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FeaturingJohn Rechy UCLA Medal Recipient

Aldo Acuña Maldita Vecindad

Rolando “Roco” Ortega Maldita Vecindad

Charlene Villaseñor Black UCLA Department of Art History

Audrey Harris Contributor

Juanita Heredia Contributor

Sandra Ruiz Contributor

Ariel Tumbaga Contributor

November 14, 2019Herbert Morris Humanities Seminar RoomRoyce Hall 3064:00–6:00 pm

A reception and book signing will follow the presentationBooks will be available for sale

Sponsored by

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center

UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese

for the award-winning

The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader, 1974–2016Moderated by Héctor Calderón, Editor

The Aztlán Mexican Studies

Reader, 1974-2016

Edited and Introduced by

Héctor Calderón

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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Presswww.chicano.ucla.edu

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$19.95 ISBN 978-0-89551-169-0

Distributed by the University of Washington Presswww.washington.edu/uwpress

The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader,

1974-2016Edited and Introduced by

Héctor Calderón

The ongoing cultural and political connections between Chicana/o and Mexican history are the focus of The Aztlán

Mexican Studies Reader, 1974–2016. Edited and introduced by Héctor Calderón, this collection of essays makes a rigorous case for the contributions of Chicana/o studies to the trans national study of Mexico. Included with the thirteen previously pub-lished pieces are three that were commissioned for this collection.

The first essay sets the stage with a historical overview that relates how the Chicano movement was rooted in the soil of conquest and colonialism in Mexico. Subsequent essays discuss a range of topics that stress interconnections between Chicana/os and Mexicans: transborder issues such as immigration and labor; Chicana/o and Mexican fiction; femicide and racism in Mexico and their reverberations on both sides of the border; and the development of Mexican art forms—including muralism, cinema, and music—in Mexico and the United States.