News
- 2004 Luis Leal Award.
The second Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino
Literature will be presented to Rudolfo Anaya, at De La Guerra Plaza
during the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival.
The award is in honor of Luis Leal, distinguished Emeriti professor
at UCSB, and established by The University of California, Santa Barbara
and the Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival to recognized accomplished
writers of the Chicano/Latino experience.
Rudolfo Anaya , novelist, poet and short story writer, received the
National Medal of Arts in 2001. Among his novels, Bless Me, Ultima
(1972), a coming-of-age story set in the 1940's New Mexico, is considered
a classic of modern American literature, won the first Premio Quinto
Sol Award in 1971. He has written over 30 books of fiction and anthologies
of Chicano literature. These include Heart of Aztlan (1976), Tortuga
(1979), Alburquerque (1992), Zia Summer, (1995), Rio Grande Fall,
(1996), Jalamanta: a message from the Desert, (1996), Shaman Winter
(1999).
Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Plays
Songs of Love, and other novels, was chosen to receive the first Luis
Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature on September
20, 2003.
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The National Association of Chicana
and Chicano Studies (NACCS) has named Dr. Francisco Lomeli, professor
of Spanish and Portuguese and Chicana and Chicano Studies as well
as chairman of the Department of Black Studies, winner of its 2004
Scholar Award. The award recognizes his research and writing about
Mexican Americans and Mexican American writers and literature and
his contributions to the development of Chicana and Chicano studies
as an academic discipline.
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In July 2004, The UC Regents approved
the nation's first Ph.D. program in Chicana and Chicano Studies, after
years of student demonstrations, followed by years of faculty and
administrative groundwork at UCSB. The program is expected to admit
its first graduate students in the fall quarter of 2005. The department
currently has about 150 majors and 12 faculty members and serves hundreds
of other undergraduate students. The Coleccion Tloque Nahuaque Library
played an important part on the review process as a one of the support
units of the Chicano Studies
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