Department of Mexican American and Raza Studies
Tue, 10/14/2008 - 2:06pm — memcinto
Name of proposed new unit, OR Title of submission:
Department of Mexican American and Raza Studies
137 Dept of Mexican American Studies and Raza Studies.pdf
Name of contact person for this proposal: Antonio Estrada
Contact person title: Director and Professor, Mexican American Studies & Research Center
Contact Address:
Cesar E. Chavez Bldg., #23
Room 208C
P.O. Box 210023
Tucson, AZ 85721-0023
Contact Phone: 520-621-5121
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The African American
The African American Advisory Council would want to insure that Transformations processes including consolidations and workforce reductions would not erode The University of Arizona's efforts to recruit and retain diverse faculty, students, and staff.
The UA President’s Hispanic
The UA President’s Hispanic Advisory Council (HAC) is pleased to provide its evaluation of this White Paper/Proposal, with the specific goal of relating it to the joint UA/HAC goals concerning diversity and inclusion, recruitment, retention and graduation of Hispanic students and faculty, and on meeting the UA goal of becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution by 2012. Additional criteria used when reviewing this proposal include the following: UA’s land grant institution status and thus its location in the southwest and the changing demographics of this area; innovative program design, including instruction methodologies; and whether the proposal realistically addresses the UA’s business needs. HAC’s mission it to strengthen relationships between the UA and the diverse communities within the State of Arizona by serving as a communications conduit and developing mutually beneficial partnerships.
HAC has reviewed this proposal and rates this as:
An Excellent Model - this proposal could be used as a model for meeting the Hispanic Advisory Council criteria. We recommend that the proposal be moved forward and expanded.
As MASRC affiliated faculty I
As MASRC affiliated faculty I support this proposal to give MASRC department status. I also urge that stronger ties be developed between MARSC and Latin American Studies. A "new pan-American"perspective is emerging in a number of fields which stresses that we cannot use nation states as our only units of analysis but instead, we need to look at hemisphere wide processes. American Studies could be part of this as well as Native American Studies. The University of Oregon at Eugene is implementing the development of such connections.
You see this perspective, for example, in work that stresses the reciprocal if antagonistic construction of Mexican and Anglo-Saxon American nationalism in the 19th and 20th c. Indigenous historians are increasingly redefining "America" to include the Spanish colonial period and use Spanish sources; this cutting edge work is developing new perspectives on indigenous agency and the impact on indigenous people of different forms of colonialism.
Ana Alonso
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