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CSUN Professor to Speak in Valley Pioneer Lecture

(NORTHRIDGE, Calif., March 6, 2008) — Cal State Northridge’s Center for Southern California Studies and the W. P. Whitsett Committee are hosting a lecture by CSUN Chicano/Chicana studies professor Rodolfo F. Acuña based on his book, "All Corridors Lead through Los Angeles: the 1933 San Joaquin Cotton Strike and the Mexican Odyssey."

The lecture will provide insight into the lives of Mexican and Mexican-American laborers during the 1930s. It is scheduled for Tuesday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Sierra Hall, room 451, on the east side of campus at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge.

"Professor Rodolfo Acuãa has made a pioneering contribution to scholarship on the Chicano’s experience in the U.S. with over a dozen books and many articles, reviews, and opinion pieces in La Opinión and the Los Angeles Times," said history department chair Thomas Maddux. "His lecture will explore the 1933 San Joaquin cotton strike during the depths of the Great Depression and in context of the activism Mexican workers gained through their common experience of migrating to the U.S."

Acuãa is a seasoned author, having written 19 books and more than 300 articles and book reviews. He received his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the University of Southern California and is the founding chair of the Chicano/Chicana Studies Department at Cal State Northridge, the largest Chicano/Chicana studies department in the nation, with thirty tenured professors.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking is $5 and is available in lot B3. For more information call (818) 677-3566.