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Who is Frances R. Aparicio?
Writer of Latinidad/es (Keywords) | Previously taught at U-M | Lives in Chicago | Puerto Rican raised on the islands | Also wrote listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin popular music, and puerto rican cultures (1998)
Who is José Martí?
Cuban poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, and more who is considered a Cuban national hero.
Who was Fulgencio Batista?
Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and as its U.S.-backed military dictator from 1952 to 1959.
Who popularized the term Nuyorican? How did the word change?
It was popularized by Miguel Algarin, who co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. The term was originally a slur for Puerto Ricans in New York. Implying that they weren't Puerto Rican enough because they were "Americanized" or spoke Spanglish
Who is Dolores Huerta?
An American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Established in 1962.
Who is Amin Saleh? (Hint: he works at U-M.)
A Program manager at the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs.
Who is Sheila Contreras?
She is a Mexican-American/Chicana | Associate Professor at MSU | Author of Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature
Who is Ginetta E.B. Candelario?
A professor of sociology and of Latin American and Latine Studies at Smith College in Massachusetts | Received PhD from the City University of New York
Who was Pedro Albizu Campos?
Puerto Rican attorney and politician | Leading figure in the Puerto Rican independence movement | President and spokesperson of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party from 1930 until his death in '65
Who is Gustavo Pérez Firmat?
A Cuban author and scholar
Who is Catherine S. Ramírez?
Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz | Received her PhD in Ethnic Studies with a Designtated Emphasis in Gender and Women's Studies from U-Cal Berkeley | Author of Assimilation: An Alternative History
Who is Sofía Vergara? Where is she from?
A Colombian-American actress, TV producer, comedian, presenter, and model. She's from Barranquilla, Colombia
Who is Mariana Cabrera?
A Guatemalan immigrant who had to flee without her children
Who is Mariana Zamboni?
The daughter of Mariana Cabrera, who was separated from her mother for so long that she didn't recognize her when she had finally got into the US
Who is Anthony P. Mora?
Teaches History at U-M | From New Mexico | Author of Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912
Who is Patrick Mullen-Coyoy?
U-M Grad with a degree in Latine studies, History, and Spanish with Honors | Identifies as a Guatemalan-Irish queer
Who was Augusto César Sandino?
Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the United States occupation of Nicaragua.
Who is Marcello Hernandez?
Cuban-Dominican (C on Mother's side and D on Dad's side) comedian and actor | Has been a cast member of SNL since the 48th season in 2022 | Grew up in Miami | graduated from John Carroll University in 2019
Who was Apolinaria Lorenzana?
An orphan, sent to California from Mexico in 1800 to help Spain's efforts to populate the region.
Who is Daniel Ortega?
Leader of the Sandinistas, who soon became the dictator of Nicaragua
Who is Reinaldo Arenas?
Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as an early sympathizer and later critic of Fidel Castro | Rebel of Cuban government | Openly Homosexual | Died of AIDS (Diagnosed in 1987) on December 7, 1990
Who is Jacobo Árbenz?
Guatemalan military officer who was the second democratically elected president from 1951-1954. He ran policies that were afoul of the United Fruit Company, which caused him to be lobbied by the UFC to be overthrown (they were also concerned of communism) He was ousted in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état by the US Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency
Who is Luciana Chamorro?
A political anthropologist and an assistant professor of anthropology at U-M | Specializes in Central America and writes on revolution and its afterlives, populist politics, authoritarianism, affect, and aesthetics.
Who is William D. Lopez?
Faculty associate in the Latine studies program at U-M | Received his BA in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame, a Master of Public health from the University of texas Health Science Center at Houston, and a PhD from the U-M School of Public Health
Who is Junot Díaz?
Dominican-American writer who moved to New Jersey in 1974 | Creative writing professor at MIT | Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008 with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Who is Juana María Rodríguez?
Cuban American Writer | Teachers at Uni of Cali Berkeley | Author of 3 books
Who is Frederick Luis Aldama
Self-Identifying Latino (Mexican-American, Guatemalan-American, and Irish-American) | Teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. Formerly taught at Ohio State | Has published many books, including Latinx Comic Book Storytelling
Who was Luis Muñoz Marín?
First elected governor of Puerto Rico (1948).
Promoted massive migration to US.
Served for 16 years (1949-1965).
A journalist, politician, and statesman.
Regarded as the "Father of Modern Puerto Rico" and the "Architect of the Commonwealth."
Who was Sam Houston?
An American military general who helped during the Texas Revlution
Who is Maya Chinchilla?
A Guatemalan-American writer knwon for her poem: Central AmericanAmerican
Who was Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal?
A Nicaraguan journalist and publisher who spoke against the Somozas | Was assassinated in 1978 by unknown gunmen who pulled up beside him in a car and opened fire with shotguns
Who was Simón Bolívar?
A Venezuelan revolutionary leader who helped many Latin American countries gain independence from the Spanish Empire
Who is Ilan Stavans?
He is a Mexican Jewish scholar and author who wrote a book called The Hispanic Condition.
Who are some of the main leaders or groups that participated in the Chicano Movimiento?
Dolores Huerta | Cesar Chavez | Jose Angel Gutierrez | Raza Unida Party | Willie Velaquez | UFW | MAYO
Who is Silvia Pedraza?
A Cuban Professor of American Culture, Latina/o Studies, and Sociology at U-M.
Received her BA and MA in Teaching from U-M and an MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.
Who is Cecilia Menjívar?
A distinguished professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair in the Department of Sociology at UCLA | Salvadoran American
Who is Nicholas De Genova
He was born in Chicago and isn't Latinx | Scholar of migration, borders, race, citizenship, and labor. | Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Comparative Studies at the University of Houston