During the Spring quarter of 2020, I taught a special topics course for UCSD Latin American Studies about the 50th anniversary of San Diego’s Chicano Park. The class was going to be convened in the Park, at the base of the new mural dedicated to the memory of Anastasio Hernández Rojas. Our class meetings would …
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Ya se siente la bonita primavera en San Diego. /// Feels like springtime in San Diego.
On October 24 I took my LATI 10 students on a trip to visit Chicano Park. After a brief historical summary and mural tour, we took a walk down Logan Ave for some limonada and a few tacos al pastor. There was a consensus among my students that they had a great time. For most …
I am co-designing and teaching a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) course, LATI 10 – Reading North by South: Latin American Studies and the US Liberation Movements at UCSD for the 2019-2020 academic year! “The purpose of this class is to study the multilayered relations between Latin American Studies and U.S. Liberation movements, particularly Third …
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