The East Side Freedom Library, the Ramsey County Historical Society, and the Ramsey County Library invite you to History Revealed: A Shared Community: Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota, a presentation by Dr. Dionicio Valdes, Professor Emeritus of History, Michigan State University.

Register here to join this event on Zoom.

Professor Dionicio Valdes directed the U of M’s Ph.D. program in Chicano/Latino Studies and taught in it for 23 years before moving to Michigan State University. He has been a very active and respected scholar. His publications include El Pueblo Mexicano en Detroit y Michigan: A Social History (private printing, 1981); Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1917-1970 (University of Texas Press, 1991); Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2000); Mexicans in Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006); and Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement Before the UFW: Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, and California (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Dr. Valdes will take us on an examination of the birth and 20th century history of the Chicano Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, with particular attention to the role played by the political turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s throughout the nation and in the Twin Cities. He will focus on the creative ongoing tensions between advocates of distinct visions, both within the academic world and within the Twin Cities community, that created the Department and have supported it for more than half a century.

Free and open to all