PRESS RELEASE CONTACT Denise Chávez The Border Book Festival 575-523-3988 bbf@borderbookfestival.com THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY/LA JORNADA CHAMÃNICA 2012.  Year of Healing and Transformation.  The Completion of a 26,000 year cycle according to the Mayan and Aztec calendars.  The Border Book Festival (BBF) is making plans for its 18th annual book festival, The Shamanic Journey, which will … Read more
 DIRECTOR OF THE UMASS ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION The Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks a Director for the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT), the University’s curricular alternative spring break program. The position is a 9-month lectureship, three-year appointment, possibility for renewal. UACT is a 15-year-old collaboration of faculty, students, … Read more
Over the past decade, there has been significant attention focused on the murders and disappearances of Mexican women in Juarez, Mexico. The public protests and demands for justice directed at local, state and national government bodies by the families of the missing women have been joined by international women’s organizations, grassroots feminist campaigns, and several … Read more
DR. YOLANDA BROYLES-GONZÃLEZ BOOK RELEASE & SIGNING The University of Arizona’s Native American Red Ink Magazine is proud to host the launch event of Professor Yolanda Broyles-González’s new book Earth Wisdom: A California Chumash Woman, written in collaboration with Chumash native elder Pilulaw Khus. The event will take place 7:00 p.m., Friday, February 3, 2012 … Read more
Last week important works of literature, history and philosophy by world-renowned writers and scholars such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie, Ofelia Zepeda, Paulo Freire, Rodolfo Acuña, Carmen Tafolla and others were removed from classrooms and some libraries in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD). The perspectives and insights about diverse ethnic, racial and … Read more
From the Executive Committee of MALCS January 30, 2012 Last week important works of literature, history and philosophy by world-renowned writers and scholars such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie, Ofelia Zepeda, Paulo Freire, Rodolfo Acuña, Carmen Tafolla and others were removed from classrooms and some libraries in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD). The … Read more
Here’s the latest installment in WordStrike’s multi-part series on Saving Ethnic Studies in Arizona. Jeff Biggers speaks to Mayra Feliciano, a leader of the student group UNIDOS, about turning her school’s struggle to defend ethnic studies into a nationwide grassroots movement for educational justice. As one of the co-founders of the student group UNIDOS in … Read more