Minuteman flees debate with Columbia Chicana organizer…

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Wow. Columbia senior Karina Garcia, Political Chair of the school’s Chicano Caucus, appeared on NPR’s Democracy Now to debate Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist. Gilchrist had been invited by the College Republicans to speak on campus, and Garcia’s group was one of many that staged an active protest at the event. On the radio show, after Garcia gave her explanation of the event, Gilchrist fled the studio.

Apparently, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has picked up Gilchrist’s version almost immediately, gaining a questionable response from Columbia’s president (“a serious breach of academic faith”). See the transcript and/or audio at
https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/11/1430231

See Garcia’s comments below….

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Deena Gonzalez makes the top 50!

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Here’s a great photo and feature article on la muy Distinguida Doctora Deena J. Gonzalez from the LMU/LA home page. Deena, Chair of LMU’s Department of Chicana/o Studies, has been recognized as one of the 50 most important living women historians in the U.S. as part of the Smith College project, “Living U.S. Women’s History, … Read more

Cecilia Burciaga at Natl Hispanic Univ, San Jose

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MALCS chair Adriana Ayala is immensely pleased to note that as of July 1, veteran Chicana educator Cecilia Burciaga has been at the helm of Academics as Interim Provost at the National Hispanic University. Cecilia comes to NHU with over twenty years experience in higher education at Stanford University and at California State University, Monterey … Read more

Otra tenured chingona….Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs

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Kudos to newly-tenured Associate Professor of Spanish Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs at Seattle University, Washington. Gabriella is a gifted teacher, researcher, and poet from Watsonville in Santa Cruz County, California. Her current academic projects include Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena María Viramontes Reader and the forthcoming Chilean and Chicana Authors: Chicanas, Chilenas and Other Cultural … Read more