Rosie Bermudez, Chican@ Studies, UC Santa Barbara, "Economic Justice is a Women's Issue: The Chicana Welfare Rights Organization's Challenge to Welfare Reform in the 1970s."

Event Date: 

Friday, April 20, 2018 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Event Location: 

  • Humanities and Social Sciences Building
  • Room 4041

Rosie Cano Bermudez is completing a dissertation, “Doing Dignity Work: Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization, 1967-1974.” Her research focuses on the struggles waged by single Chicana welfare mothers in East Los Angeles at the confluence of multiple social movements. She is currently a Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Fellow and Ford Fellow at UC Santa Barbara. Her chapter for discussion can found here. 

 

Photo of Rosie Bermudez
April 8, 2018 - 5:49pm