THE DYNAMICS OF CHICANA/O

CULTURAL LITERACY

Founded in 2000 with the assistance of a Rockefeller Foundation grant, the Dynamics of Chicana/o Cultural Literacy Program sponsors research residencies, workgroups, colloquium series, international conferences and mentoring opportunities for scholars and artists. Postdoctoral fellows in the program conduct research that focuses on the interaction of hybridity, cultural mobility and literacy in a transnational context. These projects explore the ways in which Chicana/o culture maps the flows and conflicts among forms of cultural literacy as well as the ways diverse global processes affect this cultural literacy.

Affiliated with the Department of Chicano Studies, the Center for Chicano Studies specializes in interdisciplinary scholarship on Chicana/o and Mexicana/o society and culture. The Center's research emphasizes the complex processes that affect, and are affected by, diverse populations. This research also examines the production of social identities as structured by race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class, as well as the ways in which identities alter over time due to interactions with local, regional and global forces. As part of this larger mission, the Rockefeller program advances knowledge of these interactive forces and their affect on the production of competing literacies as represented in Chicana/o cultural texts.

Download the Original Proposal to the Rockefeller Foundation in PDF

Download a Working Bibliography for the Chicana/o Cultural Dynamics Project in PDF

For more information regarding the Rockefeller Program contact Carl Gutierrez-Jones Professor and Chair of the English Department UCSB.

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