Publications and Presentations
The Advisory Committee members and Research Faculty affliliated with the Center for Chicano Studies has produced an impressive body of work this year. A brief overview of their research activites is included under Research Highlights, but here we present their professional publications, presentations, and grant activity.
RALPH AMBRUSTER-SANDOVAL
Publications
"Cross-Border Labor Organizing in the Garment Industry: The Struggle of
Guatemalan Maquiladora Workers at Phillips Van-Heusen," Latin American
Perspectives and "Cross-border Labor Organizing in the Garment and
Automobile Industries." Journal of World-Systems Research
Presentations
"Challenging the Global Sweatshop: The Central American Maquiladora Industry
and the Dilemmas of Cross-Border Labor Organizing." Cal. St. Los Angeles.
"Activism and Academia: Sociology and the Struggle for Social Change" Taking Charge of Economic Change: Exploring the Common Struggles of the Peoples of the Americas Conference. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Toronto, Canada. August
"Race and Class Inequality on the Eve of the 21st Century."
Keynote Address. Racial/Ethnic Harmony Week. Kansas State University.
October. Co-moderator (with Edwina Barvosa Carter) of closing session: "Where to we
go from here? 30 year Celebration of El Plan de Santa Barbara. UC Santa Barbara, May 24,
1999
EDWINA BARVOSA-CARTER
Publications
"Multiple Identity and Coalition Building: How Identity Differences Within Us Enable Radical Alliances Among Us." Contemporary Justice Review 1999 Vol. 2(2) pp. 111-126 (in press).
Presentations
"Multiple Identity and Coalition Politics: Implications for Multiethnic
Coalition Building and Shifting Coalitional
Possibilities in Multicultural Societies." Paper presented at the Southwestern
Social Science Association Annual Meeting San Antonio, TX, March 31 - April 3, 1999
"Multiple Identity and Coalition Building by U.S. Latinos" Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle Washington, March 23-26, 1999.
Co-moderator (with Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval) of closing session: "Where to we go from here? 30 year Celebration of El Plan de Santa Barbara. UC Santa Barbara, May 24, 1999
Other - significant service positions held:
Co-Chair Division One (Political Thought: Historical Approaches) of the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA Sept 1-4, 1999.
Co-Chair Ford Foundation Annual Meeting of Minority Fellows, Washington D.C., October 1999
Community Service:
Grade school outreach presentations: La Cumbre (8th grade) and La Patera
(5th Grade) schools April 28, 1999
NORMA E. CANTU,
Center for Chicano Studies
Publications
"La Quinceañera: Towards an Ethnographic Analysis of a Life-Cycle Ritual," Southern
Folklore 56:1. 1999.
Excerpts from Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera in Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War, Jorge Mariscal, ed. Univeristy of California Press, 1999.
"Decolonizing the Mind" and "Trojan Horse" in Floricanto Sí: U.S. Latina Poetry. New York: Penguin, 1998.
Electronic Publications:
"Adios en Madrid," Proyecto Sheherazade, http://www.princeton.edu/~enriquef/adiosen.html June, 1999.
"I can tell you that she writes: an Introduction to Sandra Cisneros," http://www.library.ucsb.edu/libwaves/jun99/
Presentations
"Teatro y Teatristas: The Role of Chicanas in the Formation of a Dramatic
Tradition," Hijas del Quinto Sol conference, St. Mary's University, San
Antonio, TX July 17, 1999.
"Literatura Fronteriza," Encuentro de Escritores de Tamaulipas y Tejas, Nuevo Laredo, Tamps. May 2, 1999
"Changing Chicana Traditions: A Round Table Discussion," National Association of Chicana/o Studies, San Antonio, TX April 30, 1999
"The Role of Chicanas in the Formation of a Chicana Dramatic Tradition, " National Association of Chicana/o Studies, San Antonio, TX April 30, 1999.
"Borderlands Culture and Literature," Earlham College, Richmond Indiana, April 26, 1999.
"Writing Lives," A conversation with Diane Milddlebrook and Norma E. Cantú, Stanford Univesity, April 1
Conferencia Magistral, "La Literatura Fronteriza: Una Plática" Asociacion Rio Bravo, Universidad de Monterrey, Garza García, Nuevo León, 26 March, 1999.
"Hyperlinks and Life: Chicana Writing in the 21st Century,"
Northern California National Association of Chicano/a Studies, California State
University, Monterey Bay, February 13, 1999
"Pastoras and Malinches: Women in Chicano Folk Drama," Recovering the U.S.
Literary Heritage, University of Houston, November , 1998
"La Quinceañera: A Gendered Racialized Ritual," and Respondent to the Panel
on Autobiographical Writing, American Folklore Association, Portland, OR October
30-November 2, 1998
Al Filo de la Literatura, "La Literatura en las Fronteras," Bellas Artes,
Mexico, D.F. October 7, 1998.
Panel Presentation on Papelitos Guardados, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social,
University of California, Santa Cruz, August, 1998
Invited Talks:
"Latinas in the 21st Century: A Look Ahead," Unidad y
Poder: Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders, Austin, Texas. February 28, 1999.
"Borderlands Culture and Tradition," Public Humanities Program at the
Salado Public Library, The Humanities Institute at Salado, Salado, Texas, February 26,
1999
"Chicanas: On the verge of the past and the future," Portland State
University, Portland, Oregon, March 1, 1999.
Over 12 talks and presentations to classes (Departments: Chicano Studies, English,
Spanish, Sociology, Women's Studies) at University of California–Santa Barbara,
1998-99 academic year.
Member of the Folk and Traditional Arts panel for the National Endowment for the Arts, Nov 5, 6, 1998
Most recent readings and performances:
Multicultural Center Series, UCSB, May 27, 1999
Future Leaders of America, UCSB, May 15, 1999
Texas A&M International University, May 3, 1999
Stanford University, April 13, 1999
Sonoma State University, April, 1999
University of California, Berkeley, April 1999
California State University, Monterey Bay, February 15, 1999
Salado High School, February 28, 1999
University of Texas, Austin, TX Nov ember 11, 1998.
Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX November 9, 1998.
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, October 29, 1998.
San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego, October 14-15, 1998.
Copyright Texas--San Antonio Public Library, September 13, 1998.
University of Texas–San Antonio, Department of English, September 11, 1998.
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, University of California, Santa Cruz, August,
1998.
Community Presentations:
Los Matachines de La Santa Cruz, Laredo Public Library, May 3, 1999.
A reading from Canícula, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, February 19, 1999
A reading from Canícula: Santa Barbara Associates Annual Dinner Santa Barbara
Associates, January 31, 1999
Grants
VICTOR FUENTES and LUIS LEAL
UC MEXUS and Center for Chicano Studies
Publications
Ventana Abierta: Revista Latina de Literatura, Arte Y Cultura
Presentations
Presentation of the Fall and Spring Issues of Ventana Abierta: Revista Latina de Literatura, Arte Y Cultura October, 1999 and May, 1999.
Readings from Ventana Abierta: Revista Latina de Literatura, Arte Y Cultura at La Patera Elementary School, May 18, 1999
Grants
Proposal for publication assistance for Ventana
Abierta: Revista Latina de Literatura, Arte Y Cultura
CARL GUTIERREZ-JONES
UC Office of the President
Publications
"Colorblindness and Acting Out." Forthcoming in a collection edited by Donald Pease (Duke University Press): 40 page ms.
"Injury by Design." Cultural Critique 40 (fall 1998): 73-102.
"The New Western History: Theory and Trauma in the Work of Patricia
Limerick,"Arizona Quarterly 53:2 (summer 1997): 135-153; reprinted in The New
Western History: An Assessment. Edited by Forrest Robinson (University of Arizona
Press, 1998): 135-52.
VIRTUAL PUBLICATION:
"Affirmative Action and Diversity: A Web Site for Research," on-line May,
1996: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/aa.html (90,000 visits from Oct. 97 to Oct. 98)
(45,000 visits in December, 1998)
Presentations
"Critical Race Theory and Chicano Studies." The Future of Chicano Studies Conference, UC San Diego, May 8, 1999
"Inclusion, Exclusion and Cultural Literacy." Chicano Cultural Production Conference, UC Irvine, April 16, 1999.
"Critical Race Studies, Border Culture and the Promise of Storytelling." Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, December 29, 1998
"Encyclopedic Design." American Studies Association Conference, Seattle, November 22, 1998.
"Routes of Culture: An Institute on Migration and Culture." (organizer and presenter). Center for Chicano Studies, UCSB, November 7, 1998.
Grants
The Rockefeller Foundation for the Humanities Fellowships, January 1999.
Proposal title: "Border Migration in a Global Context." (proposal declined)
BARBARA HERR-HARTHORN
UC Office of the President
Publications
1998 "California farmworkers: Dilemmas in developing interventions for health and medical care concerns." B. Herr Harthorn Human Organization 57(3): 369-378
1999 (in press) Review of The Anthropology of Infectious Disease, Marcia Inhorn and Peter Brown, eds. (1997). Journal of Political Ecology
Presentations
"The history of biomedical discourse on the etiology and treatment of tuberculosis among Mexican immigrants in California, 1900-1930" American Anthropological Association, in a panel of the Society for Medical Anthropology, "Representations of Minority Populations in Biomedical Discourse and the Reproduction of Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes," Philadelphia. Dec/98
"Farmworkers in California: Issues of Race, Class & Gender" Guest lecture in Women, Culture & Development 180B, UC Santa Barbara. Jan/99
"GIS and Sociodemographic Data on Lompoc" B. Herr Harthorn, S.Stonich, & R. Powell. Guest presentation to Lompoc Interagency Work Group of CalEPA, Lompoc. Jan/99
"Chemical exposures, pregnancy, and newborn health among Mexican-born farmworkers in rural California" Society for Applied Anthropology, panel on "Occupational Health Issues among Immigrant Workers" Tucson, AZ, Apr/99
Grants
1998-00 NCGIA, UCSB Seed grants, "GIS and Health and Toxicity on the Ag-Urban
Interface" (3 awards through Sept. 99) S. Stonich co-PI.
1998-99 Center for Chicano Studies, UCSB SCR-43 research grant, "Post-natal Interviews, Family Factors in Maternal and Child Health among Farmworkers in Santa Barbara Co."
1999-00 (pending) UC MEXUS "The Production of Health Inequality: California Public Health, Mexican Immigrants, and Infectious Disease"
1999-00 (pending) Research Across Disciplines, Office of Research, UCSB "Community Conflict and Public Participation GIS on the Agricultural Urban Interface" S. Stonich, PI, M.Goodchild O.Chadwick, co-PIs.
1999-00 Center for Chicano Studies, UCSB "The Production of Health Inequality: Women Farmworkers in Central Coastal California"
MARIA HERRERA-SOBEK
UC Office of the President
Publications
BOOK EDITED: Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends. (co-edited with David Maciel, and Isidro Ortiz ) Tucson: University of Arizona Press, forthcoming, winter 2000.
ARTICLES:
"Folklore and Politics and the Construction of Magic Realism in Ana Castillo's So Far from God. In Primer Congreso Internacional en España de Lengua y Literatura Chicana, Rosa Murillo, editor. Granada, Spain: University of Granada, forthcoming.
"The Nature of Chicana Literature: Feminist Ecological Literary Criticism and Chicana Writers. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. 37(November, 1998), 89-100.
Co-authored with Francisco A. Lomelí and Teresa Márquez. "Trends and
Thematics in Chicano/a Writings in Postmodern Times." In Chicano
Renaissance:
Contemporary Cultural Trends. Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
forthcoming, winter, 2000.
"Geographies of Identities: Mapping Masculinity and Ethnicity in Acosta's
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo," in Shifting Boundaries: Place and Space in
Romance Cultures of North America. Groningen, Holland: Groningen University,
forthcoming.
CREATIVE WRITING:
Five poems on the Vietnam experience. In Chicanos and Vietnam, edited by Jorge Mariscal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Presentations
"Ecological Criticism and Chicana Art and Literature." English Department Colloquium Series, Florida State University, Tallahesse, Florida, Nov. 12-15, 1998.
Moderator for panel of conference "Recovering the Hispanic Literary Heritage," University of houston, Houston, Texas. December 3-6, 1999.
Invited Speaker: "La Llorona, la Malinche and La Virgen de Gudalupe: Mythic Figures in Chicana Artistic Expressions," San Juan Bautista, California Dec. 11-13, 1999.
Plenary Speaker at conference: "Looking for Oñate's Foot," University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, February 5-7, 1999.
Chicana/Latina Writers Seminar, University of Alcalé de Henares, Madrid, Spain, March 23-26, 1999.
"Recordando a Malinche: Representaciones pictoricas de Dona Marina-
La Lengua". Conference on U S Latino Literature and Performance. Casa de
América, Madird, Spain, May 7 - 13, 1999.
RAYMOND HUERTA
UC Office of the President
Publications
"Cena Con Don Octavio" homenaje to the poet Octavio Paz upon his death in
April of 1997, Ventana Abierta, Fall, 1998
Book in Progress: "Los Derechos Humanos de Los Chicanos en Los EU, 1948-1998"
Presentations
"Los Derechos de Los Indocumentados Despues De La Propuesta 187", at el
Auditorio de Posgrado, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Facultdad de Derecho, Mexico,
Tuesday, April 27
"Los Derechos Humanos de Los Chicano/a En Los EU", at the Sala de Titulaciones, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Facultdad de Derecho, Mexico, Thursday, April 29
LUIS LEAL
Center for Chicano Studies
Publications
Book
(with Víctor Fuentes). Don Luis Leal: Una vida y dos culturas. Conversaciones con
Víctor Fuentes. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review/Press, 1998.
Contributions to books
“Balbuena, Bernardo de 1562-1627 Writer.” In Michael S. Werner, ed.
Encyclopedia of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, pp. 125-26.
“Blanco, Lucio 1879-1922 General.” In Michael S. Werner, ed. Encyclopedia
of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, pp.147-48.
“Sor Juana y la crítica.” In K. Josu Bijuesca and Pablo A. J. Brescia, eds. Sor
Juana & Bieira, trescientos años después. México: Gráficos Diseñados en
Computadora, 1998, pp. 11-16. Anejo de la revista Tinta, Dept. of Spanish and
Portuguese, UCSB..
“Ocavio Paz.” Dictionary of Literary Biography Year Book: 1998.” Detroit:
A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1999, pp. 310-317.
Introductions to books
“Introduction” to João C. Barretto, Roberto G. Trujillo, and Andrés
Rodríguez, comps. Literature chicana; A Bibliography of Creative and Critical
Mexican American
Writing through 1996. San Francisco, CA: City College of San Fancisco, 1998.
(Contains also the Introduction to the first ed.)
“Prólogo.” Jesús Rosales. La narrativa de Alejandro Morales New York: Peter
Lang, 1999.
Articles and essays
“La radio y la cultura.” Los Programadores: The Radio-Newspress. Santa
Barbara, CA 2.23 (2a. quincena, feb. 1998): 8-9
“¿Qué es un latino?’ Ventana Abierta 1.4 (Primavera 1998): 17-21.
“Octavio Paz: El arco y la flecha.” Programadores 2.27 Santa Bárbara, CA
(1a. quincena, mayo 1998):p. 19.
“Hispanic Literature and American Literary History.” Anglistik (Würzburg,
Germany). 9.2 (1998): 41-45. .
“Desde México: la Guerra del 47 y el Tratadode Guadalupe Hidalgo.” Ventana
Abierta 2.5 (Otoño 1998): 20-26.
“Jesusa Palancares, soldadera: del estereotipo al personaje.” Tinta 2.2.
(1997): 21-28.
(publicado en Feb. de 1999).
“Latino Literary Journals.” Revista Literaria Iberoamericana Vol. 2 (1996-1997):
3-4.
(published in February 1999)
“Recordando a Roberto Brenes Mesén.” Ventana Abierta 2.6 (Primavera 1999):
16-21,
Books reviews
Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States, by Carlos C. Vélez-
Ibñez. Ventana Abierta 1.4 (Primavera 1998): 94-95.
La apariencia de las cosas, by Pablo Brescia. Chasqui 27.1 (1998): 145-47.
Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities, by Alfred Arteaga. Revista de Estudios
Hispánicos. 32.3 (October 1998):
The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Writers of Women in Mexican Literature, by
María Elena de aldés. Hispania 82.1 (March 1999): 90-91.
Why the Cocks Fight: inican, Haitian, and the Struggle for Hispaniola, By Michele Wucker.
Ventana Abierta 2.6 (Primavera 1999): 97-98.
Literatura de la Revolución Mexicana en el exilio: Fuentes para su
estudio. Oscar Somoza y Armando Maiguélez. Ventana Abierta
2.6 (Primavera 1999): 98-99.
Presentations
“Conflict and Adaptation after 1848.” Gene Autry Museum, Los Angeles, July 26,
1998.
“Magical Realism and Nuevo Mexicano Narrative. University of New Mexico,
Albuquerfue, October 22, 1998 (Second Annual lecture in the Critica Nueva: Lecture
on Chicana/o Literary Criticism Series).
“¿Conquista o compra? dos versiones del Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo.”
University of Houston, Dec. 4, 1998.
"The Significance of 1848." Arizona State University, Dec. 9, 1998.
"El sitio: soledad de soledades" [novela de Ignacio Solares]. UCSB, March 3,
1999.
“Celebrating 30 Years of Chicano Studies at UCSB.” UCSB, May 22, 1999.
Editorial work
Ventana Abierta. Vol. II, No. 5 (Otoño, 1998).
Ventana Abierta. Vol. II, No. 6 (Primavera, 1999).
Other activities
Served as honorary member in the Ph.D. committee of Gabriella Gutiérrez,
Stanford University
Served as honorary member in the Ph.D. Committee of Santiago Vaquera, UCSB,
Served in the Ph.D. Committee of Pablo Brescia, UCSB.
Introduced Mario T. García at the presentation of his book, The Making of a
Mexican American Myor: Raymond L. Telles of El Paso, at UCSB, May 26, 1998.
Awards and honors
Elected Member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española,
New York,
April 2, 1998
Recognized by UCSB as one of 1998 faculty members receiving awards. May 18, 1998.
Homenaje, NACCS, Mexico City, June 26, 1998.
Homenaje, Arizona State University, Dec. 9, 1998.
Homenaje, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, May 27, 1999.
FRANCISCO LOMELI
UC Office of the President
Publications
Reprint article "An Overview of Chicano Literature: From Origins to
Resurgence." Chicano Studies-Survey and Analysis, eds. D. Bixler-Marquez, C.
Ortega, R. Solorzano Torres, L. LaFarelle. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.,
l997. Pp. 285-294.
"Chicano Studies in the l990s: Developments, Shifts, and Challenges." Anglistik, 9.2 (September l998): 34-39. Wurzburg, Germany.
Editorial, Santa Barbara News Press
Books (submitted):
Cultural Legacy of New Mexico: Forms, Agencies and Discourse (University of New Mexico Press)
Books (In press):
Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 220.
Presentations
Professional Papers:
"Conquest and Captivity: Porfirio Gonzales' Historia de un cautivo."
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literature Conference, Houston, December 5, l998.
"Post-Modern Border Literature" Chico State, May 5, l999.
Community Presentations:
"Viva la Causa: Documentary Film and Images and Context," Building Bridges
Series, Santa Barbara, October 24, l998.
Other Activities:
TV Program "Simplemente Bilingüe," March 5, l999
TV Program "La Cultura en Santa Barbara," November 25, l999.
DENISE SEGURA
UC Office of the President
Publications
Book manuscript in progress (with Dr. Beatriz M. Pesquera) "Malinche
Speaks: Chicana Feminisms and Other Heresies for Empowerment."
forthcoming.
"Chicana Political Consciousness: Renegotiating Culture, Class and Gender with Oppositional Practices" (with B.M. Pesquera). Aztlán, A Journal of Chicano Studies (in press)
"Review Essay: Challenging the ChicanO Text: Toward a More Inclusive Contemporary 'Causa.'" SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society (in press).
"La Sufrida: Contradictions of Acculturation and Gender in Latina Health
Research" (with A. De La Torre).
Pp. 155-165 in Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience
Perspectives. Edited by Adele E. Clark and Virginia L. Oleson. New York:
Routledge, 1999.
Presentations
Research Seminar:
"Exploring Afro-Mexican Cultural Identities and Economic Dilemmas in Guerrero" June 16-17, 1999, Profs. Lomeli and Segura and Ray Huerta along with Dr. Seth Fisher (Emeritus, UCSB Sociology) met with scholars from the Autonomous State University of Guerrero. The purpose of the meeting was to explore potential research agendas between scholars in Guerrero and UCSB, particularly Chicano Studies and Black Studies faculty regarding the biracial (Black/Mexican-Indian) communities in Guerrero. The initial exchange was fruitful so that we intend to use Center funds to help defray costs associated with faculty from UCSB to visit potential research collaborators and research sites in Guerrero during Spring 2000. We anticipate securing other campus funds and funding from UCMEXUS for this enterprise. This project is part of the development of theMexico Research Program that includes exchange programs with Queretaro under the direction of Raymond Huerta.
Professor Segura, co-organized with Dr. Patricia Zavella, UC Santa Cruz, a binational faculty seminar on "Mexican Women in Transnational Context: Labor, Family and Migration." This seminar involved 24 faculty participants from other UC campuses and universities in Mexico including the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, CIESAS, and CONACYT and was held at UC Santa Cruz. At the seminar, participants discussed general approaches to questions of globalization, migration and the economic integration of women in the U.S. and Mexico. Women's cultural expressions, Chicana/Mexicana social identities and cultural transformations within a transnational context were debated at length. The seminar concluded with Drs. Segura and Zavella committing themselves to put together an anthology of readings in this area. Also, a steering committee to organize future research exchanges was formed with the goal of holding another seminar in one year to develop specific research projects and initiatives.
STEPHEN TREJO
UC Office of the President
Publications
"The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence from California" (with Daniel S.
Hamermesh), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
Presentations
"Why Do Mexican Americans Earn Low Wages?," Board of Trustees Dinner for the
Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, New York, November 1998.
"Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market," Meetings of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, New York, October 1998; UC Riverside, March 1999.
"The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence from California," UC Davis, May 1999.
Grants
"The Intergenerational Progress of Mexican Americans" (with Jeff Grogger of
UCLA), funded by the Public Policy Institute of California, 1998-2000, $59,893.
List of Graduate Research Assistants:
John Owens
Kevin McKinney
