Publications and Presentations
The Advisory Committee members and Research Faculty affliliated with the Center for Chicano Studies have 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.
Publications
Book
Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexicana/o and Native American Struggles for Representation (forthcoming Duke University Press).
Co-Edited Volume
Millennial Anxieties: Chicana/o Cultural Studies in the 21st Century (under review, Indiana University Press)
Article
"Docile Bodies and the Fear of the Other." In Bad Subjecs Political Education for Everyday Life (forthcoming, NYU Press).
Presentations
"Gender, Mestizaje and Decolonization in the New Millennium." Center for Chicano Studies, April 14, 2000
"Borders, Violence and Globalization." Townsend Humanities Center at UC Berkeley, May 8, 2000
Publications
Articles
"Publicity Went To The Dogs," Santa Barbara-News Press, June 13, 2000.
"Looking Backward, Moving Adelante: A Critical Analysis of the African-American and Chicano Civil Rights Movements" (forthcoming in Uncompleted Independence: The Creation and Revision of American Racial Thinking).
Presentations
"Globalization From Above vs. Globalization From Below: Challenging the WTO, IMF, and World Bank," (with Carrie Plescia, and Tony Samara). Communities Confronting Capitalist Globalization Conference. UC Santa Barbara. April 2000.
"Moving Beyond the Black/White Binary: Chicanas/os and the African-American Civil Rights Movement" (with Oscar Fierro), National Association of Chicana and Chicano Scholars (NACCS) Conference. Portland, Oregon. March 2000
"Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Organizing: The Phillips Van-Heusen Campaign, the Battle in Seattle, and Beyond." Latin American Studies Association Conference. Miami, Florida. March 2000
"U.S. Labor, the Battle in Seattle, and Santa Barbara." Bringing Seattle Back Home: Santa Barbara Action. Community Town Hall Meeting. Faulkner Gallery. Santa Barbara, California. February 2000.
"The Battle in Seattle and the Anti- Sweatshop Movement." World Trade Organization Teach-In, Faulkner Gallery. Santa Barbara, California. December 1999.
"The World Trade Organization, the Anti-Sweatshop Movement, and Ethnic Studies." Thirty Years of Ethnic Studies Research: A Dialogue Among UC Ethnic Studies Faculty. UC Santa Barbara. November 1999.
Awards
Faculty Career Development Award (FCDA), 1999-2000
Academic Senate, Commitee on Research Grant, 1999-2000
UC MEXUS Small Grants, 1999-2000
Publications
Articles
"Latino/a Identities: Social Diversity and U.S. Politics" (with Ron Schmidt, Sr. and Rodolfo Torres). In PS: Political Science and Politics (October 2000).
"Multiple Identity and Coalition Building: How Identity Differences within Us Enable Radical Alliances Among Us." Contemporary Justice Review Vol 2(2) pp. 111-126, 1999.
"Breaking the Silence: Developments in the Publication and Politics of Chicana Creative Writing, 1973-1998." In David Maciel, Maria Herrera-Sobek and Isidro Ortiz eds., Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends, University of Arizona Press, 2000.
Presentation
"Multiple Identity and Practices of Democratic Citizenship: Influences on Political Judgment and Activism," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA September 2-5, 1999.
Awards
Center for Chicano Studies Research Grant
Faculty Career Development Award
ISBER Faculty Grant
Publications
Books
Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography (Univ.of Texas Press, 2000).
Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman" (co-authored with Frances Esquibel Tywoniak). University of California Press, 2000.
Article
"Fray Angelico Chavez and Oppositional Historical Narrative." In Ellen McCracken, ed., Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest.
Presentation
"Latino Popular Religiosity: Expressions of Faith and Ethnicity." Catholic Historical Association, Santa Fe, April, 2000
Publications
Book
Critical Race Narratives (forthcoming, New York University Press).
Working Paper
"Colorblindness and Acting Out" (22pp.). Center for Chicano Studies, Fall 1999.
Virtual Publication
"Affirmative Action and Diversity: A Web Site for Research," on-line
May, 1996: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/aa.html (500,000 visits as of May
2000)
Presentation
"The Global Turn in Curriculum." Plenary Speaker. "Diversity and Curriculum" Conference, UCSC, April 14, 2000.
Grants
The Rockefeller Foundation for the Humanities Fellowships, January 2000. Project title: "The Dynamics of Chicana/o Cultural Literacy" ($288,000).
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB. Faculty Research Grant.
"Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System"
($3000).
Publications
Articles
"Toward spatially integrated social science" (with M. Goodchild, L. Anselin, R. Appelbaum). International Regional Science Review 23(2):139-159.
"Orientations to motherhood among pregnant Mexican and Mexican-origin women: A bi-national study of women's perceptions and of their male partner's support" (with Guendelman, S., K. Malin, and Vargas, P. N). Social Science and Medicine (forthcoming).
Review
"The Anthropology of Infectious Disease, Marcia Inhorn and Peter Brown, eds. (1997)." Journal of Political Ecology, vol. 6, 1999.
Presentations
"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 (April 1999).
"Reproductive health and temporalities: Stratified reproduction in the US." Discussant at American Anthropological Assoc. meetings, invited panel, "It's about time: Integrating a temporal perspective into reproductive research" (November 1999).
"Community conflict at the agricultural-urban interface: Concerns over the health effects of agricultural pesticides." Herr Harthorn, B. & S. Stonich Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology, San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2000.
Publications
Books
Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends (co-edited with David R. Maciel, Isidro D. Ortiz). Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower? (co-edited with Shirley Geok-Lin Lim). New York: Publications of the Modern Language Association, 2000.
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume III (co-edited with Virginia Sanchez Korrol). Houston: Arte Pœblico Press, 2000.
Chicana Literary and Artistic Expressions: Culture and Society in Dialogue. Santa Barbara, CA: Center for Chicano Studies Publication Series, UCSB, 2000.
Articles
"Gaspar Perez de VillagraÕs Memorial: Aristotelian Rhetoric and the Discourse of Justification in a Colonial Genre." Genre, vol. XXXII, Numbers 1 & 2 (Spring-Summer, 1999):85-98. [ special issue edited by Rudolfo Anaya and Robert Con Davis-Undiano].
"Art and Society in Dialogue: Ethnonational Consciousness in the Art of Rosa M." In Chicana Literary and Artistic Expressions: Culture and Society in Dialogue. Santa Barbara, Ca.: Center for Chicano Studies Publication Series, UCSB, 2000. Pp. 165-184.
"New Approaches to Old Chroniclers: Contemporary Critical Theories and the Perez de Villagra Epic. In Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume III, edited by Maria Herrera-Sobek and Virginia Sanchez Korrol. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2000. Pp. 154-162.
"The Internationalization of Chicano Studies." In Etnicidad y Pobreza. Edited by Roberto Ca–edo Villarreal and Maria del Carmen Barragan Mendoza. Acapulco: Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, forthcoming. Also translated version: "La internacionalizacion de los estudios chicanos."
"AmŽrico Paredes: A Tribute." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. no. 16(2) (Winter 2000):235-262,
"In Search of La Malinche: Pictorial Representations of a Mytho-Historical Figure." In U.S. Latina/Latino Perspectives on La Malinche. Edited by Rolando Romero. Houston: Arte Pœblico Press, forthcoming.
"Danger! Children at Play: Patriarchal Ideology and the Construction of Gender in Spanish Language Hispanic/Chicano ChildrenÕs Songs and Games." In Chicana Folklore, edited by Norma Cantu and Olga Najera. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2001.
"Engendering Immigration in Chicano/a Fiction: Patriarchal Foundational Narratives and Women's Search for Self Knowledge. In The Literary Legacy of New Immigrants in the United States. Edited by Laura P. Alonso Gallo and Antonia Dominguez Migela. Huelva, Spain: Universidad de Huelva, forthcoming, 2000.
"The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It: Nature and the Quest for Social Justice in Chicano Literature." In Nature's Nation Reconsidered: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis. Selected Papers for Proceedings for the European Association for American Studies (E.A.A.S.). Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria. Forthcoming.
Presentations
Keynote Addresses
"The Migrant Experience in Mexican Literature." NEH Seminar on Bilingual/Bicultural Education. University of Texas, San Antonio, July 14, 1999.
"Voices of Migration and Exile: Anguish and Hope without Frontiers Series." California State University, Chico, December 1, 1999
"Environment Matters: Ecological Feminist Theory and Chicana Literary and Artistic Expressions." The 18th Annual David L. Kubal Memorial Lecture. California State University, Los Angeles, January 20, 2000.
"Chicanas in the New Millennium: Challenges and Opportunities." 5th Annual Images of Women Latina Conference: Afirmaci—n y Poder, Southwest Texas State University, March 25, 2000.
Conference Papers
"In Search of La Malinche: Pictorial Representations of a Mytho-Historical Figure." U.S. Latina/Latino Perspectives on La Malinche Conference. University of Illinois, Urbana, August 26-28, 1999.
"Engendering Immigration in Chicano/a Fiction: Patriarchal Foundational Narratives and Women's Search for Self Knowledge. The Literary Legacy of New Immigrants in the United States. Universidad de Huelva, Spain, November 8-10, 1999.
"Sherlock Holmes at the Border: The Chicano/a Detective Novel." Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands Conference. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, November 10-12, 1999.
"Family on the Margins: The Dysfunctional Family in Lucha CorpiÕs Detective Novels." Research Seminar: Representing the Contemporary American Family in the Arts, Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Spain February 10-12, 2000.
"The Internationalization of Chicano Studies." Etnicidad y Pobreza Conference. Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, Acapulco, Mexico, March 24-28, 2000.
"Family on the Margins: The Dysfunctional Family in Lucha CorpiÕs Detective Novels." La Pagina Roja: The Crime Page: Symposium on the Chicano/a Detective Novel. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, March 31-April 1, 2000.
Featured Speaker at Universidad de Leon, in Leon, Spain. Topic: "Contemporary Chicana Literature." April 4, 2000.
"The Chicano/a Detective Novel and the Politics of Cultural Production." II Congreso Internacional de Literatura Chicana [Nazioarteko Literatura Chicanoaren Kongresua], Vitoria-Gasteiz, Pa’s Basco, Spain. April 5-6, 2000.
"The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It: Nature and the Quest for Social Justice in Chicano Literature." Nature's Nation Reconsidered: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis. Biannual conference of the European Association for American Studies (E.A.A.S.). Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria. April 14-17, 2000.
Award
Nueva Critica Literaria (New Literary Criticism) Award from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, October 24, 1999.
Publications
Working Paper
"California's Initiative Process: Tyranny of the Majority or Tyranny of the
Minority?" Center for Chicano Studies, Fall 1999.
Publications
Books
Vida y aventuras del mas celebre bandido mexicano, Joaquin Murrieta. Sus grandes proezas en California. De Ireneo Paz. Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1999. Introducci—n de Luis Leal, pp. 1-95.
Contributions to Books
"Octavio Paz." Dictionary of Literary Biography Year Book: 1998. Detroit: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1999, pp. 310-317.
"Jose Acosta Torres (1925-)." Chicano Writers. Third Series. Ed. by Francisco A. Lomeli and Carl R. Shirley, Detroit: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1999, pp. 3-5.
"Andrew Garcia (1854-1948)." Chicano Writers. Third Series. Ed. by Francisco A. Lomel’ and Carl R. Shirley, Detroit: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1999, pp. 88-91.
"Maria Cristina Mena (Maria Cristina Chambers 1893-1965)." Chicano Writers. Third Series. Ed. by Francisco A. Lomeli and Carl R. Shirley, Detroit: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1999, pp. 88-91.
"Saœl Sanchez (1943-)." Chicano Writers. Third Series. Ed. by Francisco A. Lomeli and Carl R. Shirley, Detroit: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1999, pp. 261-263.
"With David Conde. "Joe Navarro (1953-)." Chicano Writers. Third Series. Ed. by Francisco A. Lomeli and Carl R. Shirley, Detroit: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1999, pp. 164- 166.
Introduction to Books
"Introduccion" a Francisco Jimenez, Cajas de cart—n. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Articles and Essays
"Literatura chicana siglo XX: Realismo magico y posmodernidad." Ventana Abierta 2.7 (Oto–o, 1999): 13-16.
"La presencia del espanol en la literatura chicana." REDEN: Revista Espa–la de Estudios Norteamericanos. No. 15-16, A–o IX (Universidad de Alcala Henares, 1998): 10-17. Also in La lengua espanola en los Estado Unidos. Javier Wimer, Coordinador. Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1999, pp. 196-201.
"En torno a Joaquin Murrieta: historia y literatura." Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. Vol. III. ed. by Maria Herrera-Sobek and Virginia S‡nchez Coarrol. Houston, TX: Arte Pœblico Press, 2000. PP. 440-449.
"Vida y aventuras de idioma espa–ol en los Estados Unidos." Ventana Abierta 2.8 (Primavera 2000): 11-16.
Book Reviews
New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity. By Ellen McCracken. Ventana Abierta 2.7 (Oto–o 1999): 97.
Presentations
"Juan Rulfo y el realismo m‡gioco." Secretar’a de Cultura, Guadalajara, MŽxico, July 17, 1999.
"Aspectos de la literatura del norte de MŽxico." Museo de Linares, N.L., MŽxico, August 7, 1999.
"La Malinche and La Llorona Dichotomy: The Evolution of Myth." University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, August 28, 1999.
Editorial Work
Ventana Abierta. Vol. II, No. 7 (Otono, 1998) Ventana Abierta. Vol. II, No. 8 (Primavera, 1999)
Awards and Honors.
Homenaje. Consejo de la Cultura Nuevoleonesa, Guadalajara, Jal., Julio 17, 1999.
Homenaje. Ayuntamiento de Linares, N.L., Agosto 7, 1999.
Doctor of Literature. Honoris Causa, University of Illinois, May 14, 2000.
Publications
Co-Edited Volume
Dictonary of Literary Biography: Chicano Writers, Third Series, editors F. Lomeli & C. Shirley, Vol. 209 Detroit: Gale Group, l999.
Dictionary Articles
"Naomi Quinonez," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 209, pp.226-31.
"Cecile Pineda," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 209, pp. 202-11
"Jose Montalvo," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 209, pp. 155-159
Articles
"La frontera mexico-norteamericana: El shock del futuro en la cortina de tortilla (Mexamerica, Lamex o Aztlan?)." In Fronteras: espacios de encuentros y transgresiones. Costa Rica: EDUCA, l999. 6l-74.
"Foreward." In Platicas: Conversations with Hispano Writers of New Mexico,
edited by Nasario Garcia. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2000. x-xll
2.
Presentations
"Evolution, Themes, Trends in Chicano Literature," NEH Lecture Series (l4 hrs), University of Oregon, summer l999.
"The Roaming Texts of Border Literature," Ist International Conference on Modern Nort-American Literature: The Literary Legacy of New Immigrants in the United States, Huelva (Spain), Nov. 9, l999.
"Chicano Literature: Beyond the Tortilla Curtain," Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderland Conference, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Nov. l2, l999.
"There are Borders and There are Borders: Political, Geographic, Textual," Primer Simposium Internacional sobre Etnicidad y Pobreza, Acapulco (Mex), March 24, 2000.
"Concentric Circles in 'Real Women Have Curves'", Second International Conference on Chicano Literature and Culture, Vitoria (Spain) April 5, 2000.
Publications
Book
State Formation and Democracy in Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Presentation
"Globalization and the Reform of the State in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil." Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, Miami, March 2000.
Publications
Book Chapter
"Mexican Immigrants in Courts" (with Bobby R. Vincent and Kathryn Vincent). In Immigrants in Courts. Eds. Joanne I. Moore and Margaret E. Fisher, University of Washington Press, 1999: 73-97.
Articles
"Las nuevas comunidades mexicanas en los espacios rurales de los Estados Unidos de America: a proposito de una refexion acerca del quehacer antropologico." Areas, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Volumen 19 (1999): 153-79.
"Farm workers putting down roots in Central Valley communities." In California Agriculture 2000 (54:1) January-February 2000. University of California, Division of Agriculture and natural Resources.
Selected Presentations
"Agriculture, Immigration, and the Rise of New Farm Worker Communities in Rural California." Anthropology Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, Dec. 10, 1999.
"History and lessons from the transformation of Rural California Project." UC/Mexus Outreach Workshop, Merced, California, August 30, 1999.
"Las nuevas comunidades mexicanas en los espacios rurales de los Estados Unidos de America." Seminario Permanente Sobre Migracion Internacional, Decima Jornada, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, December 3, 1999.
Publications
Articles
Chicana Political Consciousness: Renegotiating Culture, Class and Gender with Oppositional Practices" (with Pesquera, B.M.). Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 24:1 (Spring 1999):1-32.
"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.
Report
Latinos in Isla Vista: A Report on the Quality of Life Among Latino Immigrants.
Research Report, Center for Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara, August 1999.
Selected Presentations
"Chicana Political Consciousness: Renegotiating Culture, Class and Gender with Oppositional Practices" (with Pesquera, B.M.). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 1999.
"Mexican Women and Transnational Dilemmas." The Future of Chicano Studies Conference. UC San Diego, May 8, 1999.
"Navigating Between Two Worlds": Chicana Faculty in Higher Education." Sociology Colloquium. University of California, Los Angeles. May 23, 2000.
"Community Teaching in Mathematics and Science," Keynote Address. Annual Community Teaching Fellowship in Mathematics and Science Symposium. UC Santa Barbara. May 20, 2000.
"Navigating Between Two Worlds": Chicana Faculty and the Subtext of Opportunity in Higher Education." Sociology Colloquium. University of California, Santa Cruz. May 8, 2000.
"Cinco de Mayo," Keynote Address. Santa Barbara City College. May 5, 2000. Currently I am organizing and presiding over the Regular Session on "Feminist Theory" for the American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 12-16, 2000.
Grants
1999 "ENLACE y Avance: Students and Families Empowered for Success" (Co-P.I. with J. Manuel Casas). W.K.K. Kellogg Foundation, $100,000.
