{"id":12828,"date":"2013-10-28T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=12828"},"modified":"2013-10-28T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:58:33","slug":"taco-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12828","title":{"rendered":"Taco USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gustavo Arellano will talk about “Taco USA” at 7pm on Mon, Oct 28<\/strong> (Young Auditorium). This is the second Fall 2013 Contemporary Issues Lecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arellano, author of Orange County: A personal history<\/em>; \u00a1Ask a Mexican!<\/em>; and Taco USA: How Mexican food conquered America<\/em>, is a lecturer with the Chicana and Chicano Studies<\/a> Dept at California State University, Fullerton. He also is an award-winning writer, investigative reporter, and editor for OC Weekly<\/em><\/a>, an alternative newspaper in Orange County CA, for which he writes the nationally-syndicated weekly column “\u00a1Ask a Mexican!<\/a>.” Arellano is the recipient of the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2007 President’s Award and an Impact Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition<\/a>, and was recognized by the California Latino Legislative Caucus with a 2008 Spirit Award for his “exceptional vision, creativity, and work ethic.” <\/p>\n

Andersen Library owns a copy of Taco USA<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, TX716.M4 A74 2012), but if it’s checked out UWW faculty\/staff and students may request copies of that title from other UW libraries via the free Universal Borrowing<\/a> service. You can read a biography<\/a> of Arellano in the Biography Reference Bank database. You can search for him in broadcast transcripts using the LexisNexis Academic<\/a> database to find, for example, his remarks on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation<\/em> on January 15, 2013 on “Shifts in race relations since Obama’s election<\/a>.” You also can search for him in YouTube<\/a> and find videos, such as “Ask a Mexican Already! Q&A with Gustavo Arellano ” (http:\/\/youtu.be\/d9EZUof8N48) and Arellano reading from Taco USA<\/em>:[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/_okQ7CJiNoU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

If you’d like assistance with finding additional materials, please ask a librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gustavo Arellano will talk about “Taco USA” at 7pm on Mon, Oct 28 (Young Auditorium). This is the second Fall 2013 Contemporary Issues Lecture. Arellano, author of Orange County: A personal history; \u00a1Ask a Mexican!; and Taco USA: How Mexican … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[52269,324,1876,178,1431,1638,353,52270,52271,267,658],"class_list":["post-12828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-arellano","tag-authors","tag-book-readings","tag-books","tag-broadcast-transcripts","tag-contemporary-issues-lecture-series","tag-lectures","tag-taco-usa","tag-transcripts","tag-videos","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12845,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12828\/revisions\/12845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}