Corina Vasaure, California State University, Chico

"Educational Intervention for Chicana/o Studies."

    Corina graduated from California State University at Chico in the Fall of  2001 with a degree in Multicultural and Gender Studies with an emphasis in Chicano Studies. Corina is originally from Fresno, California, but resides in Chico. She is currently traveling, but plans to go on to graduate school in Cultural Studies focusing on issues of race, class, and gender.
   Due to the ethnic and class diversity of Fresno, Corina decided to focus her senior thesis on two area high schools. The research focuses on the educational history of Chicana/o´s and compares the educational preventative programs, that either school has implemented to help students stay in school.
 

Jose Angel Hernandez, University of Chicago

"Mexican American Repatriation and Colonization: A look at Historical and the Origins of Anti-American Sentiment in Mexico."

José Angel Hernández was born in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico and raised in San Antonio’s Southside. After undergoing a process of what Guillermo Gómez-Peña calls “Chicanization,” José Angel joined the military and thereafter attended San Antonio (Community) College in Texas. 

At present, he is a doctoral student in the department of History at The University of Chicago. His interests are varied and include the repatriation and colonization of Mexicanos, Violence, anti-American sentiment during the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Anarchism  and Labor Unions, and Conjunto Music. The tentative title of his dissertation is “El México Perdido, El México Olvidado, y El México de Afuera: Mexican American Repatriation, Colonization, and the Origins of Anti-American Sentiment, 1836-1911.”