‘I was waiting for someone to interview me’: Preserving Our Communities’ Histories
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. Join Nájera for a discussion on the Mapping Chicana/Mexicana Organizing in the Borderlands digital oral history project, which documents and highlights the contributions of Mexican/Chicana women’s grassroots organizing in South Texas and Southern Arizona. The project centers women’s experiences in mobilizing and sustaining communities from the late 1960s through the 2010s, underscoring their historical role in politics and community building.
She will share insights from this project and engage students in questions and dialogue about how oral histories preserve and amplify community voices.
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 EducationQuarterly.
- She has also written OpEds about immigration for The LA Times.
Date
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Time
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm (MST)
Cost