UNM Chicana and Chicano Studies

04/29/2024

Join us this Thursday to celebrate the recent publication of Chamisa! Listen to select authors discuss their work and learn about the call for papers for Issue 4.

04/24/2024

UNM CCS Presente en NACCS!

04/24/2024

Join us next week for son jarocho worshops and presentations!

04/04/2024

Today, we are joined by Dr. Genevieve Negron-Gonzales and Dr. Magdalena L. Barrera, authors of the Latinx Guide to Graduate School.

03/29/2024

Our Arte por Vida series has been very successful this spring. We continue with more great cultural events, and our Gran Baile is one of them. We hope you can join us!

Below is the link to register for free tickets to our Gran Baile, on Friday evening, April 12th, at NHCC.

https://my.nmculture.org/31550/31551

This is going to be a wonderful evening, where we get to celebrate our beautiful New Mexico culture and celebrate all the great things happening with CCS.

03/27/2024

Live stream the amazing Radical Harmonies Jazz concert:

More information available athttp://music.unm.edu/

03/26/2024

LESSONS FROM THE LAND GRANT STRUGGLE: ROUNDTABLE

Rio Arriba County Commissioner Moises Morales, Community Activist Henrietta Esquibel, & Civil rights Activist and MacArthur Fellow Maria Varela

Date and Time: April 3, 2024. 12:00 to 1:15 pm.
Location: University of New Mexico. Dane Smith Hall, Room 120.

Sponsored by UNM Chicana/o Studies & the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute

Abstract: Moises Morales, Henrietta Esquibel, and Maria Varela will discuss 21st century lessons from the New Mexico Land Grants struggle. Morales is a Rio Arriba County District III Commissioner. Both he and Esquibel have long engaged in land activism, and both are land grant heirs. Maria Varela is a civil rights activist, sustainable community development expert and MacArthur "genius grant" Fellow.

This event is free and open to the public.

03/26/2024

***Room change announcement***

Event will be happening in the Learning and Resource Center Room 101 B&C at the UNM Valencia campus!

See you all there for this tremendous event ✨

Please join us for the panel "Latinas in the Humanities: Career Pathways, Experience in Schooling, Teaching, and the Arts" panel at UNM Valencia on March 26th from 1:30pm-3:00pm. The panel will include our very own Dr. Laura Belmonte and Laura Rebolloso, as well as Albuquerque Poet Laureate Jessica Helen Lopez and UNM Valencia's Supervisor of Student Success for PASOS Beatriz Villa.

03/26/2024

03/20/2024

Please join us for the panel "Latinas in the Humanities: Career Pathways, Experience in Schooling, Teaching, and the Arts" panel at UNM Valencia on March 26th from 1:30pm-3:00pm. The panel will include our very own Dr. Laura Belmonte and Laura Rebolloso, as well as Albuquerque Poet Laureate Jessica Helen Lopez and UNM Valencia's Supervisor of Student Success for PASOS Beatriz Villa.

03/07/2024

Join our CCS Casita planting day, Friday March 15th. From 9am-11am, we will be enjoying the morning sun, and planting mini seed balls that we will create. These will be planted in front of the Casita. Joe Garcia will be leading us in this planting.

03/07/2024

Join us for a day of music. For more information please call (505) 277-6414.

03/04/2024

Please join us this Friday for this amazing event supporting Nuevo Mexicana women! This event is free and open to the public.

02/28/2024

Happening this Thursday, February 29th at 3:30pm in person at the UNM Zimmerman library, Frank Waters room. Dr. Olivas will be presenting her current research on New Mexico food sovereignty!

We are very excited to have Dr. Olivas in the department of Chicana/o/x studies. Please join us as we learn about her ongoing scholarship.

Dr. Divana Olivas, Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Chicana/o Studies, will share her talk, “Environmental Justice, Food Imaginaries, and Albuquerque’s Long Chicana/o/x Movement.”

Join us on Thursday, February 29th at 3:30pm, in the Frank Waters room, Zimmerman Library.

02/26/2024

Join CCS and the NHCC for this dazzling event!

02/24/2024

Congratulations to this amazing group! Dr. Myrriah Gomez, Dr. Michael Trujillo, and Bilge Aydın presented at the Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque. Their panel was titled Rudolfo Anaya and Chicanx Literature: The Legacy of a Forefather.

02/23/2024

Congratulations to PhD student Laura Rebolloso who recently published in the online magazine “Praxis”, in Tuxpan, Veracruz. Check out the article below!

En la tradición lírica mexicana existe la figura del “Negrito Poeta”. Se trata de una manera de nombrar una tradición lírica, oral, anónima, vinculada con la cultura y el folclore negro tanto en la Nueva España (la colonia), como en el México independiente. La figura ha sido rastreada por...

02/22/2024

Join us this Friday, February 23rd, with alumni Dra. Trisha Martinez to learn more about paño art and practices! This event will be hosted at the CCS casita from 12:30 to 1:30pm, in person.

02/19/2024

The 2024 Ancestral Gila Homelands Events and Zoom Lecture Series continues this week with guest scholar:


Dr. Christina M. Castro (Three Sisters Collective):
“Earth Healing and Indigenous Wisdoms.”


Please join us for this Zoom conversation on Friday, February 23, 2024 @ 3:00-4:00 p.m. (Mountain).
A complete schedule of events is available on the Ancestral Gila Homeland Digital Hub.
https://gilawildernesscentennial.wordpress.com/

For further information contact:
Dr. Michelle Hall Kells
[email protected]

02/17/2024

Today at La casita, tin artist Jason Younis of Albuquerque, taught Northern, NM traditional arts. Jason Younis is 5th generation timwork artist and offered a beautiful workshop. The department is grateful for the tools gifted to the casita by Jason! Check out some of the amazing tin art created by students today

02/15/2024

If you are in Los Angeles this week at CSULA, support our graduate students at AJAAS

02/13/2024

Dr. Divana Olivas, Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Chicana/o Studies, will share "Chicana/o Studies Brown Bag with Dr. Olivas: A Plática + Practical Strategies on Academic Work." Join us on Thursday, March 7th, 3:30pm-5:00pm in CCS' La Casita conference room.

02/09/2024

Today, the CCS 2110 with PhD student Bilge , class participated in a Museum Field Trip. After studying Mesoamerica and indigeneity in the classroom, we wanted to experience special Mesoamerican collections and artifacts in the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. We were privileged to be one of the first to see that collection and to hear from very knowledgeable curators, archaeologists, anthropologists, Julián, Luis, and the director, Carla, about Mesoamerica. They guided and taught us about forms, shapes, and figures and our conversations further extended to the discussion of Spanish colonialism, race, indigeneity, El Movimiento, Latin America. It was an eye-opening experience. We enjoyed it a lot. Thank you for making this possible for us and we appreciate your hospitality in the museum.

02/06/2024

We are very excited to have Dr. Olivas in the department of Chicana/o/x studies. Please join us as we learn about her ongoing scholarship.

Dr. Divana Olivas, Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Chicana/o Studies, will share her talk, “Environmental Justice, Food Imaginaries, and Albuquerque’s Long Chicana/o/x Movement.”

Join us on Thursday, February 29th at 3:30pm, in the Frank Waters room, Zimmerman Library.

01/26/2024

This talk revisits the Alianza Landgrant Movement of the 1960s using paradigms of Colonization, Race-Ethnic Identity, Racial Identity, and Emancipation Theories. Social movements seem chaotic and reactive to personalities and events. The landgrant struggle including the Courthouse Raid of 1967 are framed using the corridos, which follow the rise and fall of its leader, Reies Tijerina, and his story is understood in the paradigm of the heroic journey. The ballad tradition was both used to recognize heroic acts and follow a people's movement of emancipation through the stages of the journey. That same paradigm allows for one to understand the corrido cycle and the anatomy of social protest. These paradigms apply to explain the story of Las Mercederos, landgrant heirs of the 1960s New Mexico's history of dispossessed and sociopolitically marginalized communities, how they reacted and led astray. Ultimately, it takes reframing history and viewing the landgrant movement through socioeconomic lenses to measure a society's ability to provide productive solutions to injustice so that all can flourish.

Federico A. Reade, Jr. is the author of Ecos del Pueblo: Chicano Voices, Decolonized Mind, and Emancipatory Theories (2023), Cuentos Mercederos: Fables of the Landgrants (2022), and ¡Justicia! The New Mexico Landgrant Movement 1956 to 1968 (2020). He is an independent scholar and filmmaker. He has produced and directed a number of documentaries on New Mexico and other topics related to Chicano Studies, including the award-winning, Una lucha por mi Pueblo and Recuerdos de César Chávez. Federico is a fifth-generation Reade and es puro Nuevomexicano.

01/22/2024

Federico A. Reade, PhD in Educational Thought & Sociocultural Studies from UNM. Facilitated by Dominique Rodriguez, Chicana/o Studies, UNM.

January 26, 12-12:50, Mitchell Hall 221, University of New Mexico.

Part of the Nuevomexicano Thought, Politics and Culture Lecture Series. Sponsored by UNM Chicana/o Studies Department and the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute.

12/09/2023

Join us for a book talk with M.A. student Évolet Aceves who will be discussing her recently published book. Évolet is the first Trans published writer in Mexico.

12/06/2023

Join us for this beautiful end of the semester gathering. All are welcome to the Casita for food and the celebration of students and faculty 💖

12/04/2023

Join us today, tomorrow and Wednesday for son jarocho workshops. Bring your shoes and instruments.