Beyond the Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino/Latina America
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday March 30th and Saturday March 31, 2007

Sponsored by the Department of History, the Latina/Latino Studies Program, and the College of Arts and Sciences.

All Events are located:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room 223 Gregory Hall, 810 South Wright, unless otherwise indicated.

Friday March 30th

3 pm Welcome

3:15 pm Lilia Fernandez
Ohio State University
Department of History

“(Un)Making the Barrio in Postwar Chicago: Race, Housing Policy, and Urban Renewal”

4:30 pm
Reception
Latina/Latino
Studies Program
510 East Chalmers
Urbana, Illinois

Saturday March 31st

9 am Continental Breakfast

9:30 am René Francisco Poitevin
New York University
Gallatin School

“From Racial Formation to Plano Racial: Latinos and the Black/White Racial Paradigm”

10:30 am Julie Dowling
University of Illinois
Latina/Latino Studies Program

“So Far From Miami: Afro-Cuban Encounters with Mexicans in the Southwest”

11:30 pm Lunch
The Bread Company
706 South Goodwin
Urbana, Illinois
Please join us for lunch with our invited presenters and special guests.

1:30 pm John McKiernan González
University of Texas-Austin
Department of History

“Racial Schooling? Youth, Public History, and Cultural Citizenship in Cuentos de mi Familia”

2:30 pm Wilson Valentín-Escobar
Hampshire College
Social Sciences Division

“Freedomland at the New Rican Village: Latin Jazz, Bodega Surrealists, and the Making of a Latin@ Avant-Garde”

3:30 pm Closing Words
Adrian Burgos
University of Illinois
Department of History