You are invited to a performance by Zarco Guerrero! The zany cast of mask characters from "Face to Face in a Frenzy" will come together again to share the fascinating stories of the Gila and Salt Rivers. From its ancient past to modern times, its flora and fauna to its advanced native civilization the Hohogam. […]
The great West that George Bird Grinnell first encountered in 1870 as a 21-year old man was shortly to disappear before his eyes. Nobody was quicker to sense the desecration or was more eloquent in crusading against the poachers, the hidehunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.” […]
Screening and Discussion of Oral Histories and Documentary Film Called the “Mother Road” by author John Steinbeck, U.S. Route 66 stretches some 2,400 miles from Los Angeles to Chicago, symbolic of the mobility available to Americans, and an iconic highway for many travelers. Yet much of the historical perspective of the highway that passes through […]
Screening and Discussion of Oral Histories and Documentary Film Called the “Mother Road” by author John Steinbeck, U.S. Route 66 stretches some 2,400 miles from Los Angeles to Chicago, symbolic of the mobility available to Americans, and an iconic highway for many travelers. Yet much of the historical perspective of the highway that passes through […]
In many Southwestern matrifocal cultures, Indigenous women’s lives are modeled after female heroes and sacred women who exemplify and express courage and kinship values. Among some tribal cultures, rites of passage celebrate female creativity and the transformative nature of women, hence there was not a need for the concept of feminism. Nevertheless, Indigenous women’s lives […]
Part of ASU Ethnic Studies Week, supported by Arizona Humanities Dr. Ieasha Jackson from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will discuss Culturally Relevant Caring: Beyond Relationships & “Good Teaching.” Space is limited; please register at: https://ethnicstudies_workshop.eventbrite.com
Mike Burns lived a long life in two worlds. Born in about 1862 into the Kwevkepaya (Yavapai) people, he was taken prisoner by U.S. soldiers after his family was massacred at a place called Skeleton Cave. He lived for years as something between a captive and a servant until joining the Indian Scouts, riding against […]
Educational equity in Arizona: A radical idea, or a necessary goal? Dr. Angelina Castagno, Northern Arizona University, Educational Foundations Education is a hot topic in Arizona. Legislators, educators and citizens cannot agree on funding, curricula, or testing, to name a few, or on why Arizona consistently ranks at the bottom nationally when it comes to education. […]
Part of ASU Ethnic Studies Week, supported by Arizona Humanities Are We Ready for “School” Abolition?: Thoughts and Practices of a Radical Imaginary in Education with Dr. David Stovall from the University of Illinois at Chicago This brown bag discussion will engage a set of questions traditionally associated with the organized, grassroots activist and scholarly […]
ASU Ethnic Studies Week, supported by Arizona Humanities KEYNOTE LECTURE Are We Ready for “School” Abolition?: Thoughts & Practices of a Radical Imaginary in Education with Dr. David Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. David Stovall is a professor of Educational Policy Studies and African-American Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests […]
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