[Note, this blog title was shamelessly stolen from a tweet by @laura_luna who has her own blog, creativexicana. I only steal from the best.] Over on Twitter Chicano MA student @xicano007, who has a library anyone would envy, started posting images of his Chicana/o books along with titles and authors. Ever the busybody I suggested…
Tag: Aztlán
La Paranoia de Aztlán
Recently I’ve been researching a contemporary refiguring of Aztlán because of the “Aztlan conspiracy” being put about by paranoid nativists. The Southern Poverty law center writes that the wide propagation of these false theories are led by two hate groups — the California Coalition for Immigration Reform and American Patrol. Though them, Aztlán is being…
NACCS Presentation: “for those who dream of roses / swallow thorns”: Aztlán as Cosmopolitical Space
[This is the exact text of my talk. You can download a pdf version of all the slides: NACCS though I haven’t been able to reach Maria Teresa Fernandez to get her permission to repost them to the internet. She did give me permission to use them in my research when I spoke to her…
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…