A Shared Community: Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota
with Dionicio Valdes, PhD

History Revealed Series
Thursday, September 8, 2022, 7:00 pm

In partnership with the East Side Freedom Library & Roseville Library

Live presentation on Zoom

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Dr. Valdes will take us on an examination of the birth and 20th century history of the Chicano Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, with particular attention to the role played by the political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s throughout the nation and in the Twin Cities.  He will focus on the creative ongoing tensions between advocates of distinct visions, both within the academic world and within the Twin Cities community, that created the Department and have supported it for more than half a century.

Professor Dionicio Valdes directed the U of M’s Ph.D. program in Chicano/Latino Studies and taught in it for 23 years before moving to Michigan State University.  He has been a very active and respected scholar. His publications include El Pueblo Mexicano en Detroit y Michigan: A Social History(private printing, 1981); Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1917-1970(University of Texas Press, 1991); Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2000); Mexicans in Minnesota (MinnesotaHistorical Society Press, 2006); and Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement Before the UFW: Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, and California (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Making Minnesota: Natives, Settlers, Migrants, and Immigrants
The Ramsey County Historical Society, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library, the Ramsey County Roseville Library and other community organizations, will present a series of programs and events during 2022 that will center on the experiences of indigenous people, African Americans, and immigrants in Ramsey County from the 1800s through the current day. programs which focus on the too often lost, erased, forgotten or misrepresented histories and stories of Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. We expect these presentations to enrich and complicate our understanding of the development of the county and the state that we call home.