“I’m Neither Here nor There”: New Book by Patricia Zavella

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Check out a new title by UCSC Professor of Latino & LatAm Studies Patricia Zavella,  I‘m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty, published by Duke University Press. “One of the surprises was finding how diverse people were,” she said. Zavella, the outgoing chair of LALS, had shared an assumption that … Read more

2011 CSULA MALCS Summer Institute Aug 3-6 – Call for Workshops/Roundtables

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The Summer Institute is the highlight for MALCS membership. By creating an informal space for networking and learning, our goal is to work toward supporting Chicana/Latina and Native American women in various fields of work and activism and to develop and strengthen support in higher education. Promoting knowledge building, the MALCS 2011 Institute invites members … Read more

Call for Participants for WRITING WORKSHOP

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Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social calls for participation in the Writing Workshop at the 2011 MALCS Summer Institute at California State University, Los Angeles, August 3-7, 2011.  DEADLINE: Postmark July 1, 2011

WHAT: Feminist collaboration for publication!
The Writing Workshop is one of the Journal’s formal methods of creating a feminist editorial process. Following the spirit and mission of MALCS, the journal’s editors offer the workshop in order to energize through collaboration, programmatically link scholarship and leadership, and institutionalize mentorship. Participants bring their work-in-progress and depart with clear recommendations for meeting internal criteria of Chicana/Latina Studies, specific direction about revision, and first-hand knowledge about our feminist editorial production process.
To create an intellectual community, prior to the workshop, participants read and commented on the material of the other writers. Attending both two-hour sessions (the first on Weds. Aug. 3, and the second on Friday Aug. 5) is required.
One Writing Workshop will be offered this summer:
1) The Academic Article: A Writing Workshop, facilitated by Dr. Karen Mary Davalos, former editor of Chicana/Latina Studies.
DATES and TIMES: Aug. 3 at 3:00-5:00 p.m. and Aug. 5 at 8:00-10:00 a.m.   Participants may arrive on Tuesday, Aug 2, but must contact the Cal State LA Site Committee to arrange housing. The workshop will begin at 3:00 p.m. on Weds., Aug. 3 and continue on Friday Aug. 5 at 8:00 a.m. of the MALCS Summer Institute. This schedule means that participants miss only one hour of the MALCS Summer Institute programs.
WHY: It really works!
Past participants who have been published in the journal are: Dora Ramirez-Dhoor (5:1), Rosalia Solorzano Torres (5:1), Ann Marie Leimer (5:2), Patricia Trullijo (6:1), Carmelita “Rosie” Castañeda (7:2), Marivel  Danielson (7:2), M. Bianet Castellanos (8: 1 & 2), and Rosa Furumoto (8: 1 & 2), and more!

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Mexico moves to protect migrants at border

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La Cámara de Diputados aprobó la minuta del Senado por la cual se expide la nueva Ley de Migración, con lo que se busca frenar agresiones en contra de migrantes, y obliga a las instituciones del Estado a respetar los derechos humanos de los indocumentados. Los legisladores federales también aprobaron el dictamen para crear la … Read more

CFP 2011 Writing Workshops at Summer Institute, CSULA

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social invites your participation in the Writing Workshops at the 2011 MALCS Summer Institute at Cal State LA (CSULA), August 3-7, 2011 The deadline for submission is postmark July 1, 2011. First-come, first-serve basis for 8 participants. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR … Read more