[Libs-Or] Fwd: [REFORMANET] The Chicana Imaginary in Picturebooks with Lettycia Terrones

Tue Apr 12 07:02:12 PDT 2022

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From: Melissa Villa Nicholas <mvnicholas at uri.edu>
Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 7:00 AM
Subject: [REFORMANET] The Chicana Imaginary in Picturebooks with Lettycia
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Join The Voices for Information Equity Webinar Series  for *The Chicana
Imaginary in Picturebooks
<https://events.uri.edu/event/the_chicana_imaginary_in_picturebooks?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=University+of+Rhode+Island#.YlWFHi1h1ao>*

*with Lettycia Terrones*

*Thursday, April 21, 12-1 EST, Register
<https://events.uri.edu/event/the_chicana_imaginary_in_picturebooks?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=University+of+Rhode+Island#.YlWFHi1h1ao>
*

*The Chicana Imaginary in Picturebooks *is an interdisciplinary oral
history project that examines Chicana artists’ creation and production of
picturebooks and the use of these picturebooks by Chicana-identified
librarians in their curation and performance of storytimes. Storytimes
bring together the creative work of artists/authors and librarians, and
thus locate the confluence of epistemological, pedagogical, aesthetic, and
institutional investments that intersect at the site of Latinx children’s
literature and its use in children’s story hours in U.S. public libraries. My
project questions multicultural theories of change traditional in LIS youth
services curriculum that study the cultural production of Latinx children’s
literature against a rubric of mainstream children’s literature. In
deploying frameworks of depletion or damage, multiculturalism seeks to fix
the perceived deficit of Latinx children’s literature through assimilation
and inclusion of these works into mainstream children’s literature. At the
same time, multiculturalism *also *deploys asset-based frameworks that seek
the validation of Latinx children’s literature by framing its contributions
as visible to mainstream children’s literature. Both approaches make
appeals for recognition and representation within the corpus of American
children’s literature. LIS youth services curriculum preoccupied with
social transformation or theories of change oriented in inclusion often
recur systems of domination in the research process and practitioner
practice because they are contingent upon whiteness, i.e., mainstream
children’s literature and standardized professional practices in children’s
services storytimes.

*Lettycia Terrones is a Ph.D. student in Information Sciences and Latina/o
Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Lettycia’s
research investigates the aesthetic/political choices Chicana picturebooks
artists make in creating works for children; and, the aesthetic/political
and pedagogical choices Chicana children’s librarians make in using these
works in storytime curation and storytelling performance. Lettycia’s essays
appear in the Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe, Research on Diversity in
Youth Literature, Label Me Latina/o (Summer 2021), The Horn Book Magazine,
and in the books Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and
Latinx Young Adult Literature, Voices of Resistance: Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Chican@ Children's Literature, and Multicultural Literature
for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds. Lettycia serves
on the 2022 & 2023 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury and works as a
librarian at California State University, Los Angeles. *

*Voices for Information Equity* is a webinar series hosted by the
University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Library and Information
Studies. This series discusses contemporary conversations or race, gender,
sexuality, class, and information equity. Learn more about the Information
Equity track
<https://harrington.uri.edu/academics/library-and-information-studies/mlis-curriculum/information-equity-diverse-communities-and-critical-librarianship-track/>
.

Dr. Melissa Villa Nicholas
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
University of Rhode Island
Pronouns: She/Hers
*Check out my most recent article "Digitizing the ‘Ideal’ Latina
Information Worker <https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/lsc_facpubs/25/>" in
American Quarterly *

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