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Week of Events
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“‘A Toda Madre (ATM)’: Migrant Dreams and Nightmares in El Norte”
“‘A Toda Madre (ATM)’: Migrant Dreams and Nightmares in El Norte”
A talk by Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor, Department of History, UCSB Relying on dozens of personal letters exchanged among Mexican male migrants across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s, this talk by Miroslava Chávez-García (UCSB Department of History) probes migrants' longing for economic opportunity, masculine affirmation, and emotional fulfillment. As the migrants' correspondence illustrates, they relied on each […]
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Honoring a Chicana Activist Dignity Warrior: The Life and Work of Alicia Escalante
Honoring a Chicana Activist Dignity Warrior: The Life and Work of Alicia Escalante
A reception honoring Alicia Escalante, life-long community activist. Please join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO), who recently donated her papers to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the UCSB Library. Escalante organized the ELAWRO in 1967 after tiring of […]
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France Winddance Twine, Sociology, UCSB, “Diversity, Sexuality and Inequality in the San Francisco Tech Industry.”
France Winddance Twine, Sociology, UCSB, “Diversity, Sexuality and Inequality in the San Francisco Tech Industry.”
Twine is the author, most recently, of Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class & Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (2015); Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, Militarism (2013); and A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010). A copy of one of Twine's recent articles on this topic, "Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating […]