Lecture: Mango Street Revisited—Youth, the Community/Barrio, and Immigration in Mexican Chicago
Date: Tue. April 21, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Program: One Book, One Chicago
About this event:
DePaul University—McGowan South Building
1110 W. Belden Ave., Room 108
For this One Book, One Chicago program, Juan Mora-Torres, Associate Professor in History at DePaul, looks at the spring of 2006, when over a million people marched in Chicago to demand civil rights for the undocumented population. This lecture/presentation revisits key themes in Sandra Cisneros’ novel, The House on Mango Street— the meaning of community, the politics of the youth and issues of immigration in the making of contemporary Mexican Chicago. Sponsored by DePaul University’s Department of English. For more information, go to www.depaul.edu/~oboc or call (773) 325-7485.
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