Oct 18, 2024 · Department of Cultural Affairs

ADVISORY: National Hispanic Cultural Center hosts Book Club finale featuring author Ram�n Guti�rrez on Oct. 23

Hi Everyone,

The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) is thrilled to welcome historian and writer Ramón Gutiérrez, author of New Mexico’s Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement for a book-signing and author’s talk during the Center’s final 2024 Book Club.

What: NHCC Book Club, featuring historian and author Ramón Gutiérrez. Since launching this spring, NHCC’s in-person Book Club events have offered a monthly forum for lovers of literature to explore a variety of fiction and nonfiction stories.

This month, the Book Club will focus on Gutiérrez’s New Mexico’s Moses , which examines the religious formation of López Tijerina – one of the leaders of the Mexican-American/Chicano Civil Rights Movement – during the 1940s and 1950s. An Assemblies of God evangelist turned Pentecostal itinerant preacher, Tijerina used his secularized apocalyptic theology to inspire the dispossessed heirs of Spanish and Mexican land grants fighting to recuperate ancestral lands throughout Northern New Mexico and the Southwest.

This is a free community event. Please register in advance HERE .

Who: Gutiérrez is a professor emeritus and was the Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History and the director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. A former MacArthur Fellow, he previously taught at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the ethnic studies department and its Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.

Where: Salón Ortega at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, located at 1701 4th Street SW.

When: Wednesday, Oct. 23. The reception and book-signing starts at 6:00 p.m., followed by a reading and Q&A at 7:00 p.m.

Why: The talk will offer an opportunity for deeper discussion about the Chicano Movement and one of its most influential and controversial leaders.

Thanks, Stephen

Stephen Hamway stephen.hamway@dca.nm.gov (505) 412-3758

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