The Five College Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Council cordially

invite the Five College community to the following special lecture:

Frances Aparicio
Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
University of Illinois, Chicago

MexiRicans and Other Intralatino/a

Subjects in Chicago

Thursday Frances R. Aparicio is Professor in the Latin

American and Latino Studies Program at the
February 4, 2010 University of Illinois at Chicago, where she
is also University Scholar. She is author of
7:00 PM Listening to Salsa (1998) and co-editor of
Tropicalizations (1997), Musical Migrations
(2003) and Hibridismos culturales (2006).
Neilson Library She has published extensively on Latino
Studies as a field, on the politics of language
Reading Room among US Latino/as, on popular music and
Smith College gender, on Latino/a literature and on teaching
Spanish to heritage language learners. She
Reception to Follow is currently interviewing Latino/as in Chicago
Directions and Parking: who are of mixed Latin American national
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/directions/ identities, such as the MexiRican.

The invited lecture is part of a faculty retreat initiative of the Five College Latin American, Caribbean
and Latino Studies Councilon: Friday Jan. 5, 2010 from 9 AM - 4 PM at the Amherst College Keefe
Center. For more information about the faculty retreat, please contact FCLACLS Council Chair, Mari
Castañeda: mari@comm.umass.edu
The lecture and faculty retreat are supported by the UMass Amherst Office of Faculty Development’s
Mutual, Mentoring Initiative, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Five Colleges Inc.;
Smith College; Department of Communication, UMass Amherst; Mount Holyoke College; Center for
Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies.