| Texas is
the nation’s only state where original, subaltern
populations—African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Native Americans—have
been present since its incorporation into the Union. Despite the longevity of
these groups, their civic status—gains in politics, econo-mics, education—is
marked by persistent marginalization and exclusion. This semester’s dialogues
intend to magnify the need for the Trinity community to seek ways of examining,
understanding, and resolving tenacious in-equities through more than a dozen
campus events. All events are free and open to the public unless noted
otherwise.
THE TRUE
STORY OF SUPERHEROES/
LA VERDADERA HISTORIA DE LOS SUPERHÉROES
 Photographs
by Dulce Pinzón
Opening Reception
| 7 pm, January 26
Dicke Art Building, Art Gallery
Illustrated Lecture
| 7:30 pm, January 28
Ruth Taylor
Recital Hall
Pinzón’s
photographs capture and recode an unnoticed and often vilified sector of
society: Mexican immigrant workers. Dressed in Mexican and U.S. superhero garb, immigrant workers are documented performing their everyday tasks of
baby-sitting, preparing food, and doing other jobs that are taken for granted. This
exhibit honors the brave and determined men and women who help communities grow
and prosper, despite their own struggles with low wages, long hours, and
difficult labor conditions. Pinzón’s exhibit and lecture are part of the
Stieren Arts Enrichment Series.
N*gger, Wetb*ck, Ch*nk
The Race
Show
 7
pm, February 20 | Laurie Auditorium
The critics
call this evening of guerilla theatre “explosive,” “inspiring,” and “muy
significativo.” Join the Speak Theatre Arts production company as it brings
“the national discomfort zone” of racial tensions and ethnic relations into the
Trinity Bubble. Performance to be followed by talkback sessions.
A Night of Poetry, Music, and Drama
Performance
Artist Rosina Conde
7
pm, March 11 | Chapman Auditorium
Part of
Trinity’s Lennox Seminar on Transnational Mexican Artistic and Cultural
Production for spring 2008, Conde’s performance symbolically crosses political
boundaries to explore dimensions of human expression that transcend physical
borders. Her work draws on her background as a “profesionista de multiusos” or
a “global professional” that has included journal-ism, poetry, costume design,
editing, singing, and performing. Her past performances have included Señorita
Maquiladora, and a personal retrospective, Those Were the Days.
 Forum Theatre Project 2008
Facing San Antonio’s Homeless
8
pm, March 13 and 14 | Attic Theatre
This
original production uses performance strategies and theatrical
language to focus on the individual’s sense of belonging to our San Antonio community. Trinity students will collaborate with AtticRep members to research
homelessness and capture the daily difficulties faced by this marginalized
population in the city. Based on Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed
tradition from Brazil, the play will invite audience involvement in “rewriting” the action during a discussion session and subsequent restaging of the play as
part of each evening’s performance. More information is available at
www.atticrep.org/Forum.htm.
Screening and Meet the Director
Yolanda Cruz
Sueños
Binacionales/Bi-National Dreams
 7
pm, April 16 | Northrup Hall 040
Part of
Trinity’s Lennox Seminar on Transnational Mexican Artistic and Cultural
Production, this film tells the stories of the Mixtec people who have been
immigrating to California for more than 30 years. It also documents the more
recent stories of the Chatinos who have been going to North Carolina for the past
ten years. Documentary maker Cruz takes a quotidian approach to filmmaking to
find the commonalities among people. “I like to encounter histories in the
kitchen, in the country, in the streets. Visual language is universal.”
Additional Events
January 25 | musical performance | Composer Azul | 6 pm, Holt Center
January 25 | public lecture | Y qué es el Transnational Border Mexican Culture? |
Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, Department of Transnational and Transborder Studies, Arizona State University | 7 pm, Holt Center
February 12 | reading and commentary | Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race | Laura Gomez, University of New Mexico School of Law |
5 pm, Science Lecture Hall
February 22 | panel discussion | Voices and Literatures in Las Fronteras | Norma Cantú, University of Texas, San Antonio, and Norma Alarcon, independent scholar,
Socorro Tabuenca, San Diego State University | 7 pm, Holt Center
March 25 | reading and commentary | There’s No José Here | Gabe Thompson |
5 pm, Science Lecture Hall
March 28 | public lecture | Performing Borders: De Aquí y de Allá | Laura Gutiérrez, University of Arizona | 7 pm, Holt Center
April 1 | public lecture | The Silent Crippling of the Marginalized: Lead Poisoning
and the State in Mexico | Ramona Perez, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University | 7 pm, Cowles Life Sciences 336
April 2 | food for thought luncheon | The Immigration Debate in the United States | David Spener, Department of Sociology, Trinity University | 12:15-1:15 pm Fiesta Room
(tickets for this event must be purchased by calling the Alumni Office at 999-8404)
April 18 | public lecture | De Imágenes y Sueños: Transnational Border Visual Cultures | Tomás Ybarra Frausto | 7 pm, Holt Center
April 22 | public lecture | The Distorted Immigration Debate: Crime, Language,
Health, and the Widening Disconnect Between Rhetoric and Reality | Ruben Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine | 5 pm, Science Lecture Hall
Funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
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