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1980-2005
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Title: MALCS Papers Volume II,
Date (inclusive): Ca. 1980-2005
Collection number: 32
Creator: MALCS Mujeres
Activas En Letras y Cambio Social 1980-2005
Extent:
Approx. 40 linear feet
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: This collection of approximately 40 linear
feet consists of MALCS various institutional papers with particualr
emphasis on its important Summer programs, newsletter and membership
related papers. This collection also includes video and audio tapes of
historic relevance.
MALCS Mission statement:
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS, Women Active in Letters and Social Change) is an organization of Chicanas/ Latinas and Native American women working in academia and in community settings with a common goal: to work toward the support, education and dissemination of Chicana/ Latina and Native American women's issues. Chicanas/Latinas and Native American women from a variety of institutions gather at this yearly Summer Institute to network, share information, offer support and re-energize. The MALCS Summer Institute is one of the few places Chicanas/Latinas and Native American women can come together without the influence of male and/or Euro-American consciousness or opinion. While some charge that this is separatist, the MALCS reply is not one of apology. This is our space. The dynamics of this Chicana/Latina and Native American woman space is worth guarding, even in the face of criticism from those we respect and work with in our home institutions. (--Laredo, Texas, 1991)
**Please note that accents have been eliminated inorder to accomodate and facilitate the use of all types of web browsers.
Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can contact the research center at www.chicano.ucla.edu.
Biographical notes courtesy of MALCS at http://malcs.net/
MALCS Mission statement:
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS, Women Active in Letters and Social Change) is an organization of Chicanas/ Latinas and Native American women working in academia and in community settings with a common goal: to work toward the support, education and dissemination of Chicana/ Latina and Native American women's issues. Chicanas/Latinas and Native American women from a variety of institutions gather at this yearly Summer Institute to network, share information, offer support and re-energize. The MALCS Summer Institute is one of the few places Chicanas/Latinas and Native American women can come together without the influence of male and/or Euro-American consciousness or opinion. While some charge that this is separatist, the MALCS reply is not one of apology. This is our space. The dynamics of this Chicana/Latina and Native American woman space is worth guarding, even in the face of criticism from those we respect and work with in our home institutions. (--Laredo, Texas, 1991)
**Please note that accents have been eliminated inorder to accomodate and facilitate the use of all types of web browsers.
Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can contact the research center at www.chicano.ucla.edu.
Biographical notes courtesy of MALCS at http://malcs.net/
Physical location: SRLF
Language of Material: Collection materials in English, Spanish
Collection is open for research by appointment for UCLA student and
faculty researchers as well as independent researchers. To view the
collection or any part of it, please contact the archivist at
archivist@chicano.ucla.edu or the librarian at yretter@chicano.ucla.edu
For students and faculty researchers of UCLA, all others by
permission only. Copyright has not been assigned to the Chicano Studies
Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist and/or the
Librarian at the Chicano Studies Research Center Library. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research
Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained.
[Identification of item], MALCS Papers Volume II, 32, Chicano Studies
Research Center, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.
Papers donated by MALCS officer, Nancy Barcelo. Deed on file at the
UCLA CSRC library archive office, 180 Haines Hall, UCLA.
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS, Women Active in
Letters and Social Change) is an organization of Chicanas/ Latinas and
Native American women working in academia and in community settings with
a common goal: to work toward the support, education and dissemination
of Chicana/ Latina and Native American women's issues. Chicanas/Latinas
and Native American women from a variety of institutions gather at this
yearly Summer Institute to network, share information, offer support and
re-energize. The MALCS Summer Institute is one of the few places
Chicanas/Latinas and Native American women can come together without the
influence of male and/or Euro-American consciousness or opinion. While
some charge that this is separatist, the MALCS reply is not one of
apology. This is our space. The dynamics of this Chicana/Latina and
Native American woman space is worth guarding, even in the face of
criticism from those we respect and work with in our home institutions.
(--Laredo, Texas, 1991)
History of MALCS
Chicana/Latina women were an integral part of the activities collectively recognized as the Chicano Movimiento, most active and visible from 1964 to 1975. By the early 1980s their contributions were barely acknowledged. Sensing this collective loss of voice, feeling highly isolated, eager to extend their knowledge to other women, and desiring to change society's perceptions, a group of Chicana/Latina academic women gathered at the University of California, Davis, in spring 1982. Mujeres Activas En Letras Y Cambio Social (MALCS) was established at this first meeting. The MALCS declaration, written one year later at the Berkeley campus, formally established the organization and affirmed the membership's dedication to the unification of their academic life with their community activism.
MALCS hosts a summer research institute (established in 1985), publishes a newsletter and Trabajos Monograficos (a working paper series changed in 1991 to the Series in Chicana Studies). The series is in its second volume and soon to become the Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies. MALCS members also helped establish a permanent research center at the University of California, Davis, in March 1991, to develop Chicanas/Latinas as scholars. It was to be a center for knowledge by, for, and about Chicanas/Latinas. MALCS is an academic organization that articulates Chicana/Latina feminist perspectives.
--Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell,
Chicana/Latina women were an integral part of the activities collectively recognized as the Chicano Movimiento, most active and visible from 1964 to 1975. By the early 1980s their contributions were barely acknowledged. Sensing this collective loss of voice, feeling highly isolated, eager to extend their knowledge to other women, and desiring to change society's perceptions, a group of Chicana/Latina academic women gathered at the University of California, Davis, in spring 1982. Mujeres Activas En Letras Y Cambio Social (MALCS) was established at this first meeting. The MALCS declaration, written one year later at the Berkeley campus, formally established the organization and affirmed the membership's dedication to the unification of their academic life with their community activism.
MALCS hosts a summer research institute (established in 1985), publishes a newsletter and Trabajos Monograficos (a working paper series changed in 1991 to the Series in Chicana Studies). The series is in its second volume and soon to become the Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies. MALCS members also helped establish a permanent research center at the University of California, Davis, in March 1991, to develop Chicanas/Latinas as scholars. It was to be a center for knowledge by, for, and about Chicanas/Latinas. MALCS is an academic organization that articulates Chicana/Latina feminist perspectives.
--Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell,
June 1983 MALCS Declaración
We are the daughters of Chicano working class families involved in higher education. We were raised in labor camps and barrios, where sharing our resources was the basis of survival. Our values, our strength derive from where we came. Our history is the story of the working class people--their struggles, commitments, strengths, and the Chicano/Mexicano experience in the United States. We are particularly concerned with the conditions women face at work, in and out of the home. We continue our mothers' struggle for economic and social justice. The scarcity of Chicanas in institutions of higher education requires that we join together to identify our common problems, to support each other and to define collective solutions. Our purpose is to fight the race, class, and gender oppression we have experienced in the universities. Further, we reject the separation of academic scholarship and community involvement. Our research strives to bridge the gap between intellectual work and active commitment to our communities. We draw upon a tradition of political struggle. We see ourselves developing strategies for social change--a change emanating from our communities. We declare the commitment to seek social, economic, and political change throughout our work and collective action. We welcome Chicanas who share these goals and invite them to join us. (--June 1983)
This collection of approximately 40 linear feet consists of MALCS
various institutional papers with particualr emphasis on its important
Summer programs, newsletter and membership related papers. This
collection also includes video and audio tapes of historic relevance.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Correspondence
- Series 2. Summer Institute and related
- Series 3. Administrative papers
- Series 4. Newsletters and related
- Series 4. Mailing lists
- Series 5. Flyers, clippings, public relations
- Series 6. Miscellaneous papers
Please see also our small M.A.L.C.S. collection and our Nancy Cantu
MALCS collections.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Chicana
Feminism
Latina
Latina / Chicana higher education
Social justice
Summer Institute
Women's rights