Fifth Annual
Mexican American History Workshop

April 28-29, 2006
University of Houston
Department of History

"Comparative Approaches to Chicano/a History"

This year’s Mexican American History Workshop investigates the broad analytical reaches of Chicana/o and Latino/a studies by encouraging scholarship that places the field in a comparative context. We will engage comparisons around race and ethnicity, gender, transnationalism and globalization, borders and borderlands, diasporas, and cultural studies.


Sponsors:

 Tenneco Lecture Series
Humanities Texas
Cullen Professor of History and Business
The Department of History
The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Previous Workshops

Senior Scholar:

David Montejano
        University of California, Berkeley


Schedule:  (Click on paper title to download)
                        *Please Note:  All papers are copywrited and cannot be cited without direct permission of the authors.

Thursday, April 27, 2006

6:30 pm- 8:30 pm    Reception
        Eric's Restaurant, University of Houston, Hilton Hotel

Friday, April 28, 2006

8:00 am – 8:30 am    Breakfast
        Shamrock Room, Hilton Hotel

8:30 am – 9:30 am  Introductory Discussion: The Politics and Practice of Ethnic Studies
        Shamrock Room, Hilton Hotel

        David Montejano

9:30 am – 11:45 am Session 1:  
        Shamrock Room, Hilton Hotel   

          Cary Cordova, University of California, Davis
                  "‘La Raza Unida’: Pan-Latino Art and Culture in 1960s San Francisco"
                    Images for Cordova Essay [Large File - 1.4MB]
Geraldo Cadava, Yale University
        “La Fiesta de los Vaqueros: The Tucson Rodeo and Parade, 1940s-1950s"
         Images for Cadava Essay
          
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm     Lunch
        History Department - 5th Floor, Agnes Arnold Hall

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm    Session 2
        Shamrock Room, Hilton Hotel
Lourdes Alberto, Rice University
    "La Chicana: Consumerism, Print Culture and Representations in Late 20th Century Popular Culture"
Workshop Dinner
7:00 - 10:00pm  Ramos House           


Saturday, April 29, 2006

8:30 am – 9:00 am    Breakfast
        History Department (549 Agnes Arnold Hall)

9:00am – 11:15 am    Session 3:
        History Department (549 Agnes Arnold Hall)
Lilia Fernandez, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
        “Braceros/Braceras of a Different Kind: Mexican and Puerto Rican Labor Migration in Comparative Perspective, 1942-1964"

Stephen Rosales, University of California, Irvine
        “Soldados Razos:  Chicano Politics, Identity, and Masculinity in the U.S. Military, 1940-1975.”
       
11:15 am – 12:30 pm    Concluding Session/ Lunch
        History Department (549 Agnes Arnold Hall)