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Students from 18 colleges converged on Harvard this weekend to participate in the East Coast Chicano Students Forum (ECCSF) fall conference...
...mythology Department, is not only a distinguished scholar in the field of Chicana writers but is also the head of the Department for Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Hector Calderon, of the University of California at Los Angeles, also an eminent scholar specializing in Chicano narrative, it teaching two courses in the English Department this semester, Juan Flores, an expert in Puerto Rican identity from City University of New York, will be teaching in Romance Languages and Literatures next semester...
From personal experience, and from what I have heard from other students, I believe that visiting Latino faculty are a very important resource in a university with few American Latino professors. As a senior History and Literature concentrator in the midst of writing a thesis about Chicano autobiography, I have found myself waiting outside Professor Calderon's office to seek his advice or to ask where I could find more information about particular aspects of my topic. Although my department has provided me with an extremely knowledgeable tutor who is happy to work with my ideas, he cannot always provide...
...Gonzalo C. Martinez '98, president of Raza-the undergraduate Mexican-American/Chicano student organization-agreed, saying that he believes Harvard is neglecting Chicano studies...
...same time, he added that a "California model" of multicultural studies-which advocates formal centers and departments in fields including Asian-American and Chicano studies-may not be the best option for the University...