Creating Community Archives in the Digital Era: Chicanx Oral History Projects in the Making Online
Join the California History Section for a live Webinar on "Creating Community Archives in the Digital Era" on Thursday, September 19th at 4PM!
Dr. Lorena V. Márquez will discuss her upcoming book: In their Voices: Chicana/o Movement Elders’ Reflections on the Civil Rights Era, where she highlights race and language trauma, identity formation, and resilience as a testament to forms of resistance during this time period. She will also discuss the importance of creating community archives in the digital era, focusing on the "Sacramento Movimiento Chicano and Mexican American Education Oral History Project" housed at Sacramento State University Library and "Veteranos: Sacramento's Mexican American Servicemen" housed at the Center for Sacramento History.
Dr. Lorena V. Márquez is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicana/o/x Studies at University of California, Davis. She is currently the Director of the Sacramento Movimiento Chicano and Mexican American Education Oral History Project, which has documented 125 oral interviews with local area movement activists and Veteranos: Sacramento’s Mexican American Servicemen. Her book, La Gente: Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento (University of Arizona Press, 2020), examines how la gente, or everyday people, grappled with the ideologies, strategies, and political transformations of the Civil Rights era.
- Date:
- Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Event Location:
- Virtual
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Categories:
- Genealogy General Interest History Speaker Series
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