7pm Friday October 26, 2012
Red Salmon Arts
presents
a plática with David Montejano
(Professor at the University of California at Berkeley)
on
his new books:
Quixote's Soldiers:
A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981
A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981
and
Sancho's Journal:
Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets
Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets
In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transformed the barrios and ultimately brought down the old Anglo oligarchy. InQuixote's Soldiers, David Montejano uses a wealth of previously untapped sources, including the congressional papers of Henry B. Gonzalez, to present an intriguing and highly readable account of this turbulent period.
Montejano divides the narrative into three parts. In the first part, he recounts how college student activists and politicized social workers mobilized barrio youth and mounted an aggressive challenge to both Anglo and Mexican American political elites. In the second part, Montejano looks at the dynamic evolution of the Chicano movement and the emergence of clear gender and class distinctions as women and ex-gang youth struggled to gain recognition as serious political actors. In the final part, Montejano analyzes the failures and successes of movement politics.
Sancho’s Journal presents a rich ethnography of daily life among the “batos locos” (crazy guys) as they joined the Brown Berets and became associated with the greater Chicano movement. Montejano describes the motivations that brought young men into the group and shows how they learned to link their individual troubles with the larger issues of social inequality and discrimination that the movement sought to redress. He also recounts his own journey as a scholar who came to realize that, before he could tell this street-level story, he had to understand the larger history of Mexican Americans and their struggle for a place in U.S. society. Sancho’s Journal completes that epic story.
The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center and Red Salmon Arts present the 2012 Flor De Nopal Reading and Workshop Series
October 27, 2012 Events
Two Writing Workshops
“Let the Characters Decide: A Strategy for Triggering Action and Raising Stakes in Stories” led by Ramona Reeves, 1pm-3pm
“Writing in la lluvia: Writing like it’s your last day” led by Bárbara Renaud González, 3pm-5pm
Email flordenopal@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
@ MACC, 600 River Street
Free.
Same Day:
Reading featuring Ramona Reeves and Bárbara Renaud González
Hosted by ire’ne lara silva
7pm
@ Resistencia Bookstore, 1801-a South 1st Street
Suggested donation: $5 to benefit Red Salmon Arts
Other events in the series:
November 17th
Workshops and Reading featuring
Celeste Mendoza: “Body Bliss” and
John Fry: “Poetry as Pilgrimage”
Flor De Nopal Literary Festival 2012, December 7, 2012
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“Let the Characters Decide: A Strategy for Triggering Action and Raising Stakes in Stories” led by Ramona Reeves
Sometimes we have great ideas for characters, but it’s not always easy to get them off the couch and moving and acting in ways that raise the ante in a story. This workshop will focus on getting characters to act and make decisions in such a way that each decision is compounded by the ones that came before it. When characters make decisions, a set of events are often triggered, the pace of a story quickens, and the stakes are raised. If we’re successful, this approach will increase the tension in the story you bring to revise and will add more complexity to your characters.
Ramona Reeves has received a writer’s residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and a fellowship from a A Room of Her Own. She has also been a finalist in the Austin Chronicle Short Story contest. She has published essays, poetry, fiction, and interviews. By day, she works as mild-mannered editor in Austin, Texas. By night, she writes and dreams.
“Writing in la lluvia: Writing like it’s your last day” led by Bárbara Renaud González
In this workshop, we will help each other swim in the river of fearlessness. It’s not about prizes or tamale stories (also good, but not what we are gonna do). In this workshop, we will help each other see ourselves a little better so that we find the dream of raining inside us. The best stories come from that rain, and this is why we’re here. And this is the only writing that will set us free.
Bárbara Renaud González is an award-winning writer, journalist, and activist. She is the author of the novel, Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me? and Willie and the Flood/Su Voto es Su Voz, a children’s book on the life of Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project founder Willie Velasquez. Gonzalez’ essays and articles have appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, Ms., The Los Angeles Times and many others. Her commentaries have aired on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” and “Latino USA.”
2nd Annual Beat Poetry and Arts Festival
November 1 - 3, 2012
Austin, TX
SPECIAL OPENING EVENT:
Thursday November 1, 2012
@ Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts: 1801-A South First St.
6pm-7pm: Meet and Greet for BPAF members & friends
7pm: Tribute to raúlrsalinas and Albert Huffstickler
For festival & schedule info go to: www.beatpoetryfest.comor email Christopher Carmona at christophercarmonapoet@gmail.
New & Recent Titles
LATEST FRED HO RELEASES:
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Year of the Tiger by Fred Ho & The Green Monster Big Band {CD/ Big Red Media Inc.}
BIG RED! by Fred Ho & The Afro Asian Music Ensemble {CD/ Big Red Media Inc.}
Un Trip through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursion by raulrsalinas {Arte Publico Press}
Boxing Shadows by W.K. Stratton with Anissa "The Assassin" Zamarron {UT Press}
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander {The New Press}
our name be witness by Marvin K. White {Redbone Press}
Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement by Maylei Blackwell {UT Press}
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson {Univ. of North Carolina Press}
Chulito: A Novel by Charles Rice-Gonzalez {Magnus Books}
In Another Place, Not Here: a novel by Dionne Brand {Grove Press}
Baldwin: Collected Essays by James Baldwin {The Library of America}
Death of a Mexican and Other Poems by Manual Paul Lopez {Bear Star Press}
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill/ conceived by Joseph Beam {Red Bone Press}
The Black Panther Suite: All Power to the People! music-video performance DVD: music & concept by Fred Ho/ Art by Paul Chan {Big Red Media}
Levante/Get Up (CD) by Krudas Cubensi
Altepee (CD) Son Jarocho desde Veracruz, Mexico
Lyrical Lessons (CD) by The Cipher
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (DVD) a film by Anne Lewis & Mimi Pickering
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