[Coehd] Public lecture by Dr. Roberto "Cintli" Rodriguez

The Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department invites you to a public to a talk by Dr. Roberto "Cintli" Rodriguez from the University of Arizona. UTSA Downtown Campus Thursday, February 27, 2020 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Durango Building, 3.216 Dr. Rodriguez will be speaking about his body of scholarship, including his new book "Yolqui: A Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World." His talk will actually include his two other books: Our Sacred Maiz is our Mother (UA Press 2014) and Smiling Brown: Gente de Bronce; People the color of the Earth (UA Press, forthcoming). This trilogy of books are all related; his Sacred Maiz book speaks to the 7,000-year history of maiz and also speaks to the unity of this continent, based on this ancient sacred sustenance, birthed from a germinational seed in Southern/Mexico/Central America. Yolqui is both a memoir, but also a book of testimonios that examines violence against the red-black-brown peoples of this country/continent, tracking it to 1492, but also, emphasizing the past 5 years, since the killing of Michael Brown in 2014 (In 1986, he was recognized as the jourmalist of the year by the California Chicano News Media Association, for his defense of the 1st Amendment, after nearly being killed for his coverage of police brutality). Smiling Brown is a book on the topic of color and color consciousness and its relationship to Indigeneity and Indigenous consciousness. These topics address the issues of the day, including the importance of continued human rights struggles, issues of Indigeneity and belonging and their importance to the 2020 Census. Please invite your students attend. Hope to see you! Lilliana Lilliana Patricia Saldaña, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Program Director Mexican American Studies Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department University of Texas at San Antonio 501 W. César Chavez Boulevard San Antonio, Texas 78207 MAS Teachers' Academy <http://education.utsa.edu/mas/social_studies_teachers_academy/> , Co-Director Dreamers Resource Center <https://www.utsa.edu/dreamers/> , Faculty Ally Esperanza Peace and Justice Center <http://esperanzacenter.org> , Board of Directors