Latinx Oral History Lab Speaker Series: Book talk featuring "Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education"

Event description

Academic events
Free
Inclusion

ASU's Latinx Oral History Lab presents Jennifer R. Nájera, professor of ethnic studies at University of California Riverside. "Learning to Lead," tells the stories of undocumented young people who become community advocates and activists during college. Taking an expansive view of education, Nájera shows how students’ experiences in college — in and out of the classroom — can affect their activism and advocacy work. Nájera's research interests lie at the intersections of race, immigration and education.

This event is co-sponsored by ASU's Community Driven Archives Initiative (CDA), Committee for Strategic Charter Initiatives (CSCI) in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC), Public History Program in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at ASU, Multicultural Communities of Excellence, the ASU CAMP Scholars Project, and Chandler Museum.

More about Nájera:

She is the author of The Borderlands of Race: Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town.
She is a co-PI on the Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Organizing in the Borderlands digital oral history project.
Her research has been published in Chicana/Latina Studies, The Oral History Review, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly.
She has also written OpEds about immigration for The LA Times.

Meet and Greet with Jennifer R. Nájera

Join us and our guest after the talk to enjoy some refreshments and connect. The lunch will be held in the Multicultural Communities of Excellence (MCOE) space at the ASU Polytechnic campus from 1:30-2:30 p.m.