage of her academic and professional experience. Dr. Trujillo is the Co-PI (outreach) on
the National Cancer Institute, U54- funded Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention. The
major goal of this project is to alleviate the unequal burden of cancer among Native Americans of the
Southwest through research, training and outreach programs that are collaborative with the
communities they serve. Her recent publication, “A Perspective on Diabetes from Indigenous Views” in Fourth World Journal
was collaboration between university scholars and traditional-knowledge scholars.
Dr. Trujillo is also the NAU research, education and training co-director of the Center for American Indian Resilience (CAIR).
CAIR NIH R25 is a partnership with University of Arizona, College of Public Health, to explore resiliency to reduce American
Indian health disparities. Throughout her professional career she has been involved with education, health, social services, and
cultural enhancement programs in conjunction with the communities themselves, the tribal government entities, and higher
education institutions. Professor Trujillo, the National Council for Science and Environment and American Indian Higher
Education Consortium have partnered to develop and augment Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) faculty knowledge and
skills in climate research, education, and community engagement through increased awareness of climate change learning
materials and enhance student learning in TCU science courses and academic programs. Additionally, she is the Co-PI on her
recent National Science Foundation TUES grant “Southwest Native Lands Integrated Curriculum.” The aims of the project is to
increase the success rate of Native American students majoring in the social sciences in applications of math and science
concepts to understand and identify solutions to authentic problems.
Dr. Trujillo has extended this professional focus into the international arena; with the National Institutes of Health funded P37
“Native Americans Exploring Global Health Disparities” project. NAU proposes to provide short-term global research training
opportunities for qualified Native American students and others who are underrepresented in the life, social, and health
sciences. The results of this project will not only increase Native American participation in health sciences, but provide these
students with a broad global perspective on potential solutions to health disparities that they can apply to their future careers
in the United States. Professor Trujillo serves on local, national and international governing boards, including the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). The committee helps shape U.S. policies that improve the
environment and health conditions of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Dr. Anna Ochoa O'Leary, associate professor and head of the department of Mexican American Studies
at University of Arizona-Tucson, received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Arizona.
Her dissertation, “Investment in Female Education as an Economic Strategy among U.S.-Mexican
Households in Nogales, Arizona,” was supported by NSF funding. Since 2002, she has taught a range of
classes for the Department. Currently, she teaches two graduate classes, Mexican Migration, and the
Feminization of Migration, and an undergraduate class, Latin American Migration and the Remaking of
the U.S.
She has a textbook to her credit, a Chicano Studies textbook based on her teaching Overview of Mexican
American Studies (MAS 265), which was published in 2007 by Kendall Hunt Publishing. More recently, she co-edited
Unchartered Terrain: New Directions in Border Research Method and Ethics (University of Arizona Press, 2013) and is editor of
Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of their Experiences (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press,
2014).
Dr. O'Leary is a 2006-2007 Fulbright Scholar for research on repatriated migrant women, and Public Voices “Thought Leader”
Fellow for 2014-2015.
Her current research and teaching interests continue to focus on the education, culture and urban politics of Mexican/U.S.Mexican populations, the political economy of the U.S.-Mexico border, and gender issues. Her community activities include
participation in several non-profit community-based groups, such as the Coalición de Derechos Humanos and Fundación
México. Description of her scholarly work and many of Dr. O'Leary's publications can be found at her faculty webpage at:
http://oleary.web.arizona.edu/
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Dr. Keith James (Onondaga) received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Organizational Behavior from
the University of Arizona. He is currently Department Head of American Indian Studies at the
University of Arizona. He has previously had positions at four other major U.S. universities, as well as
visiting appointments with six foreign higher education institutions, and he served for two years as a
Program Officer for the National Science Foundation. His scholarly work is on Indian and indigenous
community development; creativity and innovation in the workplace; community and organizational
sustainability; organizational cyber and physical security; and social-cultural influences on work and
life outcomes. https://ais.arizona.edu/users/keith-james
Dr. Tani Sanchez, Associate Professor of Afrikana Studies, University of Arizona-Tucson, is primarily
interested in racial representations in the media and in the study of African American history and
culture. She worked for a number of years as an editor, broadcast journalist and as a media
information specialist. She is also the first president of the Tucson Chapter Afro-American Historical
and Genealogical Society (founded by Gloria Smith) and has served as a State President of the National
Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. She has a doctorate in Comparative Cultural and Literary
studies; her masters degree focused on visual culture/art history while her undergraduate studies
included Radio and Television.
She has lectured in Tucson and other cities on Black history, racial representations in film, and on
African American family history and genealogy. Her wide-ranging background in broadcast and written
journalism as well as in public affairs has included overseas assignments in the U.S. Army and a stint in
the Arizona National Guard. Her academic writings have been published in two anthologies; she has
created political videos and has written and edited books and newsletters for community based associations.
She believes, “It is especially important for people to be educated in Africana studies subjects because our everyday lives are
heavily influenced by race, racism and the impact of centuries of colonialism. However, many people are not exposed to the
insightful types of analysis that comes from the viewpoint of the subjugated. Some students believe learning about race and
the history of it in America perpetuates racism. I sometimes hear them say ‘if you just don’t talk about it, it will go away’ or
they say discussing racial history creates racism and bad feelings. But if racial problems and their origins are simply ignored,
long-standing continuing oppression will persist. Many will continue to perceive ordinary, everyday discriminatory practices as
normal, not realizing how they manifest. They won't understand the impact on their lives or how we can all, regardless of race,
participate in something that is oppressive. The disparity in wealth among races is just one of many statistics clearly indicating
something is clearly out of balance! We need black theoretical perspectives and a more complete history factored into our
learning.
http://africana.arizona.edu/people/sanchez-tani-d
Wendy Cheng is assistant professor of Asian Pacific American studies and justice and social inquiry in
the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on race and
ethnicity, comparative racialization, critical geography, urban and suburban studies, and diaspora. Her
book, The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of
Minnesota Press, 2013) develops a theory of regional racial formation through the experiences and
perspectives of residents of majority nonwhite, multiracial suburbs, and won the 2014 Book Award
from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Asia and Asian America. Her coauthored book,
A People's Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Pulido and Laura Barraclough; University of California
Press, 2012), for which she was also the photographer, is a guide to sites of alternative histories and struggles over power in Los
Angeles County. Cheng is a founding member of Arizona Critical Ethnic Studies and the Arizona Ethnic Studies Network. She was
recently named a Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2016 Emerging Scholar and is the recipient of the 2016 Early Career
Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.
https://sst.clas.asu.edu/content/wendy-cheng
Francisco J. Galarte, PhD, is a professor of Gender & Women's Studies at University of Arizona. Dr.
Galarte was born and raised in Brawley, California. He holds a Bachelor's degrees in Chicano/Latino
Studies and Political Science from UC Irvine, a Master's Degree in Educational Policy Studies from the
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and recently graduated with his PhD in Educational Policy
Studies with minors in Latina Latino Studies and Gender and Women's Studies from the University of
Illinois Urbana Champaign. He is currently working on a book manuscript based on this dissertation
entitled, "El Sabor del Amor y del Dolor: Affect, Violence and the (Trans)Body in the Chican@ Historical Imaginary". His hero is
Chavela Vargas and he loves listening to Morrissey. His research interests are in Chicana/o Studies, Queer Studies, Affect
Studies and Transgender Studies.
https://gws.arizona.edu/%5Buser/francisco-j-galarte-phd
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Friday, March 18 (Continued)
11:45-1:05 President’s Address and Awards Luncheon
Student Union South Ballroom
Natchee Barnd and Joon Kim, Awards Committee Co-Chairs
Ravi K. Perry, President
Ticketed Event
1:00-5:00 Check-in
Student Union Lobby
1:15-2:30 Concurrent Session V
SESSION 21 Teach-In: "Putting Up Resistance to Sociopolitical Injustice & Ethnic Hatred: Boots Riley,
The Coup & Underground Hip Hop"
Student Union South Ballroom
Melvin Peters, Eastern Michigan University
SESSION 22
Mai´z to Corn: The South-North Nerve of Indigenity
Student Union Santa Cruz
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, University of Arizona
Michael Kotutwa Johnson, University of Arizona
Keith James, University of Arizona
SESSION 23 We have voices too: A discussion on the national immigrant rights movement from
immigrant youth in Tucson, AZ
Student Union Rincon
Ana Hernandez, Scholarships A-Z
Grecia Rivas, Western New Mexico University
SESSION 24
Reclaiming Indigenous Influences
Student Union Santa Rita
Joon Kim, Colorado State University, Chair
Problematic Pedagogy: Examining Cultural Competency and Native American Representations in 4th
Grade Classrooms
Valentin Sierra, UC Davis
Reclaiming Indigeneity Amongst Chicano Prison Inmates
Anna Diaz Villela, UC Irvine
Shooting Back: Reversing the Dominant Gaze and Indigenous Self-Representation
Shelley Newman, Western Washington University
Indigenous Healing Reclamation Arts: Reclaiming Sacred in the 21st Century
LisaNa Red Bear, University of Waikato
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Friday, March 18 (Continued)
Concurrent Session V (Continued)
SESSION 25
Music, Art, and Film as Healing Ethnic Activism
Student Union Tucson
Joseph Sramek, Southern Illinois University, Chair
The Art of Social Movements and Intersectional Activism by Chicanas/os and Latinas/os
Maricela DeMirjyn, Colorado State University
Representations of Immigration in Disney Films
Maria Amon, UC Irvine Postdoctoral Fellow
Espiritualidad en La Frontera: Rebirthing of Mestizo and Indigenous Folk Healing Practices for Fronterizos
in Psychotherapy
Steve Pereira, New Mexico State University
Music as Resistance Among Japanese American Incarcerees of World War II
Susan Asai, Northeastern University
SESSION 26 Examining the Social Construction of Race in the Americas: Distinctive Systems of Social
Control
Student Union Santa Cruz
David Aliano, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Jesus Jaime-Diaz, University of Arizona
Amanda LeClair-Diaz, University of Arizona
Amanda Holmes, University of Arizona
Tony Jamal Lee, College of Mount Saint Vincent
SESSION 27 Institutionalizing Ethnic Studies in Arizona: A Workshop to Collectively Craft an
Articulation Taskforce (ATF)
CC Amethyst ∗
Francisca James Hernández, Pima Community College
Rosalía Solórzano, Pima Community College
Presentations, a Q&A, and a ceremony will follow this event.
∗
Pima Community College, Downtown Campus, 1255 N. Stone Ave.
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Friday, March 18 (Continued)
2:40-4:25 Concurrent Session VI
SESSION 28 Film Series I: BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez: The Long Term Impact of the Black Arts
Movement and Ethnic Studies
Student Union South Ballroom
Neal Lester, Arizona State University
This searing portrait of the pioneering poet and activist Sonia Sanchez has shown at sold-out screenings at festivals across the
country, and captured the Audience Award for Best Documentary at BlackStar Festival and Programmers Award at the Pan
African Film Festival.
With appearances by Questlove, Talib Kweli, Ursula Rucker, Amiri Baraka, Haki Madhubuti, Jessica Care Moore, Ruby Dee,
Yasiin Bey, Ayana Mathis, Imani Uzuri and Bryonn Bain, the 90-minute documentary examines Sanchez's contribution to the
world of poetry, her singular place in the Black Arts Movement and her leadership role in African American culture over the last
half century.
SESSION 29 Immigrant Mothers with Citizen Children: Rethinking Family Welfare Policies in
Transnational Era
Student Union Rincon
Brenda Picasso and Miranda Jones, University of Arizona
SESSION 30 Cultural Performance: Reclaiming Voice and Identity: Critical Reflection and Release
Through the Art of Spoken Word
Student Union Tucson
Leilani Clark, Independent Scholar and TUSD Ethnic Studies Alumna
SESSION 31 Interrogating the effects of language abolishment: A cross-regional examination through
a theory of linguistic apartheid
Student Union Catalina
Mary Carol-Combs, University of Arizona
Jesus Jaime-Diaz, University of Arizona
Ana Christina DaSilva Iddings, University of Arizona
David J. Gramling, University of Arizona
SESSION 32 Film Series II: 9-Man: A Streetball Battle in the Heart of Chinatown
Student Union Santa Cruz
Ursula Liang, Independent Scholar
9-MAN uncovers an isolated and unique streetball tournament played by Chinese-Americans in the heart of Chinatowns across
the USA and Canada. Largely undiscovered by the mainstream, the game is a gritty, athletic, chaotic urban treasure traditionally
played in parking lots and back alleys. A 9-Man tournament grew in the 1930’s, at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment and laws
forced restaurant workers and laundrymen to socialize exclusively amongst themselves. Today it’s a lasting connection to
Chinatown for a dynamic community of men who know a different, more integrated world, but still fight to maintain autonomy
and tradition.
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Friday, March 18 (Continued)
Concurrent Session VI (Continued)
SESSION 33
Intersectional Activism: Students, Movements, and Culture
Student Union Santa Rita
David Aliano, College of Mount St. Vincent, Chair
Our Revolution Will Be Televised—and Live Tweeted: The Resurgence of Student Activism
Dominique Scott, University of Mississippi
The Black Lives Matter Movement and Why the Response of All Lives Matter is Misleading
Scott Loken, Independent Scholar
Inside the Ethnic Studies Studio: Student Activism and Hip Hop Pedagogy
Roderick Labrador, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Marking Our Land: Placename Signs and Indigenous Reclamation Projects
Natchee Barnd, Oregon State University
4:35-5:50 Concurrent Session VII
SESSION 34 The Campaign to Promote Ethnic Studies (CPES) Initiative
Student Union Rincon
Aurora Villon, El Rancho USD
Enrique Murillo, CSU San Bernardino
Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Long Beach Ethnic Studies Program
SESSION 35 In Lak Ech: The Xican@ Paradigm - Towards an Indigenous Epistemology
Student Union Tucson
Jose Maldonado, Los Angeles Mission College / XITO Califas
Guadalupe Carrasco, XITO Califas
Elias Serna, UC Riverside / XITO Califas
Johnavalos Rios, UC Riverside / XITO Califas
Tolteka Cuauhtin, XITO Califas
SESSION 36 Roundtable: The State of Ethnic Studies
Student Union South Ballroom
Ravi K. Perry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Ron Scapp, College of Mount St. Vincent
Kenneth P. Monteiro, San Francisco State University
SESSION 37 Creating an APA Studies Program at the University of Arizona: Discussion, Strategy &
Action
Student Union Santa Cruz
Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante, University of Arizona
Matthew Matera, University of Arizona
Daisy Rodriguez-Pitel, Pima Community College
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Friday, March 18 (Continued)
Concurrent Session VII (Continued)
SESSION 38
Diverse Modes of Resistance: Politics, Education, Media, and Art
Student Union Santa Rita
Joseph Sramek, Southern Illinois State University, Chair
The Effect of Constitutional Amendments on Multiple Indicators of Governance
Jesiel Díaz-Colón, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
Teacher Education as Form of Resistance: Insights from Gaza, Palestine
Mariam Attia, Durham University, UK
Nazmi Al-Mazri, Islamic University of Gaza
Katja Frimberger and Maria Grazia Imperiale, University of Glasgow
Media Representations and Retrospectives of Ferguson
Kelly Sharron, University of Arizona
Evolving Controlling Images in Contemporary Film: The Jezebel/Mammy Hybrid
Mark Beeman, Northern Arizona University
Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., Northern Arizona University
Marta Soledad Serpas-Guardado, Northern Arizona University
SESSION 39 Talking Circle: Developing a Holistic Decolonization Praxis: Healing, Leadership and
Activism in Education
Student Union Catalina
Heidi M. Coronado, California Lutheran University
Laura Maldonado, California Lutheran University
Andrea Cruz, California Lutheran University
6:00-10:00 Reception
Student Union Grand Ballroom
Session 40: Keynote Address
Che Gossett
Che Gossett is a Black genderqueer archivist and activist who works to excavate queer of color AIDS
activist and trans archives. They have contributed to Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the
Prison Industrial Complex and BCRW’s Scholar & Feminist Online and Queer Necropolitics. The
recipient of the 2014 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award from the American Studies Association Women’s
Committee, a Radcliffe research grant from Harvard University and the 2014 Sylvia Rivera Award in
Transgender Studies from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at the City University of New York,
they are currently working on a biography of queer Japanese American AIDS activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya.
Che was a member of the 2013 Archivists and Librarians Delegation to Palestine and recently
presented about legacies of black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle at the Bodies in Public
conference at the American University of Beirut. Che also was a presenter at the Black liberation
workshop at the 2014 National Students for Justice in Palestine conference.
Session 41: Floricanto/Spoken Word
Sarah Gonzalez, Tucson Youth Poetry Slam
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Saturday, March 19
8:00-10:00 Light Breakfast
Outside Chavez 204
8:15-11:30 Check-in
Student Union Lobby
8:00-9:15 Concurrent Session VIII
SESSION 42 Border Discourses, Border Lives
Student Union Rincon
Francisco Tamayo, CSU Northridge
Rebecca Fowler, Washington State University
Rory Ong, Washington State University
SESSION 43
Reflecting on our Cicatrices: A Collaborative Testimonio through Theory of El Pelado
Student Union Santa Cruz
Zandro Emiliano Lerma, Oregon State University
Jessie Leach, Oregon State University
Jesus Jaime­Diaz, University of Arizona
SESSION 44
Confronting Pushback: Self Acclimation, Psychology, and Curricular Development
Student Union Tucson
Angela M. Spence-Nelson, Bowling Green State University, Chair
Holding Patterns: Curricular and Structural Expansion among Chicana/o and Ethnic Studies Programs in
Higher Education
Dee Hill-Zuganelli, University of Arizona
White Teacher, Know Thyself: Improving Anti-Racist Educator Praxis through Racial Identity
Development
Jamie Utt, University of Arizona
AZTECS Who are the Mexica People? What is the Origin tf the Mexica People? Why are the Mexica
People Important Today?
J Carmen Tirado-Paredes, University of Arizona
Examining the Impact of Parental Socialization on the Coping Styles of Black Graduate Students Faced
with Microaggressions
Kai M. Perry, University of Connecticut
SESSION 45 Winning in Arizona: The Fight for In-State Tuition for Undocumented College Students
Student Union Catalina
Matt Matera, Scholarships A-Z
Ana Rodriguez, Independent Activist
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
Concurrent Session VIII (Continued)
SESSION 46
Youth and Student Leadership in Ethnic Studies
CESL 102
Emily Drew, Willamette University, Chair
Ethnic Student Radicalism: The Chicana/o Studies Movement at The University Of California, Los Angeles,
1965-1980
Jose G. Moreno, Estralla Mountain Community College
Why do Latino students study foreign language?
Seiri Aragon Garcia, University of Texas at Austin
Social Justice Worldview and Ethnic Identity Development
Rachel Gomez, University of Arizona
Afterschool Youth Substance Use Prevention to Develop Youth Leadership Capacity: South Tucson
Prevention Coalition Phase 1
Juvenal Caporale, University of Arizona
SESSION 47 Collaborative Research in Action: Reflecting on a multi-institutional & inter-generational
ethnic studies and social justice project
Chavez 205
Gabriel Higuera, University of Arizona
Xitlaly Reyes, University of Arizona
Alex Chavez, Pima Community College
Alexa Rodriguez, University of Arizona
Steve Valencia, Salt of the Earth Labor College
Efren Martinez, Pima Community College
Jessica Mejia, Pueblo Magnet High School
SESSION 48 How Diverse Universities Erase Our History: Looking at Curriculum and other issues
Chavez 209
Camille Brenke, Virginia Commonwealth University
Vicente Gonzalez, Virginia Commonwealth University
Rodrigo Arriaza, Virginia Commonwealth University
SESSION 49 Roundtable: Claiming Space: Building the Arizona Ethnic Studies Network
Chavez 211
Grace Gámez, American Friends Service Committee
Meghan McDowell, Old Dominion University
Nolan Cabrera, University of Arizona
Michelle Téllez, Northern Arizona University
Roberto Rodriguez, University of Arizona
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
Concurrent Session VIII (Continued)
SESSION 50 Roundtable: Border Studies Program in Tucson: Student, Teacher, Activist Perspectives
Student Union Santa Rita
Alisha Vasquez, Earlham College
Yaneli Soriano, Kalamazoo College
Rosalva Fuentes, Tucson Activist
Alicia Araujo, Tucson Activist
9:25-10:40 Concurrent Session IX
SESSION 51 U.S. Border Patrol Abuses on the Tohono O'odham Nation
Student Union Tucson
Mike Wilson, Tohono O'Otham Nation
David Garcia, Tohono O'Otham Nation
SESSION 52 Between the World and Us: A Multicultural Dialogue on the Experiences of
Understanding Whiteness and Its Role in Social Change Work
Student Union Rincon
Kelly Macías, Adler University
Terry Murray, Community Activist
SESSION 53 Talking Circle: Indigenizing the University: Student Activism and Visibility
Chavez 205
Amber Morseau, Eastern Michigan University
Michelle Lietz, Eastern Michigan University
SESSION 54 Teach-In: "It Takes a Nation of Millions: Teaching and Organizing Hip-Hop"
Student Union Catalina
T. Mark Montoya, Northern Arizona University
Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., Northern Arizona University
SESSION 55 Teach-In: Searching for the Disappeared Along the U.S. Mexico Border
Chavez 211
Cristen Vernon, la Coalición de Derechos Humanos
Dévora Gonzalez, la Coalición de Derechos Humanos
Isabel García, la Coalición de Derechos Humanos
SESSION 56 Roundtable: Cultural Cooptation and Racial Microagressions: #AllLivesMatter? A Critical
Race Theory Analysis of Campus Resistance Movements through a Community Cultural Wealth Lens
Chavez 209
Gloria Toriche, University of Michigan
James Hammond, University of Michigan
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
Concurrent Session IX (Continued)
SESSION 57 Progress Within the Institution: Moving Ethnic Studies Forward
Student Union Santa Rita
David Aliano, College of Mount St. Vincent, Chair
From Student Demands to Institutional Change: A Successful Strategy for Diversifying Faculty Ranks
Keith Osajima, University of Redlands
Black, Brown, and Chicana/o Studies: Searching for Spaces Where Black and Brown Coalesce
Luis Rodriguez, CSU Northridge
Sister, Daughter, Educator & Activist: The Balancing Act of First-Generation Chicana/Latina College
Gradates
Victoria Navarro Benavides, University of Arizona
Allies, Accomplice and “Innocent” Appropriators: Ethnic Studies and Building Resistance in the US
Heartland
April Petillo, Kansas State University
SESSION 58
Creating Space for the Everyday: Acts of Resistance and Questions of Authenticity in
the 626 Night Market, Black-ish, and Youth Organizations
CESL 102
Felipe Hinojosa, Chair, Texas A&M University
Gabriella Zewdu-Habte, Arizona State University
Natalie Santizo, Arizona State University
Jenna Heffron, Arizona State University
Rudy Guevarra Jr., Discussant, Arizona State University
10:50-12:05 Concurrent Session X
SESSION 59 Decentering Whiteness, Deconstructing Indigenous Representation, and Institutional
Racism
Student Union Santa Cruz
Iréne Alejandra Ramiréz, University of Arizona
Ben Ramirez, University of Arizona
James Utt, University of Arizona
SESSION 60 The impact and Importance of the Culturally Relevant Curriculum in Tucson, and
nationwide
Chavez 209
Raul Aguirre, REA Media Group
Local community activists and elected leaders
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
Concurrent Session X (Continued)
SESSION 61 Film Series III: No Más Bebés
CESL 102
Renee Tajima-Peña, University of California, Los Angeles
No Más Bebés tells the story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican
immigrant women sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at Los
Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Marginalized and fearful, many of these mothers spoke no English, and charged that they had been coerced into tubal ligation
— having their tubes tied — by doctors during the late stages of labor. Often the procedure was performed after asking the
mothers under duress.
The mothers’ cause was eventually taken up by a young Chicana lawyer armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a
whistle-blowing doctor. In their landmark 1975 civil rights lawsuit, Madrigal v. Quilligan, they argued that a woman’s right to
bear a child is guaranteed under the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.
The filmmakers spent five years tracking down sterilized mothers and witnesses. Most were reluctant at first to come forward,
but ultimately agreed to tell their story. Set against a debate over the impact of Latino immigration and overpopulation, and the
birth of a movement for Chicana rights and reproductive choice, No Más Bebés revisits a powerful story that still resonates
today.
SESSION 62 Of Motherwork, Margins, and Movement(s): Activism/Incarceration/Education
Chavez 211
Leah S. Stauber, Tucson Researcher and Writer
Grace Gamez, Arizona Activist
Lane Santa Cruz, University of Arizona
Roberto Rodriguez, University of Arizona
SESSION 63 Ethnic Studies is Political: Deportations, Immigrant Subjects, and Borders
Chavez 205
Maricela DeMirjyn, Colorado State University, Chair
Genderacing Immigrant Subjects: The Rhetoric of “Anchor Babies” and the Politics of Birthright
Citizenship
Joon Kim, Colorado State University
Book banning in Arizona: HB 2281 and the fate of Suffer Smoke
Andrea Hernandez Holm, University of Arizona
Percepciones de Dominación y Subordinación Entre Mexicanos, Latinos y Anglosajones en la Frontera
Sonora - Arizona, Documentadas en el Anecdotario Fronterizo
Fernando Tapia, Universidad de Sonora
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
Concurrent Session X (Continued)
SESSION 64 Fighting Erasure of Ethnic Studies Identity, Memory, and Literacy
Student Union Tucson
Angela M. Spence-Nelson, Bowling Green State University, Chair
"Why Do They Say I'm Not Latina Because I Can't Speak Spanish?": Competing Notions of Latin@ Ethnic
Authenticity on Linguistic Grounds at a Public Pennsylvania University
Justin Garcia, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Creating a Sense of Place: Student Literacy Practices in the Classroom
Kevan Kiser-Chuc, University of Arizona
Colorblindness as Violence: An Examination of Arizona's Ban on Ethnic Studies
Tameka Spence, Teachers College Columbia University
Spatializing Chicano Power: Cartographic Memory and Community Practices of Care
Juan Herrera, Oregon State University
SESSION 65 Intersectional Manifestations of Ethnic Resistance: How Race and Gender Converge
Student Union Rincon
Melvin Peters, Eastern Michigan University, Chair
Unsettled Times: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada
Vicki Chartrand, Bishop's University, Québec
Deportations, Racial Violence, and Mexicans in Arizona: Then and Now
Juliette Maiorana, Independent Historian
James Baldwin on Being White and Other Lies
Frederick Watson, Metropolitan State University of Denver
SESSION 66 Fostering Educational Sovereignty for Latin@ Students in Arizona: University of Arizona
Student Research and Activism
Student Union Catalina
Andrea Hernandez Holm, University of Arizona
Yesenia Andrade, University of Arizona
Josie Garcia, University of Arizona
Rachel Gómez, University of Arizona
Gabriel Higuera, University of Arizona
Alexa Rodriguez, University of Arizona
12:15-1:45 Brown Bag Plenary
Session 67: Ethnic Studies in Action:
Intersections of Human Rights Law, Border Rights, and K-12 Education for Youth of Color
CESL 102
Emily Penner, Stanford University
James Anaya, University of Arizona
Isabel Garcia, Coalicion de Derechos Humanos
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Ethnic Studies in Action Plenary Speakers
Emily K. Penner is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stanford School of Education and Center for Education
Policy Analysis. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Irvine
(2014) with a specialization in Education Policy and Social Context, and her B.A. in Economics and
International Relations from Claremont McKenna College (2005). Her research focuses on educational
inequality, and how parents, teachers, schools, and peers shape students’ educational opportunities.
Her dissertation examined the effects of Teach For America on student achievement, documenting
variation in the impact of Teach For America across the distribution of student achievement, subject
areas, developmental stages, baseline proficiency, and as the organization has evolved over time. She has also
conducted research on parenting interventions, peer effects, district mathematics policies, vouchers, and the quality of
teacher effectiveness measures. Prior to entering the PhD program at UC Irvine, Emily was an elementary classroom
teacher, an English language development coordinator, and reading intervention specialist in Oakland and Vista,
California.
Janes Anaya teaches and writes in the areas of international human rights, constitutional law, and
issues concerning indigenous peoples. Among his numerous publications are his acclaimed book,
Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press (1996); 2d ed. (2004)), and his widely used
textbook, International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy and Process (Wolters/Kluwar, 6th ed.
2011) (with Hurst Hannum and Dinah Shelton). He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from May 2008 to June 2014.
Professor Anaya has lectured in many countries throughout the world. He has advised numerous
indigenous and other organizations from several countries on matters of human rights and indigenous peoples, and he
has represented indigenous groups from many parts of North and Central America in landmark cases before courts and
international organizations. Among his noteworthy activities, he participated in the drafting of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and was the lead counsel for the indigenous parties in the case of Awas
Tingni v. Nicaragua, in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for the first time upheld indigenous land rights as
a matter of international law. As UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Professor Anaya monitored
the human rights conditions of indigenous peoples worldwide, addressed situations in which their rights were being
violated, and promoted practical measures to secure indigenous peoples' rights, travelling frequently to meet with
government officials and visit indigenous communities.
Prior to becoming a full time law professor, he practiced law in Albuquerque, New Mexico, representing Native American
peoples and other minority groups. For his work during that period, Barrister magazine, a national publication of the
American Bar Association, named him as one of "20 young lawyers who make a difference." Professor Anaya served on
the law faculty at the University of Iowa from 1988 to 1999, and he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School,
the University of Toronto, and the University of Tulsa.
Isabel Garcia is the co-chair of the Coalición de Derechos Humanos, a grassroots organization based
in Tucson, Arizona, that promotes respect for human and civil rights and fights the militarization of
the border region in the American Southwest. She is also the legal defender of Pima County,
Arizona. Ms. Garcia has been at the forefront of immigrant and refugee rights since 1976. As a lead
speaker on behalf of Derechos Humanos, Ms. Garcia holds press conferences and interviews, hosts
media crews, leads demonstrations, weekly vigils, symposiums, and marches to draw attention to
the unjust policies and inhumane treatment of immigrants. She works to counter anti-immigrant
hysteria and to change stereotypes and misinformation about immigrants. According to Ms. Garcia, “Immigration policy
has been a total failure and needs to be changed. It has not prevented people from attempting to cross the border but
has put the lives of thousands of men, women, and children in serious danger. Their deaths are the direct result of U.S.
policy.” Ms. Garcia has received many awards for her work, including the 2006 National Human Rights Award from the
Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos de México.
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
1:45-3:00 Check-in
Student Union Lobby
1:55-3:10 Concurrent Session XI
SESSION 68 Art and Storytelling on the Border and Beyond
Student Union Santa Rita
Joseph Sramek, Southern Illinois University, Chair
Border Beads Poetry and Workshop
Tara Trudell, New Mexico Highlands University
Storytelling for Change: Disrupting and Replacing Old Narratives with Stories of Power and Justice
Julie Fisher-Rowe, The Opportunity Agenda
The Chicano/a Research Collection
Nancy Godoy-Powell, Arizona State University
SESSION 69 Free Barrios, Free Expression
Chavez 211
Jacob Robles, Flower & Bullets
Dora Martinez, Flower & Bullets
Jason Michael Aragón, University of Arizona
SESSION 70 Artifacts, Media, and Ethnic Studies
Student Union Rincon
Melvin Peters, Eastern Michigan University, Chair
The Transformative Possibilities of a High School Ethnic Studies Class in Orange County, California
Jose Paolo Magcalas, Chapman University
Women Soldiers' Resilience: Drumming, Talking Circles, and Gatherings
Delores Mondragon, University of California, Santa Barbara
Not Another Sequel?! Hollywood's Persistent Use of Racial Patterns in Mainstream Movies
Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., Northern Arizona University
SESSION 71 Cultural Performance IV: The Creation Story: Where Did We Come From? Why Are We
Here? and Where Are We Going?
Student Union Catalina
Alfredo A. Figueroa and Patricia F. Robles, La Cuna de Aztlan Sacred Sites Protection Circle
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
Concurrent Session XI (Continued)
SESSION 72 Chicana and Native Influences in Food, Language, Film, and Spirituality
Chavez 209
Maricela DeMirjyn, Colorado State University, Chair
Con el Nopal en la Frente...Y en la Boca: “Biological Indians” (Re)Claiming Indigeneity through Traditional
Foods
Rebeca Figueroa, UC Davis
Critical Approaches to Heritage Language Learning: From Linguistic Survival to Resistance and Action
Maite Correa, Colorado State University
"Dropping...Down Deep Into the Bones' Marrow": Gloria Anzaldúa's Post-Oppositional Spiritualized
Politics
Jessica Spain Sadr, Texas Woman's University
Nation Building and Native Cinema: Representations of Economic Development and Nation Building in
Native Feature Films
Amy Fatzinger, University of Arizona
SESSION 73 Mentoring Roundtable: "Navigating a Path Toward an Academic Career"
Student Union Santa Cruz
Sponsored by the Graduate Student Committee
Joon Kim, Colorado State University
David Aliano, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Susan Asai, Northeastern University
Jesus Jaime-Diaz, University of Arizona
SESSION 74 Film Series IV: Northern Cheyenne Resistance: A Cultural & Political Case Study
CESL 102
Gail Small, Montana State University
SESSION 75 Teach-In: Ethnic Studies and the Youth Movement in Tucson
Student Union Tucson
Denise Rebeil, UNIDOS TUCSON
Jessica Alcaraz, UNIDOS TUCSON
Maggie Duncan, UNIDOS TUCSON
Max Gay, UNIDOS TUCSON
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
Concurrent Session XI (Continued)
SESSION 76 Latina, Chicana, and American Indian Feminist Modes of Power
Chavez 205
Angela M. Spence-Nelson, Bowling Green State University, Chair
The Marketing of Latinidad: Zoe Saldaña and L’Oréal’s True Match Campaign
Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Washington State University
Mary K. Bloodswoth-Lugo, Washington State University
The Intellectual Decolonization of a Midwestern Chicana
Julia Gutierrez, Arizona State University
Chicana Punk Modes of Consciousness in Violence Girl:East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, A Chicana
Punk Story
Susana Sepulveda, University of Arizona
Overcoming Challenges to Academic Success: Experiences of American Indian Women in Higher
Education: A Case Study of the University of Arizona
Ashley Tsosie-Mahieu, University of Arizona
3:20-4:20 Business Meeting
CESL102
Ravi K. Perry, President
All Registered Conference Attendees
Welcome and Encouraged to Attend
4:30-5:45 Concurrent Session XII
SESSION 77
Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Undocumented Students and Their Families
Student Union Santa Rita
Jennifer Cárdenas, University of Arizona
Isoken Adodo, University of Arizona
Imelda Murrieta, University of Arizona
Lauren Meyer, University of Arizona
Jina Yoon, University of Arizona
SESSION 78 Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice
Chavez 209
Francisco X. Alarcón, UC Davis
Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Red Earth Productions & Cultural Work
Roberto Cintli Rodríguez, University of Arizona
Elena Díaz Bjorkquist, Poet-Activist / Editor
Hedy Treviño, Poet-Activist / Visual Artist
Andrea Hernandez Holm, Poet, Educator
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
Concurrent Session XII (Continued)
SESSION 79 Teach-In: Detaining Identities: Illegalizing People of the Corn
Student Union Catalina
Devora Gonzalez, University of Arizona and Coalición de Derechos Humanos
Maya-Pipil, Missing Migrant Project Hotline
SESSION 80 Testimonios of First-Generation Xican@ Graduate Students Utilizing Ethnic Studies to
Transform the Academy
Chavez 205
Victoria Navarro Benavides, University of Arizona
Jesus Jaime-Diaz, University of Arizona
Juan Ochoa, University of Arizona
Gloria Negrete Lopez, University of Arizona
Nathania García, University of Arizona
SESSION 81 Organizing Ethnic Studies in Community and on Campus
Student Union Santa Cruz
Angela M. Spence-Nelson, Bowling Green State University, Chair
National Student Mobilization Movements: Students of Color Organizing to Dismantle Structural Racism
Within Their Educational Institutions
Natalia Albanese, Prescott College
Organizing as Considered One of the Fine Arts: Militancy, Militarization, and Inter-Ethnic Solidarity at a
Northern Arizona Liberal Arts College
Katrin Wolfe, Prescott College
The Need for Ethnic Studies in Predominately White Schools
Jon Greenberg, Everyday Feminism
The Treatment Industrial Complex: How For-Profit Prison Companies are Attempting to Profitize
Community Corrections
Emily Verdugo, American Friends Service Committee- Arizona
SESSION 82 Dreamers, Schools and Borders
Student Union Tucson
Melvin Peters, Eastern Michigan University, Chair
California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program Model
Armando Vazquez-Ramos, CSU Long Beach
Accessing SPED Services for the Children of Undocumented Residents
Aletha McCullough, Prescott College
Mexican and Mexican American Young Women Exploring Understandings of Identity and Co-constructing
Knowledge
Stacy Saathoff, University of Arizona
Resources Within Our Schools and Our Community for Enriching Opportunities
Corina Ontiveros, Tucson Unified School District
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Saturday, March 19 (Continued)
Concurrent Session XII (Continued)
SESSION 83 Film Series V: Tested
CESL 102
Curtis Chin, Independent Filmmaker / Visiting Scholar at New York University
The gap in opportunities for different races in America remains extreme. Nowhere is this more evident than our nation’s top
public schools. In New York City, where blacks and Hispanics make up 70% of the city’s school-aged population, they represent
less than 5% at the city’s most elite public high schools. Meanwhile Asian Americans make up as much as 73%. This
documentary follows a dozen racially and socio-economically diverse 8th graders as they fight for a seat at one of these schools.
Their only way in: to ace a single standardized test. Tested includes the voices of such education experts as Pedro Noguera and
Diane Ravitch as it explores such issues as access to a high-quality public education, affirmative action, and the model-minority
myth.
NAES is proud to resume its affiliation with talented filmmaker Curtis Chin. His critically-acclaimed 2009 film Vincent Who? Was
the featured film at last year’s conference at Mississippi State University.
7:00-10:00 Closing Reception
La Indita Restaurant, 218 E. 6th St.
Session 84: Membership Committee Reception and Grad Student Meet-n-Greet
Susan Asai, Membership Committee Chair
Jesus Jaime-Diaz, Graduate Student Representative
All are Welcome
Following formal activities at La Indita,
the event will continue at
Revolutionary Grounds Café, 606 N. 4th St.
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MAPS
University of Arizona
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Pima Community College
Downtown Campus
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GET INVOLVED
The National Association for Ethnic Studies needs your help! Whether it’s preparing for the annual conference,
publishing our journal, Ethnic Studies Review, or serving as a member of the Board of Directors, we’re always
looking for more people committed to furthering ethnic studies, considered broadly. Here’s how you can help:
NAES Board of Directors. Board members serve staggered terms of varying length. Elections are held during the
month proceeding the annual conference. Anyone who has been an NAES member for one year or more is eligible
to run for election. Board members are expected to attend the annual conference as well as an annual board
meeting, usually in October, and serve on other committees during the year.
The Awards Committee solicits nominations for the organization’s annual awards (see next page for more details),
and forms review committees to recommend recipients for each. Please contact the co-chairs at
[email protected] or [email protected] if you would like to serve on a review committee.
The Conference Committee develops bids for the annual conference and proposes to the Board locations and
hotel sites for the National Conference. The Committee also develops plenary sessions for each upcoming
conference that address relevant local and national issues. In consultation with the Board, the Committee also
oversees the development of the annual conference theme and call for papers/proposals. If you are not a board
member, you can be appointed to this committee by the NAES president. Please contact the chair at
[email protected] for more information.
The Finance Committee is responsible for developing and reviewing fiscal procedures and the annual budget with
staff and other Board members. The Finance Committee is also responsible for organizing an NAES audit every five
years. If you are not a board member, you can be appointed to this committee by the NAES president. Please
contact us at [email protected] for more information.
The Fundraising and Membership Committee is responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing all
fundraising activities in support of the mission of NAES. Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to,
developing strategies for fundraising, identifying and maintaining lists of potential sponsors/donors, annually
soliciting sponsors for specific events/activities (e.g., the conference), and overseeing all interaction with
donors/sponsors. In addition, the committee works with the Executive Director to oversee membership, prepare
the annual membership renewal drive, and verify that the membership list is regularly updated. It also works with
the Publications/Public Relations Committee to ensure all publication materials are sent to members. If you are
not a board member, you can be appointed to this committee by the NAES president. Please contact us at
[email protected] for more information.
The Graduate Student Affairs Committee brings graduate student issues to the Board, coordinates graduate
student panels and network activities for the annual meeting, and oversees communication among graduate
student members. Graduate student NAES members not on the NAES board are especially encouraged to join;
please contact the co-chairs at [email protected] or [email protected] for more
information.
The Publications/Public Relations Committee prepares, coordinates, maintains, and disseminates all information
regarding NAES. Public Relations activities include print, electronic, and social media designed to increase
scholarly and public knowledge of NAES and Ethnic Studies. The flagship publication for NAES is its biannual, peerreviewed journal, Ethnic Studies Review, which has a collaborative editorial board to ensure the highest academic
standards for publication. Members and the public are kept abreast of NAES news and information via a periodic
newsletter, The Ethnic Reporter. In addition, the committee works with the Executive Director to manage the NAES
website, ethnicstudies.org. If you are not a board member, you can be appointed to this committee by the NAES
president. Please contact us at [email protected] for more information.
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NAES AWARDS
Charles C. Irby Distinguished Service Award
The Charles C. Irby Distinguished Service Award recognizes distinction in one’s professional life
and community.
NAES Outstanding Book Award
The NAES Outstanding Book Award is the highest scholarly award bestowed by NAES.
Robert L. Perry Mentoring Award
The Robert L. Perry Mentoring Award recognizes exceptional mentoring.
The Ernest M. Pon Award
The Ernest M. Pon Award recognizes Asian American organizations dedicated to human rights
and equal justice.
Phillips G. Davies Graduate Student Presentation Award
The Phillip G. Davies Graduate Student Presentation Award is given to a graduate student
presenting at the conference whose presentation and/or scholarly work is outstanding and
makes a significant impact to the field of ethnic studies.
Cortland Auser Undergraduate Student Presentation Award
The Cortland Auser Undergraduate Student Presentation Award is given to a undergraduate
student presenting at the conference whose presentation and/or scholarly work is outstanding
and make a significant impact to the field of ethnic studies.
Ashton Welch Memorial Student Travel Fund Award
The Ashton Welch Memorial Student Travel Fund Award is given to students to assist them in
attending the NAES Annual Conference.
Funds permitting, and on the recommendation of the Awards Committee, the Association
confers other thematic or conference-specific awards.
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ABOUT NAES
The National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES) has a long history dating back to the early 1970s. It
began with a small group of scholars in the Midwest who, in 1972, saw a need for an organization which
would bring together those interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the national and international
dimensions of ethnicity. From their work came the National Association of Interdisciplinary Studies for
Native-American, Black, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Asian Americans. The objective of this organization
was to serve as a forum for promoting research, study, curriculum design, and publication of interest to
its members. The Association sponsored its first conference on ethnic and minority studies in 1973 in La
Crosse, Wisconsin. At the conference, university and college professors, public school teachers, and
students gathered to examine content and approaches to multicultural studies.
The association developed in tandem with the academic field of Ethnic Studies. Ethnic Studies grew out
of the civil rights movement and the concerns of minority students on college campuses throughout the
United States. Campus strikes began in the 1960s, driven by the demands of students of color and
others in the Third World Liberation Front demanding an increase of students and faculty of color and a
more comprehensive curriculum that spoke to the concerns and needs of marginalized communities.
The result of these initial battles was the establishment of the School of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco
State University and the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
During this time of struggle for power, place, and representation, the association supported student
actions and worked to foster interdisciplinary discussions for scholars, activists, and community
members concerned with national and international aspects of race and ethnicity. In 1985 the
association officially changed its name to National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES) with the stated
purpose of the promotion of activities and scholarship in ethnic studies.
Today, NAES members continue to examine the interlocking forces of domination that are rooted in
socially constructed categories of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and are committed to challenging
paradigms that systematically marginalize the experiences of diverse national and international
populations. As scholars and researchers, NAES members are also committed to nurturing civic-minded
and culturally informed students to strive to strengthen their communities.
NAES is incorporated as a non-profit corporation in the State of Wisconsin and conducts all business in
accordance with its bylaws. The Association is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3)
educational organization and its contributions are tax-deductible. The NAES bylaws contain rules that
define who we are, what we do, and how we are governed. The bylaws establish a contract between
members and define their rights, duties, and mutual obligations.
Like NAES on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/NationalAssociationforEthnicStudies
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NAES 2016 University of Arizona Sponsors
Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Arizona
Department of Religious Studies, University of Arizona
Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona
School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Africana Studies Program, University of Arizona
Office of the Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona
UA Global Initiatives, University of Arizona
Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona
Office of the Provost, University of Arizona
School of Journalism, University of Arizona
The Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth and Families, University of Arizona
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Fairfax, Virginia
Political Science Program, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Special Thanks To
Anna Ochoa O'Leary
Hilda Cortez
Jose Garcia
Margaret Yrun
Sophie Alves
Colin Deeds
Veronica Hirsch
Yesenia Andrade
Gabriel Higuera
Martina Dawley
Lela Scott MacNeil
Josie Garcia
Anthony Sanchez
Ana Serrano
Sarah Hernandez
Sarah Gonzalez
Maria Garcia
Joy Soler
Jesus Jaime Diaz
Shabana Shaheen
Katherine Hemminger
Deirdre Condit
Francisca James Hernandez
Greg Mazen
Ravi K. Perry
Roberto Rodriguez
David H. Golland
David Aliano
Natchee Barnd
Maricela Demirjyn
Joon Kim
Melvin Peters
Angela Spence-Nelson
Joseph Sramek
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The NAES namesake logo was designed by Maya Lê Espiritu
(http://www.etsy.com/shop/MaiArtGallery) to depict the diversity and unity of the field of
Ethnic Studies.
N = The UFW logo and farmworker figure signify the fight for worker rights waged historically
by Filipino and Mexican agricultural workers.
Immigrant crossing sign symbolizes immigrant struggles and immigrant rights.
A = Thunderbird: North American indigenous people’s symbol of power and strength
E = Raised fist: symbol of solidarity and support, most often associated with Black nationalism
White/yellow/black flag: Nation of Hawaii flag, representing pro-independence movement
S = Gloria Anzaldua: feminist and queer theory, symbolizing the intersectionality of race,
gender, and sexuality
Clasped hands: symbol of unity and solidarity among peoples of color