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Fronterizo and Transborder Existences: Binding Megascripts in a Transnational World
A lecture by
Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Chair, Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Motorola Presidential Professor of Neighborhood Revitalization
Arizona State University
For many in the Southwest North American region, events and history have prevented the development of a single tracked citizenship-based personality development in which our beings are tied only to an American civil life. The acculturation model has been pretty much devastated by the recognition that there are multiple dimensions of cultural personalities that cannot be reduced to simple unilineal identities. We live American civil lives but contextualized within multiple transnational and transborder points of reference. Therefore, culturally we amass and discard layers of cultural skins that simply do not refer to only a simple cultural referent such as citizenship. We live that, but as well we live within and on many bordered aspects of ourselves that are historically penetrating of our very beings of ourselves and beyond the reach of an imposed or acquired citizenship. We gather in the midst of social relations as old as the Romans, worship in religions older, and from told and lived experiences participate and are reminded of our transnational and transborder selves on a daily basis and simultaneously die in American wars. It's been this way since the 19th century. Only there have been huge contradictory megascripts that often led us in different directions and created filters over our minds.
Presented by BorderLore/The Southwest Center & The Center for Latin American Studies
Where & When
Tuesday, March 24
4 PM
University of Arizona
Cesar Chavez Building # 205
Dr. Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez is widely regarded as one of the most important Chicano intellectuals of his generation. Throughout his distinguished career, he has contributed significantly to applied anthropology and particularly, to an understanding of the contemporary lives of Mexican and Mexican-American populations. His research at the UA in the 1980s-90s coined the term "funds of knowledge" which has had long-lasting impact in education and many other fields. In addition to his current positions at ASU, he is also Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at University of California, Riverside.
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