Anthony P. Mora
3667 Haven Hall
Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109-1003

734.615.5766

apmora@umich.edu

UNIT ONE – HISTORIES

In Unit One we will learn about the historical background of Latina/os in the U.S. We will explore the similarities and differences of the Spanish and English colonial projects in the Americas; examine the ways in which the U.S. Mexico War (1848) and the Spanish American War (1898) contributed to the establishment of long-standing communities of Latina/os in the U.S.; and explore the complex politics of race, nation and citizenship that were shaped by these historical events.


Featured Speakers:

 

ANTHONY MORA Ph.D., History, Notre Dame University, 2002
Assistant Professor
Program in American Culture
Department of History
Mora’s principal research interests focus on the historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S. His first project, "Border Dillemmas” (in process with Duke University Press), explores the ways that racial and national ideologies influenced the meaning of Mexican identity along the nineteenth-century border. In addition, Mora has started research on a second major project that explores the relationship between African Americans and Mexican Americans in the early-twentieth-century Midwest.

apmora@umich.edu

Cotera

MARIA E. COTERA Ph.D. , Stanford University, 2001
Associate Professor
Program in American Culture
Department of Women's Studies
Director, Latina/o Studies Program

Maria Cotera began her career as a researcher and writer at the Chicana Research and Learning Center, a non-profit dedicated to supporting research by and about women of color. In 1989 she helped produce "Crystal City: A Twenty Year Reflection," a documentary about the role of young women in the 1969 Chicano student walkouts in Crystal City, Texas. From 1992 to 1994 Cotera worked with Dr. Jose Limon (University of Texas) on a recovery project that uncovered a lost manuscript by Texas folklorist Jovita González. Published in 1996, the manuscript, entitled Caballero, includes a critical epilogue by Cotera. Since that time she has published numerous essays on Jovita González and Sioux ethnographer Ella Deloria and has recovered other works by González. Having recently completed Native Speakers, her book about the ethnographic fiction of Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jovita González, Ms. Cotera's research now centers on recovering the theoretical writing and cultural productions of Chicana Feminists from 1965-1980.

mcotera@umich.edu

Ramirez

Daniel Ramírez Ph.D. , Duke University, 2005
Assistant Professor

Program in American Culture
Department of History

Daniel Ramírez, a Yale College graduate, received his Ph.D. in American Religious History from Duke University in 2005. Michigan's Department of History hired Ramírez starting in 2009-2010 academic year in "North American Religions." He arrives from Arizona State University and has also been a guest researcher at institutes in Mexico and the University of California San Diego. His current book project, “Migrating Faiths: A Social and Cultural History of Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico, 1906-1966” (supported by a Louisville Institute First Book Grant for Minority Scholars), reflect his interest in the intersections of migration, religion, and culture (especially music), and in religious cultural encounter in Reformation, colonial and modern periods.

Colin Gunckel, Ph.D. UCLA, 2009
Assistant Professor
Program in American Culture
Screen Arts and Cultures
Gunckel has a deep interest in American film history, particulary representations of Latinos. He also explores Mexican cinema, Chicano film and media, and Latinos in urban spaces. He joined Michigan's Latino/a Studies Program in 2009.
gunckel@umich.edu

Gunckel

 


UNIT TWO – MIGRATIONS

The first part of this Unit will be devoted to understanding the Immigration debate, and particularly the ways in which it impacts both public policy and public opinion with respect to Latina/o communities in the U.S. We will learn more about the history of Latinos in Michigan, and explore the various political, economic, political, and cultural encounters that have brought the peoples of Mexico, the Carribbean and Central America into the U.S.


Featured Speakers:

JESSE HOFFNUNG-GARSKOF Ph.D., Princeton, 2002
Associate Professor
Program in American Culture
Department of History
Primary Interests: Latin American, Caribbean , and Latina/o history, international migrations, music and popular culture, community research, and oral history.
Selected publications:
"Yankee Go Home . . . and Take Me With You: Imperialism and Migration in the Dominican Republic, 1961-1966." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Forthcoming. "The Prehistory of the Cadenú: Dominican identity, social class, and the problem of mobility, 1965-1978." Eds. Donna Gabaccia and Colin Wayne Leach. Immigrants in America: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Immigrant Experience in a Global Era. Routledge: 2003. "The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano, Negro, and Puerto Rican in New York. 1891-1917." Journal of American Ethnic History, Fall 2001.
jessehg@umich.edu

SILVIA PEDRAZA Ph.D., Chicago, 1980
Professor
Department of
Sociology
Program in American Culture
Primary Interests: The sociology of immigration, race, and ethnicity in America; the labor market incorporation of immigrants and ethnics in America; immigrants and refugees as social types; the sociology of the Cuban revolution and exodus; and comparative studies of immigrants and ethnics in America, historical and contemporary.
Selected Publications: Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America (edited with Ruben G. Rumbaut, Wadsworth Press, 1996); "Women and Migration: The Social Consequences of Gender," (Annual Review of Sociology 17, August 1991); "Immigration Research: A Conceptual Map," (Social Science History 14, Spring 1990); Political and Economic Migrants in America: Cubans and Mexicans (University of Texas Press, 1985); "Cuba's Revolution and Exodus" (Journal of the International Institute, Winter 1998); "Beyond Black and White: Latinos and Social Science Research on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America," (Social Science History, forthcoming in 1999).
spedraza@umich.edu

 

 


UNIT THREE – THE LATINO CONDITION

This Unit will focus on the health, educational, economic, and social issues that impact Latina/o communities. We will explore the politics of language; Latina/o sexuality; and the relationship between Latina/os and the State, paying special attention to the interactions between Latina/o youth and institutions like Public Education, Welfare, and the Prison Industrial Complex. Finally we will focus on representational politics and Latina/o communities, examining the ways in which mainstream media represents (or misrepresents) Latina/os in film, television and print, and how Latino/as have deployed various forms of media to combat these misrepresentations.


Featured Speakers:

LAWRENCE LA FOUNTAIN-STOKES Ph.D., Columbia, 1999
Assistant Professor
Program in American Culture
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Interests: Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latina/o Literature and Culture; Theater and Performance Studies; Queer, Lesbian, and Gay Studies; Women's and Gender Studies.
Selected Publications: "Dancing la Vida Loca: The Queer Nuyorican Performances of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero." Arnaldo Cruz Malavé and Martin Manalansan, IV, eds. Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. New York: New York University Press, 2002, pp. 162-175; "Tomboy Tantrums and Queer Infatuations: Reading Lesbianism in Magali García Ramis's Felices días, tío Sergio." Lourdes Torres and Immaculada Pertusa-Seva, eds. Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003, pp. 47-67.
lawrlafo@umich.edu

LORRAINE GUTIERREZ Ph.D., Michigan, 1989
Professor
School of Social Work
Department of Psychology
Interests: Community psychology; multicultural community participation and social action; empowerment processes on the individual and community levels; social welfare history; ethnic and gender identity; poverty; evaluations of gender and ethnically relevant AIDS prevention interventions.
Selected Publications: Empowerment in Social Work Practice: A Sourcebook, ed. with R.J. Parsons and E.O. Cox (Brooks/Cole Publishing, 1998); Education and Research for Empowerment Practice, ed. with P. Nurius (Center for Policy and Practice Research, University of Washington, 1994); with E. Lewis, Empowering Women of Color (forthcoming); Beyond Coping: An Empowerment Perspective on Life Events (forthcoming).
lorraing@umich.edu

AMY SARA CARROLL Ph.D., Duke University, 2004
MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry) Cornell University, 1995
Assistant Professor
Program in
American Culture
Department of
English
Primary Interests: Latin/o American contemporary cultural production (performance, art, video, and literature), feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, visual culture, cultural studies, inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative writing. Selected Publications: "'Accidental Allegories' Meet 'The Performative Documentary': Boystown , Señorita Extraviada , and the Border-Brothel?Maquiladora Paradigm," Signs , Winter 2006, and "Incumbent upon Recombinant Hope: EDT's Strike a Site, Strike a Pose ," The Drama Review (TDR), Vol. 47, No. 2 (T178), Summer 2003 . In addition, her poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies such as The Iowa Review , Mandorla , Chain , Bombay Gin , Seneca Review , Borderlands , Faultline , and This Bridge We Call Home.
Awards: In 2005-2006, Carroll held a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in Latino/a Studies and English at Northwestern University.
amysara@umich.edu


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