Anthropology

Gloria Holguín Cuádraz

Associate Professor, Arizona State University 

Mexican Americans and the Making of Community in Litchfield Park, 1916-1986: Oral Histories from the Goodyear Farms Camps 

206 Ingraham Hall –

UW-Madison campus

Friday, October 17

4-5:30 pm

Dr. Cuádraz’s talk is based on oral histories of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants that worked for Goodyear Farms and lived in “los campos” of Litchfield Park, Arizona (1916-1986). This project documents the history of Mexican American agricultural workers and their families, chronicling the development of the camp communities, while capturing the memories and places special to the former residents of the Goodyear Farms camps. Based on more than more than 45 oral histories and hours of video documentation, this lecture will provide both substantive information about the lives of Mexican Americans as well as several methodological practices.  Its interdisciplinary approach will be of interest to scholars of culture, history, and Mexican American lives. It will also appeal to community based researchers who are interested in establishing university-community projects and the different types of projects that can be produced from these collaborations. It will provide a comparative look at Mexican Americans in another part of the United States. As the Latino population grows in Wisconsin, this will serve to provide an understanding of the historical incorporation of Mexican Americans in U.S. history.  

Career Services is serving as a host site for an upcoming virtual seminar – A Call to Serve:  2009 Nonprofit Career Paths.  This seminar is open to the entire campus community – faculty, staff and students. The seminar will be held on Thursday, November 6 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in MAC 137.  Feel free to bring your lunch with soda, water and cookies provided.

The seminar will feature Shelly Cryer, author of The Nonprofit Career Guide: How to Land a Job That Makes a Difference.  Shelly will offer a birds-eye view of jobs in the nonprofit sector in 2009 and the career paths within it. Cryer will focus on opportunities and obstacles to helping interested students land meaningful nonprofit sector jobs and will provide concrete strategies for successful nonprofit sector career counseling and advice on the best resources.

During this seminar, participants will discover and explore:

• the size and scope of the nonprofit sector, the key subsectors within it, and range of job functions,
• key barriers to landing a nonprofit job, and strategies for overcoming those barriers,
• job search strategies specific to the nonprofit sector,
• the best resources for nonprofit sector job preparation and job hunting, and
• tips for building connections to a campus’ local nonprofits, as well as national nonprofits.

If you are interested in attending please RSVP to Linda Peacock-Landrum in Career Services by email to peacockl@uwgb.edu or calling Career Services at 465-2163.

Welcome back, all culture vultures!  The editors apologize for being so far behind the times, and vow to do better from now on! 

There are a lot of wonderful things happening this semester, on campus and in the community, for everyone interested in culture and anthropology.  One of the most exciting new developments is a new student organization – The Cultural Lens – which is open to everyone who really cares about culture.  We will profile it very soon and provide a way for you to sign up.

Stay tuned, too, for news about many of the field trips and campus activities The Cultural Lens will be sponsoring.  There are many other happenings you might want to check out, offered through the Human Mosaic, the Cofrin Friends of the Library, the Common Theme (Waging War, Waging Peace), and many others.  We will remind you about them and let you know when and where they are (and try to be timely about it!) as they happen.

Let us also take this moment to give three huge cheers to WELCOME BACK Dr. Lynn Walter, who was away on what we hope was a very refreshing and yet productive sabbatical last year.  Dr. Walter is back in her position as Chair of Anthropology, and as such is the person you should go to with your advising questions.  We are all very happy to have you back, Lynn!

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