Keynote Lecture: Jimmy Patiño —”Our Oppressions are One, Our Dreams are One: Chicano Movement Solidarities with Black and Red Power”

Jimmy Patiño, University of Minnesota associate professor in Chicano and Latino studies, will delve into the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and outline its connection to the struggles of African Americans, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians against racism and economic exploitation. Patiño will also discuss how Chicano and Latino activists viewed the liberation of Black and Native peoples as essential to lasting social change.

The lecture is free and open to the public.