Latinx Heritage Month 2024
As we wrap up Latinx Heritage Month, we
- Recognize our Chicanx and Latinx students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community partners.
- Honor the scholarship, creative expression, and collaborations that originate from and engage with Chicanx and Latinx studies.
- Invite all members of our community to learn about this important work by reading these stories, taking classes, attending events, and more.
Meet the scholars
Learn about a few of the things CLA's Latinx students, alumni, and faculty are up to.
Associate Professor Jimmy Patiño (Chicano & Latino studies) seeks to understand how solidarity can be built through differences.
Read "Jimmy Patiño on the Transformative Power of Collective Action"
Music major Emily Fatkhiyev’s week abroad with the Cuban American Youth Orchestra enhanced her understanding and fostered connections that transcend borders.
Read "Bridging Cultures Through Music: One Student's Life-Changing Trip to Cuba"
Paula Cuellar Cuellar (PhD ‘22, history) turned her research on Salvadoran women’s experiences into an award-winning documentary film.
Assistant Professor Maria Nieves Colón (anthropology) talks about the early history of the Caribbean and colonial impacts in the episode "Echoes of Empires" in VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos.
Watch "Echos of Empires" (available online through October 25)
Celebrating the legacy of scholar and activist Jesús Estrada-Pérez, this fund provides fellowships for graduate students whose work engages some aspect of queer Latinx artistic production, cultural studies, social justice issues, and related interdisciplinary theories.
Connecting with community
These Liberal Arts Engagement Hub residencies partner community organizations with CLA scholars.
Latinx art collective Serpentina Arts partnered with CLA departments to spearhead a powerful initiative bringing together eleven Latinx immigrant photographers from Minnesota to share their stories through a unique blend of photography and oral history.
Read "Through the Lens: The Photography Narratives of MN Latinx Immigrants"
This program empowers 20 Latino students from El Colegio High School and the Latinos Unidos program of the White Bear Lake Area School District.
Learn more about the Chicano Latino Studies High School Leadership Program
Hispanic Issues
A refereed scholarly series devoted to the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures—including literary criticism and historiography, Hispanic cultural studies, human rights, Hispanic linguistics, and other areas of inquiry. Each publication stresses collaborative research, drawing on a network of scholars from the United States and abroad.
Learn with us
Did you know that you do not need to be an enrolled student to take our courses? Registration begins on November 12 for students admitted to degree or certificate programs and on December 6 for visiting and non-degree-seeking students.
1000-level
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CHIC 1102: Latinos in the United States: Culture and Citizenship
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CHIC 1102H: Honors: Latinos in the United States: Culture and Citizenship
3000-level
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CHIC 3771: Latino Social Power and Social Movements in the U.S.
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CHIC 3888: Immigration and the U.S. Latina/o Experience: Diaspora, Identity, and Community
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HIST 3446: Chicana and Chicano History II: WWII, El Movimiento, and the New Millennium
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SPAN 3019W: Composition and Communication for Spanish Speakers of the U.S
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SPAN 3104W: Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literatures
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SPAN 3107W: Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Linguistics
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SPAN 3222: Interpreting Modern and Contemporary Latin America
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SPAN 3505: Health and Environmental Humanities through Latin American Literature, Art, and Film
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SPAN 3510: Issues in Hispanic Cultures: (Re)Framing Afro-Latinx
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SPAN 3920: Topics in Spanish-American Literature: 19th-Century Cuban Political Discourse
4000-level
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CHIC 4232: Chicana/o - Latina/o Gender and Sexuality Studies
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POL 4463: The Cuban Revolution Through the Words of Cuban Revolutionaries
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SPAN 4003: Intermediate Spanish for Graduate Student Research
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SPAN 4004: Intermediate Spanish for Graduate Student Research
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SPAN 4022: Alternate Second-Semester Spanish for Graduate Student Research
5000-level
Resources
Department of Chicano & Latino Studies
Grounded in the legacy of the 1960s Chicano civil rights movement, the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies traces the intellectual contributions, cultural shifts, histories and political developments of people of Mexican and Latin American descent living in the United States.
Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies
Founded in the 1960s, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies investigates and teaches the cultures of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. By engaging the expressions of diverse communities, students gain linguistic, cultural, and analytical abilities that prepare them for many careers.
Visit the University's National Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month page for resources and more.
Save the dates
Join us for a discussion of TPT's film Profe and opportunities to support the ethnic studies movement. Assistant Professor Jessica Lopez Lyman (Chicano & Latino studies) advised on the film and it features Ramona Arreguín de Rosales, who helped found the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies.
Please view the film Profe ahead of time.
Thu, Nov 7, 2024
5:30 PM Reception
6:00 PM Discussion
Coffman Union Theater
The State of Iberoamerican Studies Series and Human Rights Initiative Project Symposium presents Lectures in English & Spanish on Latin American Women.
November 7–9, 2024
Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, 120 Pillsbury Hall
Rosa Alicia Clemente Presents “Can’t Stop Our Blackness: Black Latinx Narratives and Resisting Erasure” for the 2024 Ramona Arreguín de Rosales Lecture.
Tuesday, December 03, 2024
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Northrop, Best Buy Theater
Free event, registration requested
About the Ramona Arreguín de Rosales Lecture Series
This fund was created in honor of Ramona Arreguín de Rosales who helped lead the creation of the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies as a student over 50 years ago. This fund supports an annual lecture by a scholar in the field of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies.
Make a gift to the Romana Arreguín de Rosales Lecture Series
