College of Letters & Science
Every September, students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison kick off Latine Heritage Month with a march up Bascom Hill. The event is a chance for all UW students to celebrate Latine culture, make new connections and greet old friends. For the first time, the march concluded with a mercadito, or small market, that featured crafts, …
On August 31, Marla Ramírez (Assistant Professor of History and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies) appeared on WPR’s “University of the Air” to discuss her research on removals of ethnic Mexicans from the United States between the two World Wars with host Norman Gilliland. Between 1921 and 1944, the U.S. expelled nearly one million people of …
On the August 10th edition of Wisconsin Public Radio’s University of the Air, CLS Director Theresa Delgadillo shared her research on Latinx life in the Midwest with host Emily Auerbach. The conversation ranged from histories of ethnic Mexican women in Milwaukee to the poetry of Oscar Mireles, the fiction of Fred Arroyo, changing gender roles, labor …