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- 3:00 to 3:45 pm: for visiting students from local middle and high schools. Location: USU Northridge Center (This session of the event is full)<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
- 4:00 to 5:30pm: for the general CSUN community and guests. Location: USU Grand Salon (This session of the event is full)<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Learn more and register to attend here.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Watch the video “Untold. Ellen Ochoa : The First Female Hispanic Astronaut (2022)”<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Below, you will find a selection of eBooks freely available through the University Library that explore and reflect upon the history and contemporary experiences of Latinx communities, and celebrate their rich cultures and traditions. For even more books uplifting Latinx voices and experiences, be sure to visit our book display in the library\u2019s lobby on the\u00a0first floor.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Latina Legacies : Identity, Biography, and Community<\/em> (2005) by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia S\u00e1nchez Korrol<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\u201cSpanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom<\/em> (2010) by Priscilla Pe\u00f1a Ovalle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\u201cIntroducing the concepts of “inbetween-ness” and “racial mobility” to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, Priscilla Pe\u00f1a Ovalle focuses on the careers of Dolores Del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Carmen Miranda, Rita Moreno, and Jennifer Lopez.\u00a0Dance and the Hollywood Latina\u00a0helps readers better understand how the United States grapples with race, gender, and sexuality through dancing bodies on screen.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance<\/em> (2019) by Andrea J. Pitts, Mariana Ortega, Jose Medina<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is not a survey or ‘introductory’ text, but a rich and vibrant engagement with and expansion of that set of developing traditions gathered under the rubric of Latinx and Latin American feminisms. As such, and drawing together as it does a wide generational and international spectrum of thinkers,\u00a0Theories of the Flesh\u00a0is on the cutting edge of profound and important interventions in philosophy and feminist theory. This is a truly important collection that will, in due course, come to stand as a watershed moment in the ongoing efforts (movidas) by Latinx and Latin American feminists to shift the geography of reason.\u201d –\u00a0American Philosophical Association Newsletter<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Chicana Movidas : New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era<\/em> (2018) edited by Dionne Espinoza, Mar\u00eda Eugenia Cotera, Maylei Blackwell <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\u201cWith contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era<\/em> demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self <\/em>(2016) by Mariana Ortega<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\u201cThis original study intertwining Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory offers a new philosophical approach to understanding selfhood and identity. Focusing on writings by Glor\u00eda Anzald\u00faa, Mar\u00eda Lugones, and Linda Mart\u00edn Alcoff, Mariana Ortega articulates a phenomenology that introduces a conception of selfhood as both multiple and singular. Her Latina feminist phenomenological approach can account for identities belonging simultaneously to different worlds, including immigrants, exiles, and inhabitants of borderlands. Ortega’s project forges new directions not only in Latina feminist thinking on such issues as borders, mestizaje, marginality, resistance, and identity politics, but also connects this analysis to the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and to such concepts as being-in-the-world, authenticity, and intersubjectivity.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Woman Hollering Creek, and Other stories<\/em> (1991) by Sandra Cisneros <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\u201cA collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and the winner of the 2019 PEN\/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The lovingly drawn characters of these stories give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border with tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Undocumented Americans <\/em>(2020) by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/figure>\r\n\r\n“Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she\u2019d tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer\u2019s phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants\u2014and to find the hidden key to her own.”<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Distance Between Us : A Memoir<\/em> (2013) by Reyna Grande<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\u201cWhen Reyna Grande’s father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from \u2018El Otro Lado\u2019 (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in the already overburdened household of their stern, unsmiling grandmother. The three siblings are forced to look out for themselves; in childish games they find a way to forget the pain of abandonment and learn to solve very adult problems. When their mother at last returns, the reunion sets the stage for a dramatic new chapter in Reyna’s young life: her own journey to \u2018El Otro Lado\u2019 to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
- 4:00 to 5:30pm: for the general CSUN community and guests. Location: USU Grand Salon (This session of the event is full)<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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