March 29, 2001

Interpreting Latino History through Urban and Regional Studies:
From Frontier to Suburb
312-996-8700

A Great Cities Institute Lecture:

Interpreting Latino History through Urban and Regional Studies:
From Frontier to Suburb

Presenter: David Badillo
Visiting Human Relations Specialist, UIC Office for Access and Equity

The presentation will re-examine relevant trends and approaches going back
to the historians of the southwestern frontier era (David Weber, David
Montejano), through the early twentieth-century Texas and California barrio
studies (Mario Garcia, George Sanchez) and finally interpret the
intersection of the field with broader traditions of urban, ethnic, and
regional history. The conceptual overview will end with a focus on the
study of Latino Chicago, which offers an exceptional contemporary
perspective for examining the strengths and limitations of space as a focal
point for history, while also providing a counterpoint to the southwestern
studies perspective that has dominated Latino (mostly Mexican-American)
history to date.
 

David Badillo is the Visiting Human Relations Specialist at UIC's Office
for Access and Equity. He is completing a book on the history of Latinos in
U.S. cities. Dr. Badillo has published articles on Mexican-American
religion in the Southwest and Midwest and given numerous professional talks
on wide ranging aspects of the Lation experience.
 

Thursday, March 29, 2001, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
 

Great Cities Institute
412 S. Peoria, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60607
312-996-8700