UNM Chicana and Chicano Studies

06/19/2025

Felicidades to Rubén Loza for complete his master’s degree. Making a tremendos impact with his scholarship and community vision.

Read more about his amazing work!

https://news.unm.edu/news/finding-community-unm-graduate-musician-and-raza-stoling-speaker?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5nS0ZVb6lKejzb4umVMeP8JlfgNJpynepXkOIaGcABzgWEaAkUTBI-S93H3A_aem_IXA0qt6CD--difQLkQcPmw

From California to Georgia and finally to New Mexico, Ruben Loza has been prioritizing finding community throughout his academic career.

04/30/2025

Fotos from our Gran Baile last Friday! What an amazing celebration of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Thank you again to everyone who supported and made this event possible!

04/29/2025

From the bottom of our hearts, the UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies would like to thank everyone that donated and supported our annual Gran Baile. Our department could not exist without the support of our community. Thank you to the planning committee, entertainment, and silent auction donors for making this year's Gran Baile a success. It was a night of joy and celebration. See you all next year! 🎶

04/21/2025

PhD student, Bilge and her Intro to CCS class visited la Casita. Operations Specialist Rebecca Martinez Baca and Department Administrator Antionette welcomed the class. Rebecca gave a tour of La Casita and introduced the events and classes offered by the Chicana/o Studies Department. Then, we enjoyed our class in the backyard. The topic of study was Nuevomexicano Cultural Studies. We read and discussed articles on querencia by Estevan Arellano, resolana by Tomás Atencio, and Muslim influence on New Mexican culture by Benito Cordova.

04/16/2025

Support Chicana/o Studies by attending our Gran Baile or donating using the link in our bio! We have an incredible lineup of local performers, silent auction, and New Mexican meal in store for our supporters. 🎶

04/11/2025

We are excited to invite you to Chicana and Chicano Studies’ Jardín-Ollin 2nd Annual Planting Day and Bench Dedication!
There will be a special bench dedication to Antonio Gomez and a seed exchange. We ask you to bring seeds to share if you have seeds and come to pick up seeds, so you have some to plant. Join us in welcoming spring by nurturing our garden and planting seeds of hope! 🌱🌻🪴☀️

03/29/2025

Noche de Cultura, NACCS 2025! We have a variety of local talent to provide a night filled with poetry, music, dance, and kava 🌠🎶🎙

03/28/2025

What is Teatro Campesino?
Born on the picket lines of the 1965 grape strike, Teatro Campesino used street theater to uplift farmworker voices, challenge injustice, and celebrate Chicano identity.
These short plays—actos—turned laughter into resistance and art into education.
Today, this legacy lives on wherever storytelling and struggle meet—on TikTok, in protest murals, and in community theater across the country.
This , we honor the artists and workers who showed us:
¡La cultura cura, y también libera!
Swipe to learn more + tag a storyteller who inspires you.

03/27/2025

We are excited to be hosting our Fandango Burqueño during the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies this year! Join us for a Son Jarocho workshop on Friday and our festival on Saturday. We look forward to seeing much of our communidad there!

03/27/2025

What a wonderful day of celebrating farmworkers and their endless contributions to our communities and world. Thank you to all the organizers and student speakers for ulilizing our casita to educate and share your stories. ¡Sí se puede! 🌱✊🏽🌶

03/25/2025

Come check out The Xicanxfuturisms Writing Workshop! This event is hosted by Chicana/o Studies Professor Dr. Matthew Goodwin, and Scott Russel Duncan, author of Old California Strikes Back.

Scott will talk about his piece "Why California Looks Like Taco Bell" and the research into his magic memoir/meta-novel Old California Strikes Back. Afterwards, there will be a writing workshop on how to fashion your own Xicanxfuturistic fiction!

This event is open to the public and will be held Wednesday April 2nd from 12-1:30 pm in the Frank Waters Room, located in Zimmerman Library. See you there!

03/21/2025

We are almost a month away from our annual Gran Baile Fundraiser. 🎶 Support our department by purchasing tickets today! Get yours using this link: linktr.ee/Chicanxstudiesunm