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Article: Is there a future for Chicano/Chicana studies?
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- August 6, 1998
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Mexico City -- A thousand Chicana and Chicano scholars came to this ancient Aztec capital in June, as participants in The National Association of Chicana and Chicago Scholars' (NACCS) annual meeting, to ponder the future of their discipline and to become reacquainted with Mexico.
For Estevan Flores, director of the Latino/a Research and Policy Center at the University of Colorado-Denver, simply having the conference in Mexico was important because many of the students and scholars participating had never been to the country.
"It was great to be meeting in buildings that existed even before there was a United States," says Dr. Julia Curry, a ...