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SUMMARY:TEACHER WORKSHOP - Alonso S. Perales: Civil Rights Trailblazer
DESCRIPTION:About the event\n\n\nJoin us for a free workshop designed for K-12 social studies teachers. You will be provided with TEKS-aligned lesson exemplars for elementary\, middle school\, and high school grades\, each focusing on different aspects of Perales’s legacy. This workshop will equip you with the tools and knowledge to effectively teach about his significant contributions to civil rights and social justice. \nThe workshop is designed and presented by Dr. Elizabeth Rivas\, curriculum specialist. \n🗓️ Saturday\, October 5\, 2024  |  10:00 am – 1:30 pm\n📍UTSA Downtown\, Durango Building 3.202\n📍501 W. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd.\, San Antonio\, TX 78207 \nRefreshments and a light lunch will be provided. \n3 CPE hours for qualified teachers \n\n🛑 KNOW BEFORE YOU GO\nPlease bring an electronic device (laptop\, tablet\, or smartphone) to participate in interactive activities. \nRegistration is required.\nParking details will be sent to registered participants closer to the workshop date. \nThis program is presented in partnership with the UTSA Department of Race\, Ethnicity\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, the Mexican American Studies Teachers Academy\, and the UTSA Mexican American Studies Program. This event is part of the City of San Antonio’s 2024 Fiestas Patrias commemoration. \nMACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Wells Fargo\, and individual donors like you! Gracias!🫶🏽
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/teacher-workshop-alonso-s-perales-civil-rights-trailblazer/
LOCATION:UTSA Downtown\, 501 W César E Chávez Blvd\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:FILM - No Más Bebés Screening | Documentary about Madrigal v. Quilligan
DESCRIPTION:About the event\n\n\nImagine you go to a hospital to give birth. Your doctors don’t speak your language\, and you are pressured to consent to medical procedures in a language you do not understand. \nNO MÁS BEBÉS is an Emmy Nominated documentary that tells the story of Mexican immigrant mothers in Los Angeles who were sterilized in the 1960s and 1970s and Antonia Hernandez\, the young Chicana lawyer behind the landmark civil rights case Madrigal v. Quilligan. NO MÁS BEBÉS premiered in 2016 on PBS’s Emmy Award-winning series\, “Independent Lens.” \nMACRI and UTSA’s Democratizing Racial Justice (DRJ)\, with support from GoodDocs\, present a screening of NO MÁS BEBÉS followed by a Q&A with the film’s producer\, Virginia Espino. \nVirginia Espino is an oral and public historian and leader for Latina and Latino History at UCLA’s Center for Oral History Research. She developed oral history projects around Latinx civil rights struggles in California\, and her investigation of the history of coercive sterilization at the Los Angeles-USC Medical Center provided the basis for NO MÁS BEBÉS. \n📍This FREE event will be held on Thursday\, October 3\, 2024\, at 6 PM in the Aula Canaria Auditorium in the Buena Vista Building (Room 1.328) at the UTSA Downtown Campus\, located at 801 W. Cesar Chavez Blvd. \n🚘 Free parking will be available in Cattleman’s Square Lot on Buena Vista Street (next to Pico de Gallo and across the street from Aula Canaria). \n⚠️ PLEASE NOTE: This film deals with a difficult subject matter and may not be suitable for all audiences \nMACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Wells Fargo\, and individual donors like you! Gracias! \nViews and ideas shared by presenters do not necessarily reflect those of MACRI\, its staff\, or funders.
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/film-no-mas-bebes-screening-documentary-about-madrigal-v-quilligan/
LOCATION:UTSA Downtown\, 501 W César E Chávez Blvd\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:MACRI Talk: Remembering Conquest - How Memories of the US-Mexico War Shaped Civil Rights Struggles
DESCRIPTION:As we get ready for Fiestas Patrias\, join us for a conversation on how memories of the US-Mexico War shaped Mexican Americans’ civil rights struggles since 1848. Historian Omar Valerio Jiménez will discuss his new book\, Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans\, Memory\, and Citizenship. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Light refreshments will be served. \nFriday\, September 13\, 2024\n6 PM\nGuadalupe Latino Bookstore\n1300 Guadalupe Street\, San Antonio\, TX 78207 \nThis program is presented by MACRI and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and is part of the City of San Antonio’s 2024 Fiestas Patrias commemoration. \n🫶🏽 MACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Wells Fargo\, and individual donors like you! Gracias! \nViews and ideas shared by presenters do not necessarily reflect those of MACRI\, its staff\, or funders.
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/macri-talk-remembering-conquest-how-memories-of-the-us-mexico-war-shaped-civil-rights-struggles/
LOCATION:The Guadalupe Latino Bookstore\, 1300 Guadalupe St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78207\, United States
CATEGORIES:MACRI Talks
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SUMMARY:A Day Without A Mexican | 20th Anniversary Screening
DESCRIPTION:California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. As the day progresses\, it becomes apparent that the sole characteristic linking the missing 14 million is their Hispanic heritage. MACRI and MonteVideo present a 20th Anniversary Screening of director Sergio Arau’s breakthrough film! \n📍This FREE event is at the Slab Cinema Arthouse at Blue Star\, located at 134 Blue Star in the Blue Star Arts Complex.\n🪑Seating is first come\, first served.\n🥤Refreshments will be available for purchase from Slab Cinema’s Arthouse at Blue Star. \n⛔ PLEASE NOTE: This film is Rated R for language and brief sexuality and may not be suitable for all audiences. \nMACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Wells Fargo\, and individual donors like you! Gracias!
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/a-day-without-a-mexican-20th-anniversary-screening/
LOCATION:Slab Cinema Arthouse at Blue Star\, 134 Blue Star\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78204\, United States
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SUMMARY:MACRI Talk: Summer Road Trip - A Trip in Time to Los Angeles’ Nayarit Restaurant
DESCRIPTION:Join the last stop in our virtual summer road trip to learn about Mexican American history around the country! 🚗 \nThe MACRI Summer Road Trip concludes in Los Angeles’s Nayarit restaurant with a VIRTUAL MACRI Talk featuring Dr. Natalia Molina. Learn about how the Nayarit fostered community and a sense of belonging for its diverse and largely immigrant clientele and workers. \nOur FREE virtual event will stream live on Facebook at https://bit.ly/FB-MACRI & YouTube at https://bit.ly/YT-MACRI on Tuesday\, August 13\, 2024\, at 6 PM Central Time. Just click on your preferred site to join the presentation at 6 PM CT! \nMACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Wells Fargo\, and individual donors like you! To learn more about future MACRI events and how to make a donation\, please visit www.somosMACRI.org. Gracias! \n  \n🌟 ABOUT OUR GUEST \nNatalia Molina researches and writes about the interconnected histories of race\, place\, gender\, culture\, and citizenship. She is the author of three award-winning books: How Race Is Made in America: Immigration\, Citizenship\, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts; Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles\, 1879-1940; and\, most recently\, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community\, which the Los Angeles Times includes on its “Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf.” A Place at the Nayarit chronicles the lives of immigrant restaurant workers\, including Molina’s grandmother\, who became placemakers\, nurturing and feeding their communities. She is at work on a new book\, The Silent Hands that Shaped the Huntington: A History of Its Mexican Workers\, and has enjoyed writing for the LA Times\, Washington Post\, San Diego Union-Tribune\, and elsewhere. Molina is a Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Dean’s Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California\, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. \n  \n🌟 ABOUT THE TALK \nIn her recent book\, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community\, historian Natalia Molina traces the life’s work of her grandmother\, remembered by all who knew her as Doña Natalia––a generous\, reserved\, and capable woman. Doña Natalia immigrated alone from Mexico to L.A.\, adopted two children\, and ran a successful business. She also sponsored\, housed\, and employed dozens of other immigrants\, encouraging them to lay claim to a city long characterized by anti-Latino racism. Together\, the employees and customers of the Nayarit maintained ties to their old homes while providing one another safety and support. \nThe Nayarit was more than a popular eating spot: it was an urban anchor for a robust community. In this gathering space\, ethnic Mexican workers and customers connected with their patria chica (their “small country”). That meant connecting with distinctive tastes\, one another\, and the city they now called home. Through deep research and vivid storytelling\, Molina follows restaurant workers from the kitchen and the front of the house across borders and through the decades. These people’s stories illuminate the many facets of the immigrant experience: immigrants’ complex networks of family and community and the small but essential pleasures of daily life\, as well as cross-currents of gender and sexuality and pressures of racism and segregation. The Nayarit was a local landmark\, popular with both Hollywood stars and restaurant workers from across the city and beloved for its fresh\, traditionally prepared Mexican food. But as Molina argues\, it was also\, and most importantly\, a place where ethnic Mexicans and other Latinx L.A. residents could step into the fullness of their lives\, nourishing themselves and one another. A Place at the Nayarit is a stirring exploration of how racialized minorities create a sense of belonging. \nViews and ideas shared by presenters do not necessarily reflect those of the MACRI\, its staff\, or funders.
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/macri-talk-summer-road-trip-a-trip-in-time-to-los-angeles-nayarit-restaurant/
LOCATION:Livestream
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SUMMARY:Alonso S. Perales: Civil Rights Trailblazer Traveling Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:A traveling exhibit on the life and legacy of Alonso S. Perales (1898-1960)\, civil rights activist\, public intellectual\, and US diplomat. Drawing from Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco’s recently published biography of Perales\, his first comprehensive biography\, this exhibit will introduce Perales to a new generation. \nThe exhibit will be on display from Saturday\, June 29\, 2024 to Saturday\, October 19\, 2024. \nThe exhibit gallery will be open Monday through Friday\, 10 AM—NOON and 1 – 4 PM\, or by appointment. \nThis program is made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nMACRI’s programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture\, Bexar County\, the Mellon Foundation\, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation\, Wells Fargo\, and individual donors like you! Gracias! \nAbout Dr. Orozco’s book: \nPioneer of Mexican American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales  \nIn this wide-ranging biography\, historian Cynthia Orozco examines the life and work of one of the most influential Mexican Americans of the twentieth century. Alonso S. Perales was born in Alice\, Texas\, in 1898; he became an attorney\, leading civil rights activist\, author\, and US diplomat. \nPerales was active in promoting and seeking equality for “La Raza” in numerous arenas. In 1929\, he founded the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)\, the most important Latino civil rights organization in the United States. He encouraged the empowerment of Latinos at the voting box and sought to pass state and federal legislation banning racial discrimination. He fought for school desegregation in Texas and initiated a movement for more and better public schools for Mexican-descent people in San Antonio. \nA complex and controversial figure\, Alonso S. Perales is now largely forgotten\, and this first-ever comprehensive biography reveals his work and accomplishments to a new generation of scholars of Mexican-American history and Hispanic civil rights. This volume is divided into four parts: the first is organized chronologically and examines his childhood to his role in World War I\, the beginnings of his activism in the 1920s\, and the founding of LULAC. The second section explores his impact as an attorney\, politico\, public intellectual\, Pan-American ideologue\, and US diplomat. Perales’ private life is examined in the third part and scholars’ interpretations of his legacy in the fourth. \nAbout Dr. Orozco: \nDr. Cynthia E. Orozco is an award-winning best-selling author\, public historian\, and educator. Teaching first at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque she joined Eastern New Mexico University in Ruidoso where she recently received the ENMU-Ruidoso President’s Award for Teaching and Service. She is the co-editor of Mexican Americans in Texas History\, an associate editor of Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia\, and served as Research Associate at the Texas State Historical Association where she wrote 80 articles on Texas history for the New Handbook of Texas. \nA two-time Ford Foundation recipient\, Governor Bill Richardson appointed her to the New Mexico Humanities Council. The Texas State Historical Association named Orozco a fellow in 2012 and New Mexico LULAC named her Educator of the Year in 2012. She served as campaign manager for Leo Martinez for Congress in the early 2000s.
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/alonso-s-perales-civil-rights-trailblazer-traveling-exhibit/
LOCATION:MACRI Visitor Center\, 2123 Buena Vista St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78207\, United States
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SUMMARY:MACRI Symposium 2024
DESCRIPTION:MACRI’s 2024 Symposium: Shining a Light on Mexican American Civil Rights \nJoin us for two days of learning about Mexican American civil rights past\, present\, & future. Featuring over two dozen speakers from across the country\, this Symposium will leave you inspired & ready to learn even more about civil rights history & take action in our nation’s ongoing work to advance democracy. \nLivestreaming & in-person at the Central Library in San Antonio\, Texas! \nWe will focus on the past\, present\, and future of three key issues: voting rights\, education\, and representation. \nPanels Include: \n\nState of Mexican American Civil Rights in 2024\nMexican American Military Service: Opportunities and Challenges\nVoting Rights in the 2024 Presidential Election Year\nState of Latino Representation in News Media\nThe Arts and Civil Rights\nWillie Velasquez Leadership Roundtable\n\nSpeakers include: \nJulian Castro • David Montejano • Bianca Rosales • Claudia E. Zapata • Charles Kamasaki • Claudia Zapata • Silvia Foster Frau • Mia Lopez • David Vela • Maj. Gen. Juan Ayala y más! \nJoining us in person? Please reserve your in-person ticket to attend the Symposium at the Central Library\, including lunch! Seating is limited\, so don’t forget to reserve your seat! \nJoining us online? Please register for Virtual attendance so we can send you the live stream link in advance. \nThank you to our event sponsors! \nMethodist Healthcare Ministries \nPalo Alto College | Alamo Colleges \nBexar County Commissioner Justin Rodriguez \nAARP Texas \nFrost Bank \nOCI Group \nTrinity University \nDr. Juan Andrade \nDr. Manuel and Maria Antonietta Berriozabal \nOur Lady of the Lake University \nBexar County \nThe City of San Antonio \nThe City of San Antonio Department of Arts and Culture \nMellon Foundation \nThe San Antonio Area Foundation John L. Santikos Fund \nExtra special thanks to our event partners! \nSan Antonio Public Library | Latino Collection & Resource Center \nSponsorship packages are available! Email info@somosmacri.org for more information.
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/macri-symposium-2024/
LOCATION:Central Library\, 600 Soledad Street\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Symposia
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SUMMARY:MACRI 5th Anniversary Celebration Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration Luncheon will be held on Wednesday\, May 15\, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Westin San Antonio North. Launched in 2019\, the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI) is the only national history initiative dedicated to preserving and disseminating Mexican American civil rights history. Based in San Antonio\, Texas\, the cradle of Mexican American civil rights. Highlights of our fifth-anniversary luncheon will include special guests\, and announcements about our ambitious plan to shine a spotlight on San Antonio as a national destination to learn about Mexican American civil rights history\, including our rich local history as the birthplace of many significant Mexican American civil rights organizations and leaders\, as well as the larger national story of Mexican American civil rights endeavors across the Southwest\, the Pacific Northwest\, the Midwest\, the New South\, and beyond. Learn about how we plan to grow MACRI into a national center housing significant historical archives and collections\, preserving the legacy of Mexican American civil rights endeavors for generations to come\, and offering an unparalleled opportunity for the public to learn about this vital history. \nIf you need an invoice or have any questions\, please contact info@somosmacri.org.
URL:https://somosmacri.org/event/macri-5th-anniversary-celebration-luncheon/
LOCATION:Westin San Antonio North\, 9821 Colonnade Blvd.\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78230\, United States
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