MLA Commons | LLC Chicana and Chicano | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Chicana and Chicano. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:29:27 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 275c3ca7836c66a87f92819f43a93b69 José Alonso de la Garza Valenzuela uploaded the file: Pasados Special Issue: Against the Past/Contra Pasados to LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1925703/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:03:43 -0400 Deadline: January 15, 2026

]]> 0 131b8317c3abea3bae05c595a07cc05e Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890468/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:00:08 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody’s muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 98f6584e640ae467284144eeeaaeda67 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Dec. 13, 2021; 6-7:30pm) Latinx Project featuring NYU Press Books in the discussion LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/dec-13-2021-6-730pm-latinx-project-featuring-nyu-press-books/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:58:18 -0500 Latinx Studies at NYU Press

Mon, December 13, 2021, from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST

On Monday, December 13, 2021, The Latinx Project is holding a feature of NYU Press books on Latinx Studies; including Jesica S. Fernández, author of Growing Up Latinx: Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship; Mary Beltran, author of the forthcoming Latino TV…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9a7c4f417ed097cdaf0d3b0048558e8 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2021-forum-delegate-election-13/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:26:07 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 4df5c9b98d8a6c57d53ccacb1d1a41e1 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Women & Language Journal CFP in the discussion LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/women-language-journal-cfp-2/ Fri, 01 May 2020 14:51:26 -0400 Call for Papers | Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6f236b152da910ac3fa4dbed4b84020 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Just published: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter in the discussion LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/just-published-lin-manuel-miranda-and-the-politics-of-us-latinx-twitter-3/ Sat, 04 Apr 2020 01:04:21 -0400 If you’re interested, check out the essay I recently published in issue #4 of archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil: http://archipelagosjournal.org/issue04/machado-gratitude.html

 

In “Debt of Gratitude: Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Politics of US Latinx Twitter,” I engage in an ana…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd5688f76e1355b50d26b9617be6d3cd Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: Afro-Latinx Stories in the discussion LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/mla-2021-cfp-afro-latinx-stories-3/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 01:10:40 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting proposals for this panel on “Afro-Latinx Stories” for the 2021 Modern Language Association convention. See more info below. Thanks!

Cheers,

Elena

MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories

  • Papers analyzing Afro-Latinx cultural and literary production.
  • Send 150-word abstract and C…

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]]> 0 7f1efcc025ffc3c4b8e99bfa9ed2c698 Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663738/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:22:08 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 4dc1d552baa6a225f73d2092599c3f82 John Alba Cutler started the topic Latinx Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/latinx-forum-sessions-at-mla-2019-2/ Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:55:23 -0500 Hi, everyone,

Please mark your calendars for the following Latinx Forum sessions at MLA in January:

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]]> 0 da8de2ef4e045071a20bf42192a1c38b Marissa K. López deposited The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography: The Case of Hubert H. Bancroft and Mariano G. Vallejo in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610069/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 04:17:15 -0400 This article compares the historiographic methods of two 19th century, California historians.. Mariano Vallejo, former Mexican military commander of Alta California, wrote his Recuerdos at the request of San Francisco-based, Anglo-American historian Hubert H. Bancroft. In his own memoir, Literary Industries (1915), Bancroft describes his…[Read more]

]]> 0 573adcebfb5bf0481eed244ab5799e8f Laura Halperin posted an update in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano: MLA 2018 Chicana/o/x Panels and Cash Bar--Please Join […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594279/ Tue, 02 Jan 2018 19:53:19 -0500 MLA 2018 Chicana/o/x Panels and Cash Bar–Please Join Us!!!

Happy 2018, everyone! For those of you who will be attending MLA this week, below is the list of panels (along with times and locations) that the Chicana/o/x Literature Forum is sponsoring. I also am including information about the cash bar our forum is jointly organizing with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0349123e2df7f20943512c6ce3e7d40b Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo's Novel So Far from God in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588623/ Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:43:12 -0500 As part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]

]]> 0 704b9bc23cfed5f97e3e6ad857ea19f7 Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588121/ Sun, 12 Nov 2017 18:41:19 -0500 This paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]

]]> 0 786a9bba7ea3acbb299ab5365552bd1b Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas's The Rain God in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565190/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:13:38 -0400 This essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1ecac1afc8e1f02370cdc8eb6ed86c5 Yolanda Padilla deposited "Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now" in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564761/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 01:09:12 -0400 Introduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.

]]> 0 12eafc9d3939835f363b2b7528c91fb2 Laura Halperin started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED! Chicana and Chicano Literature Forum: MLA 2018 Call for Papers in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/chicana-and-chicano-literature-forum-mla-2018-call-for-papers/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:44:47 -0500 21st Century Chicanx Performance

We invite papers on 21st century Chicanx performance/ performance of Chicanidad on stage/film/street, etc.; 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv. 200-300 word abstract; 1-page cv by 20 March 2017; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu).

Trump Terror

We invite analyses of the president’s/executive cabinet’s anti…[Read more]

]]> 0 b138c4eec04b77a1f32acbccb0bc990c Richard T. Rodríguez started the topic Report on Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Palestine in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/report-on-academic-freedom-and-higher-education-in-palestine/ Fri, 16 Dec 2016 05:40:21 -0500 MLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia, may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli i…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4a36f3de3f1f588d1964093fc4f53bc Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/latinao-studies-cfps-2/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:52:02 -0500 Please consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.

1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum

queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f696ab120ee1d14c3fbf1403156479f Yolanda Padilla started the topic CFP (MLA 2017): “25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage” in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-25-years-of-recovering-the-us-hispanic-literary-heritage/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:07:03 -0500 “25 Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage”

Special session proposed by the 19thc American LLC and the Chicana and Chicano LLC

Papers considering past contributions, archival silences, and future prospects of the Hispanic Recovery Project with interest on dissensus or dialogue with other currents in the long American 19th c…[Read more]

]]> 0 80175e69a91d1e91e730167033b5f1a4 Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): "Teaching Borderlands at 30" in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/chicanao-literature-division-cfp-mla-2017-teaching-borderlands-at-30/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:52:43 -0500 “Teaching Borderlands at 30”

As we commemorate the thirty-year anniversary of Anzaldúa’s Borderlands we invite papers that address how we teach this genre-blurring text. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Laura Halperin (lhalperi@email.unc.edu)

]]> 0 5cd7e38c18901547e0f49364b2adb68e Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): “La Raza y Gaza” in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/chicanao-literature-division-cfp-mla-2017-la-raza-y-gaza/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:50:43 -0500 “La Raza y Gaza”

Papers engaging the political resonances of Palestine for Chican@s. Intersections in various texts, teaching, or other topics. 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu)

]]> 0 387cd6fb16b9ab8fb9398afe5a30cecc Yolanda Padilla started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division CFP (MLA 2017): “Liberty Crack'd” in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/chicanao-literature-division-cfp-mla-2017-liberty-crackd/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:48:03 -0500 “Liberty Crack’d”

What are possibilities and fault lines within the promise of US liberty when examined through the lens of immigration, incarceration, police brutality, etc.? 200-300-word abstract; 1-page cv by 15 March 2016; Olga Herrera (herr0480@stthomas.edu).

]]> 0 c292a183b2a6366fee55e2b8e6ffdae0 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: (MLA 2017) US Latino/a Performance in the discussion Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-us-latinoa-performance-2/ Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:04:02 -0500 MLA 2017 Proposed Special Session

“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”

 

This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Br…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3a94070d0b6371c23a8a70318c379f3 Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531491/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:09:42 -0400 This article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.

]]> 0 a53b2c9dee5027f71085c99b0cb4f1f3 Francisco Robles deposited Traveling Borderlands and Travesía Hermeneutics in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo in the group Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/245226/ Sun, 12 Jul 2015 02:40:34 -0400 In this paper, I use Sandra Cisneros’s /Caramelo/ (2002) to examine the “traveling borderlands” in Mexican American migrant narratives. Traveling borderlands names the aesthetic and existential practice of creating contingent home spaces that contest paradigms of fragmentation and essentialism, the former often taken to be a defining feature of ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 39535cade46eb202a94c7ba57144b4c3 Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/187709/ Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:13:40 -0400 This paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.

]]> 0 d753f5a2324c42977f2349c6b356e1de María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/89207/ Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:42:25 -0500 CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
Deadline Extension: January 31st

]]> 0 f36cae64246a290a826a772595f2afb5 Sandra K. Soto started the topic MLA Chicana/o Literature Division’s Panels (2015) in the forum Chicana and Chicano Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano-literature/forum/topic/mla-chicanao-literature-divisions-panels-2015/ Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:38:26 -0400 Please Circulate Widely!

Friday, 9 January
351. Chicano Narrative at Twenty-Five
3:30–4:45 p.m., West 202, VCC West
Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature
Presiding: Yolanda Padilla, Univ. of Washington, Bothell
1. “The Diachronics of Difference: Chicano Narrative Then, Now, and before Chicanidad,” Jesse Alemán, Un…[Read more]

]]> 0 441e65d487fbd5322722ca60b33f90e9 Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano: Chicana and Chicano Literature Division of the Modern […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/59644/ Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:53:43 -0400 Chicana and Chicano Literature Division of the Modern Language Association. Call for abstracts.

Extended Deadline: 03/23/14

Queering Chican@ Utopias: Remembering José Esteban Muñoz. Innovative presentations in Chican@ Studies that exemplify or call for Muñoz’s queer, world-building work. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014…[Read more]

]]> 1 8e05c388d02e06fab51e74591eb4101a Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano: MLA 2015 (a jointly sponosored-session: Chicana/o Lit […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58643/ Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:44:36 -0500 MLA 2015 (a jointly sponosored-session: Chicana/o Lit Division together with Latin America, 20th Century)

Latino/a-merican Canada. Considering the conference’s location in Vancouver, we invite papers that examine writings by the Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Latin American diaspora in Canada. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; S…[Read more]

]]> 0 91873cf9b685d57cb9a35a708a51b3d8 Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano: MLA 2015 (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58496/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:32:11 -0500 MLA 2015 (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division Panel)
Chicano Narrative at 25. Papers that examine how Ramón Saldívar’s classic work has shaped the field and/or how critics have extended or departed from its major claims. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; Sandra K. Soto (sotos@email.arizona.edu).

]]> 0 2e0e602d2fd1e2be6da426ff3a6fb1a7 Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano: MLA 2015 (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58495/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:30:56 -0500 MLA 2015 (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division Panel)
Recovering the 70s. What connections can be drawn among art forms of the 1970s Chicana/o Renaissance and the moment they were produced? Why remember this renaissance? 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; Sandra K. Soto (sotos@email.arizona.edu).

]]> 0 504eaaf17f7bd3885059b6b2c4c85bc4 Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group LLC Chicana and Chicano: MLA 2015 CFP (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58494/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:27:13 -0500 MLA 2015 CFP (A Chicana and Chicano Literature Division Panel)
Queering Chican@ Utopias: Remembering José Esteban Muñoz. Innovative presentations in Chican@ Studies that exemplify or call for Muñoz’s queer, world-building work. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014; Sandra K. Soto (sotos@email.arizona.edu).

]]> 0 b1c164dbfc10104b1ad446607816e96a Aureliano DeSoto started the topic CFP MLA 2015: The Works of Rigoberto González in the forum Chicana and Chicano Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2015-the-works-of-rigoberto-gonzalez/ Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:31:18 -0500 Special Session
A panel on the works of Rigoberto González: topical analyses, theory, genres (poetry, memoir, essays, YA, criticism), Chicana/o lit influences, impact(s). 250-word abstracts and 1-page CV by 9 March 2014; Aureliano DeSoto (aureliano.desoto@metrostate.edu).

]]> 0 69ffef017c04d6c02932ce6787e599ec María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum Chicana and Chicano Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chicana-and-chicano-literature/forum/topic/call-for-papers-social-movements-2/ Thu, 26 Dec 2013 00:10:08 -0500 TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE

Translating Social Movements

Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014

The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf2504428cb6a15db55a837a9a3c9c0f Blog: Teaching the Chicana and Chicano "Body" from La Bloga in the group Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/40547/ Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:03:00 -0400 !–[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 0 1 920 5247 university of nebraska 43 10 6443 10.260 <![endif]–!–[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 0 <![endif]– […]

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]]> 0 c21fcc0081baff652f88ac793dbae076 Blog: Chicanonautica: Coming of Age in the Quixote Cult from La Bloga in the group Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/40550/ Thu, 15 Aug 2013 06:01:00 -0400 by Ernest HoganWhen it comes to books, I’m a hunter-gather. I like to discover them rather than have them assigned to me by an academic authority or hard-sold to […]

]]> 0 8510af33621806c797175d58d8483ebc Blog: Señor Pancho Had a Rancho from La Bloga in the group Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/40551/ Wed, 14 Aug 2013 06:00:00 -0400 I am very happy to present to La Bloga Readers my tenth book in my writing career.When I came to the United States, I discovered that not only people had problems […]

]]> 0 26b36d4e69665ac04f443498db9ba775 Blog: The Apprentice's Tale. Mailbag. On-line Floricanto. from La Bloga in the group Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/40552/ Tue, 13 Aug 2013 06:01:00 -0400 Portrait of the Apprentice with the ArtistMichael SedanoFortune smiles on the serendipitous photographer. In one of the busiest arts weekends of 2013, tough […]

]]> 0 fa644b115bb6addcb6f276c94d0a5963 Blog: Book Review: Wrap up your summer with these good reads from La Bloga in the group Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/40553/ Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:01:00 -0400 By Daniel A. Olivas            Been working too hard to even think about planning a summer vacation? When you do get around to it, don’t forget to bring along some […]

]]> 0 134ce36b6ba4c68fcd0ea87cc18900ab Blog: Retarded Justice: On Language and the Mistreatment of Rachel Jeantel in the George Zimmerman Trial from La Bloga in the group Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/40554/ Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:51:00 -0400 Olga García EcheverríaAs soon as 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel hit the witness stand, everything about her was up for grabs—her blackness, her education, her English, […]

]]> 0 12d1a1b71183d88205de395d06fcbd26 Blog: Noticias and upcoming events from La Bloga in the group Chicana and Chicano Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/40555/ Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:00:00 -0400 !–[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]–!–[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]–!–[if gte mso 9]> […]

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