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BORDERLANDS SPEAKER SERIES:

Migration, Ethnic Identity, and the Changing Face of Community

Sponsored by the College of Letters and Science, and the Departments of Modern Languages, Agricultural Economics & Economics, Sociology & Anthropology, English, and History and Philosophy, this speaker series is designed to facilitate discussion about the growing issue of Mexican and Latino migration to Montana. The College recently added a multi-disciplinary minor in Latino Studies to its academic programs for undergraduate students. For more information, email alexander@montana.edu.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th 7 p.m., Bozeman Public Library

"Borders and Crossroads on the Streets of East L.A."

Helena Maria Viramontes,

Author and Professor of Creative Writing,

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Helena Maria Viramontes, a well-known writer and activist, has written extensively on the experiences of Chicano and Chicana farm workers in the U.S. She grew up in East Los Angeles, one of eleven children born to parents who met when they were working as farm laborers, and spent many childhood summers picking fruit in northern California. A professor of English at Cornell University, she has published two novels—Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) and Their Dogs Came With Them (2007)—as well as several collections of short stories. She won the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 1995.