Congratulations!

President Rusty Barceló!

The Board of Regents of
Northern New Mexico College
requests the honor of your presence at the
Inauguration of
Dr. Nancy “Rusty” Barceló
as twentieth President of
Northern New Mexico College

October 28, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.
Nick L Salazar Center for Arts
Española, New Mexico 87532

Reception to follow in the
Joseph Montoya Administration Building Commons

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Announcing Dr. Lorena V. Marquez

Professor Linda Heidenrech of the Women’s Studies Department at Washington State University, is proud to announce that “Lorena V. Marquez successfully defended her dissertation at UC San Diego.  Her work focuses on Chicana/o histories in Sacramento, CA.  She is now … Read More

Teatro Chicana Honored with PopCulture prize

Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
Edited by Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nuñezteatrochicana

This collection has been awarded the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies in Popular and American Culture in 2008. This award is given by the Popular Culture/American Culture Association. The first print run paperback  of “Teatro Chicana” has sold out. University of Texas Press is reprinting.

As reviewed by Monica Teresa Ortiz at Feminist Review:
(also see this review at La Bloga)

Co-Editor Sandra M. Gutiérrez writes in her entry: “As far as the Teatro de las Chicanas was concerned, what we lacked in theatrical training and sophistication, we more than made up for with ganas and deter-mination.”  There is no better way to summarize this book than that. The editors put together a wide range of memoirs from Xicanas in the first part of the book and then have actos in the second half. Although Teatro Chicana covers an important and sometimes ignored aspect of the growing Chicano literary field, the strength of the book is in the memoirs – a gutsy group of recollections about the influence of theater on various contributing Xicana writers.

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CA Congresswoman Hilda Solis named Obama's Secretary of Labor

When Barack Obama set out to choose his secretary of Labor, his top priority was probably not recruiting an emblematic Angeleno. But in tapping Hilda L. Solis, a Democrat who represents a portion of the San Gabriel Valley in Congress, that’s just what he’s done.

The Latina daughter of immigrants, a product and champion of the labor movement, a staunch environmentalist, an ardent feminist and one of the gutsiest elected officials in American politics, Solis personifies the best of the new Los Angeles.

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CA Congresswoman Hilda Solis named Obama’s Secretary of Labor

When Barack Obama set out to choose his secretary of Labor, his top priority was probably not recruiting an emblematic Angeleno. But in tapping Hilda L. Solis, a Democrat who represents a portion of the San Gabriel Valley in Congress, that’s just what he’s done.

The Latina daughter of immigrants, a product and champion of the labor movement, a staunch environmentalist, an ardent feminist and one of the gutsiest elected officials in American politics, Solis personifies the best of the new Los Angeles.

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