are pleased to offer you an online presentation of

"The Mexican-American Perception and
a look at Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County"

by

Dr. Julia Curry
Mexican American Studies Department
San Jose State University

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October 15th 11am (Pacific time). This online course will have audio and live streaming text available in Spanish and English. We will provide a Chat room for viewers to ask questions of the presenter during the course of the lecture.

Julia Curry Rodriguez received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara (1980), and her M.A. (1985) and Ph.D. (1988) in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Her research focuses on immigrant women and children using qualitative methods. She co-directed a research project on the impact of Proposition 227 in California school districts. For MAS she teaches courses on gender and sexuality, literature, and comparative Latino immigrant cultures. She has been very active in the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, serving as Executive Director, and with Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. Dr. Curry has organized “read-out-loud” efforts at one school in the San Jose School District involving university students and staff for the national Reading Day of the Department of Education. She is organizing the development of a library for the charter school, Academia Calmecac, of MACSA in San Jose.

Email project coordinator Michelle Goldschmid for specific inquiries