We hosted a book launch for Renato Rosaldo’s -Professor Emeritus at New York Univesity in Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis- newest prose poetry collection. 

The Chasers focuses on a group of twelve Mexican American Tucson High School friends known as the Chasers as they grew up, graduated, and fell out of touch. Derived from interviews with the Chasers and three other friends conducted after their fiftieth high school reunion, Rosaldo’s poems present a chorus of distinct voices and perspectives that convey the realities of Chicano life on the borderlands from the 1950s to the present.

Alyshia Galvez presented and was accompanied by musician Gustavo Aguilar.

Galvez is a cultural and medical anthropologist with specializations in the areas of immigration and migration, citizenship and rights, Mexico and Mexican populations, Latin America, and Latin@s in the United States, trade, health, health disparities, reproduction, chronic disease, religion, and performance.

Aguilar is an Assistant Arts Professor of Collaborative Arts. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Corpus Christi State University, a Master of Music from The University of Akron, a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Contemporary Performance from the University of California, San Diego.

This event was free and organized by Pamela Calla, co-sponsored by The Anthropology Department and CLACS, The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.