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Symbols of Resistance
MCC Theater
Symbols of Resistance looks at the history of the Chican@ Movement as it emerges in the 1970s with a focus on events in Colorado and Northern New Mexico. The documentary explores the struggle for land, the student movement, and community struggles against police repression. Specifically, it challenges the criminalization of immigration by emphasizing the history of the U.S. expansion and occupation of northern Mexico during the Mexican-American War (1846–48) – when “the border crossed people.” 1h 15 mins.
Race Matters Series
An African American and Latinx History of the United States Paul Ortiz
MCC Lounge
Paul Ortiz will discuss and sign copies of 'An African American and Latinx History of the United States,' his new book on the intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latina/o human rights. This book is a reinterpretation of United States history from the American Revolution to present keying on Black and Brown workers and social movement leaders who sought to democratize the country in ways we have too often forgotten--but must now remember in this time of national crisis. Paul Ortiz is Professor of History at the University of Florida.
Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 16th, 6 pm
La Hija de Jardineros / The Gardeners’ Daughter Alexandra “Lexx” Valdez
MCC Lounge
Alexandra “Lexx” Valdez is a Xicana creative who believes in collective growth through a transformative and sustainable creative process. Raised in the small agricultural town of Guadalupe, California, Lexx earned her BFA in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Lexx’s style can be characterized by its photo-collage aesthetic and the bold colors that she uses to create vibrantly-illustrated worlds that aim to uplift ancestral knowledge. In La Hija de Jardineros, Lexx Valdez presents a collection of digital collages that have been inspired by ancestral knowledge and the earth that grows it.
Julie Chávez Rodríguez
U.S. Immigration Policy in 2018: Evolving Notions of Citizenship
MCC Theater
Since 2017, the Trump Administration has drastically limited access to American citizenship, be it for refugees seeking to escape violence and start a new life in the United States or young undocumented immigrants brought to this county as children. Julie Rodríguez, state director and senior advisor to U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris, will survey U.S. immigration policy in 2018 and its impact on notions of citizenship. A former senior public engagement official to President Obama, Rodríguez will also address recent efforts to solve the immigration crisis and conclude with current efforts to resist and organize against the Trump Administration's deportation force.
This event is co-presented by the Critical Issues in America Series. The CRITICAL ISSUES IN AMERICA series is sponsored by the College of Letters and Science and in 2018 is organized by Professor Beth DePalma Digeser (History) and Professor Helen Morales (Classics, Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies), with co-sponsorship from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Equity, and the Academic Senate.
