Being my parents’ first child has always been a large part of my identity. I am their mixed daughter; the result of a 1960s high school romance between an eastside Chicano boy and westside Anglo-Catholic girl. I attended Catholic school from first grade until college — Catholicism formed the bulk of my my cultural identity…
Tag: Chicana
Saturday NACCS: Roundtable on Hijas de Cuauhtémoc
[I was tweeting this roundtable on Hijas de Cuauhtémoc but lost wifi so I decided to blog it. These are my notes taken as the discussion was going on and is probably both disjointed and incomplete. Session was recorded for classroom use at CSULB.] Introduction by Maylei Blackwell. (see tweets) Discussion by Anna NietoGomez, Sylvia Castillo,…
Friday Shopping and Lunch at NACCS
This conference feels a bit like a marathon. There’s so much to see and hear, so many people to talk to. Today I miss the first morning session (wasn’t feeling great) but then went to the first plenary (great talks by student scholars) and then got some cash and headed to the book exhibit. I’m…
Abstracted
[In celebration of my dissertation being accepted today by my university’s library, I’m put up its abstract. Don’t worry, I’m probably not going to post the whole thing.] Title: ”Splitting Aztlán: American Resistance and Chicana Visions of a Radical Utopia” My dissertation researches American resistance movements, focusing on nineteenth-century Transcendentalism and the Chicano/a movements of the…