Chicano Activism and Immigration
Jimmy Patiño
Monday, 11 Feb 2019 at 7:00 pm – South Ballroom, Memorial Union
Jimmy Patiño, an assistant professor of Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, is the author of Raza SÃ, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego. His work presents the perspectives of working-class Mexican-American and Mexican immigrant communities at the border and how different activist organizations from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s debated the problem of undocumented immigration. A native of Houston, Texas, Patiño recalls a childhood of hearing from his grandparents about growing up during the era of Mexican–American segregation, which in part inspired his work on Chicano activism. He earned his PhD from the University of California, San Diego.Cosponsored By:
- Latino/a Studies Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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