Posts Tagged ‘chicano’
Expanding Degree Options In Native & Chicano/Chicana Studies At UNM
May 4, 2018- Academics at the University of New Mexico see much interest and value in offering degree programs in Native American, and Chicana and Chicano studies at the higher learning institution, especially in the Southwest where there are a number of tribes and a high Hispanic population. Educators say recognizing the populations at UNM…
Read MoreJimmy Santiago Baca: Words Have the Power to Change the World
April 27, 2018 – Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in New Mexico of Apache and Chicano descent in 1952. Abandoned as child, he was in an orphanage and was in and out of trouble as a teenager before eventually being incarcerated in the brutal and violent Arizona State Prison for five years. That was where…
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