MUJERES TALK Pensamientos from the “Field”: On Mexican Women Caring for North Americans

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We have renovated the page for Mujeres Talk, the new MALCS web project featuring blog essays by members and allies on current issues and research.  This latest post is by Professor María Ibarra.  We invite all members and allies to write for Mujeres Talk.  Send entries of 500 – 1000 words to theresa@malcs.org with a brief … Read more

Mujeres Talk: Pensamientos from the “Field”: On Mexican Women Caring for North Americans

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We have renovated the page for Mujeres Talk, the new MALCS web project featuring blog essays by members and allies on current issues and research. I am an anthropologist who studies the labor of Mexicana elder care providers. Every year I spend time in the field, in my long-standing research site of Santa Barbara, and … Read more

Update on Betita Martinez’ health from Tony Platt

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Veterana Scholar-Activist Betita Martinez (a bio here) is increasingly frail, and has been moved from her Mission District Apartment to a residential care facility in SF by friends and family.  Several MALCSistas have suggested that local MALCS honor Betita’s accomplishments and hold a fundraiser for her medical needs…..

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If you can offer direct financial support, please send to:  Tony Platt, Prof Emeritus CSUS, 1607 Josephine Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 USA

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Belated obituary: Shifra Goldman, 1926-2011

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“I was never in the mainstream, never in all my life. I was born on the margins, lived on the margins, and have always sympathized with the margins. They make a lot more sense to me than the mainstream.” – Shifra M. Goldman, September 1992

Shifra Goldman (1926-2011), a pioneer in the study of Latin American and Chicana/o Art, and a social art historian, died in Los Angeles on September 11, 2011, from Alzheimer’s disease. She was 85. Professor Goldman taught art history in the Los Angeles area for over 20 years. She was a prolific writer and an activist for Chicana/o and Latino Art. In Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States, one of her award winning publications, she stated that part of her life’s work was to “deflect and correct the stereotypes, distortions, and Eurocentric misunderstandings that have plagued all serious approaches to Latino Art history since the 50s.”

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2012 NACCS Award for Fiction (Tejas Foco only)

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ANNOUNCING 2012 NACCS TEJAS AWARD FOR FICTION National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies—Tejas Foco Description of Award NACCS-Tejas invites nominations and submissions for its 2012 NACCS-Tejas Fiction Award. The 2012 NACCS Tejas Award for Fiction Committee will consider any novel or collection of short stories published in 2011 in Texas or elsewhere. We will … Read more

CFP: Empire & the Revolutionary Matrix

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Call for Papers:  Empire and the Revolutionary Matrix
Deadline: March 1, 2012
Norma Alarcón and Ellie D. Hernández, Editors

Recent decades have given rise to an extremist white nativism [Huntington] that in fact is not new to the Angloeuropean nation-state. The making of the nation has been punctuated by such violent “nativist” display for more than two centuries. Can we imagine a society that is multiracial, multicultural, and multilingual bringing together a diversity of peoples into a new “imagined community” *Anderson+ that heals the rifts and renegotiates the boundaries of exclusion that have only served to scar and produce interminable differences between and among the population?

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