Listening In (Loudly): Latinos, Labor, and Spanish-language Radio

In Honor of Latino Identities Month

Listening In (Loudly): Latinos, Labor, and Spanish-language Radio

A lecture by Dr. Dolores Inés Casillas

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 7:00 p.m., 412 Lee Hall

Dr. Dolores Inés Casillas is Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published articles in American Quarterly, Boom: A Journal of California, and chapters in a number of edited anthologies. Her book, Sounds of Belonging: Public Advocacy on U.S. Spanish-language Radio, 1922-2006, will be published by New York University Press and she is a co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Companion to Latina/o Media Studies.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History and American Studies, Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, the James Farmer Multicultural Center, and the Campus Academic Resources Committee (CARC).

For more information contact Jess Rigelhaupt. 540.654.1480 / jmr [at] umw.edu

A PDF of the flyer for the event is available here: http://cas.umw.edu/historyamericanstudies/files/2013/09/Casillas-Listening-In.pdf

For more information on UMW’s celebration of Latino Identities Month go to http://students.umw.edu/multicultural/programs/latino-identities-month/.