EVENTS - FALL 2009
CENTER FOR MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH

Nov. 18, 7 p.m., Providence Hall, Blue Room:  CMASR hosts reading by John Morán González, author of new book, "Border Renaissance"
González explores Mexican-American literary renaissance prompted by Texas Centennial

The Center for Mexican American Studies and Research will present a reading at 7 p.m. on Nov. 18, 2009, by John Morán González, whose forthcoming book, "Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature," was released in November by University of Texas Press. Free Admission.

FROM BOOK DESCRIPTION: "The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican Americans created literary responses that critiqued these racialized representations while forging a new bilingual, bicultural community within the United States. The development of a modern Tejana identity, controversies surrounding bicultural nationalism, and other conflictual aspects of the transformation from mexicano to Mexican American are explored in this study."

González is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) at Princeton University and earned two graduate degrees from Stanford University. He is the recipient of major fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation. At UT-Austin, he is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS), the Department of American Studies, the Program in Comparative Literature, and the Center for Women and Gender Studies. Visit his UT-Austin faculty page online.


PAST FALL 2009 EVENTS:


Oct. 26:  Deborah Paredez, PhD, author/UT-Austin faculty, "Selenidad: Selena, Latinos and the Performance of Memory"
In her book, Paredez examines the outpouring of grief that occurred after the Tejano singer's death at the age of 23 and the broader impact this "posthumous celebration" has had culturally and politically in the United States. Read more online about Paredez,who teaches courses about race and performance at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Oct. 22: Giselle Stern Hernández, performer/writer, "The Deportee's Wife"
The CMASR hosted this event, together with the Center for Women in Church and Society, the Department of Mission and Ministry, and the Department of Religious Studies and Theology.

Hernández has performed her one-woman shows, which address issues around race, class, gender and privilege, in Mexico and the United States since 2007. Visit her Web site: www.gsternhernandez.com. 

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