La votación: The Ballad of the Vote and New Mexico’s Suffrage Movement
La votación: The Ballad of the Vote and New Mexico’s Suffrage Movement
Carmella Scorcia Pacheco
Wednesday
March 30th
4 p.m.
Mountain Time
Register to attend this online event at
https://tinyurl.com/NMSuffrage
Join us for a discussion on how Nuevo Mexicanas mobilized to fight for the right to vote and how oral balladry provides a window into such a transformational time. In this presentation, Carmella will speak about how the ballad, El Corrido de la votación, connects to key historical moments of New Mexico. She will explain how cultural narratives such as this one can serve as a means to tell alternate histories while encouraging others to utilize the community and its collections as a means to recover one’s heritage and language.
Carmella Scorcia Pacheco is a PhD Candidate in Border Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on utilizing the folkloric record to recover feminine-voiced narratives of 19th and early 20th century New Mexico. As a scholar, educator, and cultural worker, she engages with archival studies, community fieldwork, folkloristics, and expressive culture of the U.S. Southwest Borderlands in the form of literature, music, art, and language. Her work has been featured in The New Mexico Historical Review, The Journal of the Southwest, Borderlore Online Journal, and the Smithsonian Folklife Magazine.
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This Program is Sponsored by Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library
Santa Fe Public Library, Community Services Department, City of Santa Fe, New Mexico