Felicidades to the Latina/o Studies Association. This week's first conference was seven years in the making and it comes during a difficult time of unrest in our country. While peaceful protests spread across the country, we were here, in Pasadena, California, coming together. Our Mission:
"The Latina/o Studies Association (LSA) is formed to further the goal and objective of promoting the research and teaching of Latina/o studies, advocating on behalf of Latinas/os, and using its expertise in order to encourage positive policy change related to Latinas/os. We embrace an expansive definition of Latina/o to mean those long-established communities in the U.S. of Latin American origin as well as more recent arrivals. As such, we are also interested in the connections between U.S. Latina/os and transnational and/or diasporic Latin American and Hispanic Caribbean communities."
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| Giving the Presidential Address! |
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| One of the many panels happening over the 3-day conference |
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| The beautiful Pasadena City Hall |
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| ASA Conference Panelists |
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| ASA Conference Panel |
The final event was a concert by the Grammy Award winning group, "Quetzal."
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| Martha Gonzalez, Quetzal singer |
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| Quetzal band and conference participants |
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| A happy group of conference attendees on last night! Orale! |
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