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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ames Brochure 1996]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This is a brouchure from the Spring 1996 James Daniel Ames Lecture Series. The presentation this year was titled &quot;Women Meeting: From the Conference Table to the Street.&quot;  The speaker featured was Dr. Marysa Navarro who presented her work titled &quot;The Fourth World Women&#039;d Conference from a Latin American Feminist Perspective.&quot; The brochure contains Navarro&#039;s biography as well as a description about Women&#039;s Studies at Southwestern University and Jessie Daniel Ames. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Southwestern University]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[March 5, 1996]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Dejar Mi Idioma Jamás (Never Abandon My Language)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[To the right, a PDF file of Aurora E. Orozco’s original handwritten document is available for free download. Below this item’s description, you will find a direct transcript of the text.<br />
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	For Aurora E. Orozco, the Spanish language seeps into every artery of the Latina/o experience. In &quot;Dejar Mi Idioma Jamás,&quot; the first of her five essays, Orozco explores the potential impacts of the recent laws proposed in the Senate. These laws would outlaw the use of languages other than English by American citizens. For Latina/o Americans, Spanish is a fundamental part of their identity. Orozco discusses this through personal interactions with those that have attempted to take her lingual identity by force. She describes the heritage that it represents for her, a lineage that connects her to both her ancestors and her descendants. It is a spiritual connection that provides a sense of continuity between generations. She presents the religious nature of the Spanish language, as a sanctuary in which Latino/as may escape the oppression inflicted on them by the English language and those that would use it against them. The removal of which would leave them vulnerable to their oppressors. She then looks to recent United States’ legal history, Thomas Jefferson, and others throughout the country’s existence that have given support to Latina/os. Through this history, she sees the space that it has provided and will continue to provide for the safety of the Latina/o identity in the United States.<br />
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    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Dejar mi idioma jamás<br />
<br />
Parece que varios Senadores Anglos tienen en proyecto el pasar una ley para que la idioma Inglés sea la única que se hable en E. Unidos. Está encabezado por el Senador Steve Symns Republicano de Idaho. Si esto sucediera será muy triste para los hispanos, es como si nos cortaron el brazo derecho, sentiríamos incompletos. Es nuestro idioma la que hablaron nuestros antepasados y no la dejaron, es nuestra herencia está bien arraigada en nuestro corazón. La oímos en la casa, Iglesia, escuela, tele, y fiestas. Que piensan hacer con nuestra gente que no habla inglés. No me refiero a los ilegales, sino ha cientos de personas ancianos y jóvenes que nunca fueron a la escuela. No porque no hayan querido ir, sino porque sí les negó la educación. Otros porque fueron ignorados y discriminados por las maestros Anglos. Yo fui una de esas cuando iba ha la escuela. Tenía una maestra, la Sra. White, casi todas las tardes me dejaba en el cuarto después de clase. Me pegaba en mis manos con una tripa de hule colorada hasta que quería verter la sangre, pero nunca me pudo quitar de que hablara mi idioma español. Aprendí muy bien el inglés, pero mi idioma es algo muy mío, herencia que me dejaron mis padres, yo se los dejo ha mis hijos y nietos. <br />
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II	Que piensan hacer con todas las personas que pasan sus días oyendo el radio y viendo sus novelas en español. Es lo que le da sabor ha su vida, especialmente en los Pueblos chicos en donde son tan discriminados por allí viven más Anglos y ellos son los que mondan. Ojalá y que estos Senadores no se salgan con la suya, sería muy terrible para nuestra gente. Dicen que si no hablan Inglés, que se vayan para México, pero porque si aquí nacieron, sus antepasados eran de aquí de esta tierra. Thomas Jefferson, el autor de la Constitución no vio ningún peligro en la idioma español para que se hiciera una enmienda en la Constitución en el futuro. Él hablaba seis idiomas y una de ellas era español. Existe el documento que es el “Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo Feb. 2, 1848.” En este documento firmado por E. Unidos y México garantiza las propiedades, derechos, y la cultura de la población nativa. Ahora tenemos muchos de nuestras hispanas que terminan el Highschool, colegios Universidades y tenemos Senador Representante; abogados, doctores, ingenieros, profesores, maestros, químicos y mujeres y hombres en posiciones muy importante, Así estos seis Senadores nos quieren quitar nuestra idioma solo que hagan lo que hicieron los Alemanes con la Judios en la Segundo Guerra mundial juntarnos y matarnos para destruir nuestra cultura y idioma.<br />
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Aurora E. Orozco<br />
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    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Aurora E. Orozco]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Spanish]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aurora Orozco Ensayo 2]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This is a poem by Aurora E. Orozco titled Un dia en La Pisca de Algodon. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Aurora E. Orozco ]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Spanish]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aurora Orozco Poem 1]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A poem based on two experiences, one as a child and the other as a grown woman, in which Aurora Orozco was prohibited from speaking Spanish.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Aurora Orozco]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[Spanish]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aurora Orozco Poem 2]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Aurora Orozco Poem 3]]></dcterms:title>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Descriptions of Photos from &quot;Rostros y Almas/Faces and Souls&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The following document is a collection of descriptions used under the portraits of those women included in the &quot;Rostros y Almas/Faces and Souls&quot; Exhibition. Each description has been transcribed in Spanish and English to show case the importance of bilingual usage in Mexican-American Culture.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Mary Jessie Garza]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Discoveries of America Brown Symposium Program]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This document describes an outline for the 1992 Brown Symposium, titled “Discoveries of America.” The theme of the symposium was selected in order to coincide with the anniversary of Columbus’ arrival which occurred roughly five hundred years before, as well as the habitation of the continent by human beings roughly thirteen thousand years ago. The symposium discussed the various meanings of the “discovery” of America through an examination of the experiences of “Blacks, Women, Southwestern Explorers, the English, the Spanish [by way of Columbus], and Native Americans.” In the <a href="http://latinahistoryproject.omeka.net/items/show/33" target="_blank">1992 Southwestern Quarterly</a>, Dr. T. Walter Herbert, organizer of the symposium, states, “For better or worse, this means that America is always being discovered and rediscovered.” It was proposed that the symposium would create a space for reflection as the passing of time continually intensifies the meaning of the “discovery” of the Americas.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Southwestern University]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[December 5,1991]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Exhibit Content Details of &quot;Rostros y Almas/Faces and Souls&quot;]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This item provides a short description of what the &quot;Rostros y Almas/Faces and Souls&quot; Exhibition is displaying and what it is attempting to accomplish for the Mexican American community in Texas.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Southwestern University]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Exhibit Spotlight in San Antonio Newspaper]]></dcterms:title>
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