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SUMMARY:2025 Arizona Author Series: Laura K. Muñoz: "Desert Dreams: Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality"
DESCRIPTION:\n\nDr. Laura K. Muñoz will present a talk about her book 
 Desert Dreams: Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality as 
 part of the State of Arizona Research Library’s 2025 Arizona Author 
 Series. The talk is at 12 p.m. MST\, Thursday\, March 13th\, and will be 
 held virtually on Zoom. Attendees are encouraged to register to receive the 
 link to the presentation. After the talk\, there will be time for questions 
 from the audience.\n\nThis presentation will be recorded and made available 
 on our YouTube channel. Registered attendees will receive a link to the 
 recording once it is available. \n\nAbout Desert Dreams: Muñoz’s book is 
 the first comprehensive social history of Arizonenses\, or Arizona 
 Mexicans\, that focuses on their legal and political struggles before 1960. 
 As Arizona became a Territory and later a state\, Arizonenses expected to 
 be treated as citizens. Instead\, they discovered they needed to fight for 
 political quality\, particularly access to an education. Through their 
 collective organizing and legal battles\, they filed the first 
 desegregation case in the state (Romo v. Laird (1925)) and inspired a 
 broader call-to-action for civil rights. \n\nYou can read and listen to 
 books about the history and culture of Arizona for free on Reading Arizona. 
  \n\nDr. Laura K. Muñoz is an associate professor of History and Ethnic 
 Studies at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned her PhD in American 
 History at Arizona State University and is a former National Academy of 
 Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. \n\nIn 2023\, Penn Press published 
 her first book\, Desert Dreams: Mexican Arizona and the Politics of 
 Educational Equality that details how Mexican American families\, parents\, 
 and children embraced education as a pathway to sustained citizenship\, 
 political engagement\, and cultural preservation from the 1870s to 
 1950s.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of the 2025 Arizona Author 
 Series. This program is supported by the Arizona State Library\, Archives & 
 Public Records\, a division of the Secretary of State\, with federal funds 
 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.\n\nArizona Center for 
 the Book\, a Library of Congress Center for the Book Affiliate.
ORGANIZER;CN="Yahm Levin":MAILTO:ylevin@azlibrary.gov
CATEGORIES:Arizona Author Series
CONTACT;CN="Yahm Levin":MAILTO:ylevin@azlibrary.gov
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