Lydia R Otero

Interests

Research

Social, Cultural and Urban History; Historical Preservation; Chicana History; Tucson History

Teaching

MAS 265: Overview of Mexican American Studies,MAS 485/585: Chicana/Mexicana History,MAS/GEOG 423:Latino Urbanization,MAS 560: Chican@ Historiography

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Otero, L. R. (2010). La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City. University of Arizona Press.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Lydia R. Otero, La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010).;

Chapters

• Otero, L. R. (2008). La Placita Committee: Claiming Place and Challenging Historical Memory. University of Illinois Press.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Lydia R. Otero, “La Placita Committee: Claiming Place and Challenging Historical Memory” in Mapping Memories and Migrations: Locating Boricua/Chicana Histories, Vicki L. Ruiz and John R. Chávez, eds., University of Illinois Press, 2008.;

Journals/Publications

• Otero, L. R. (2018). "New Directions for La Casa Cordova: Recentering the Latinx Past and Present in Tucson". History News: The Magazine of the American Association for State and Local History, Summer 2018., Volume 73(#3), 8-12.
• Otero, L. R., & Cammarota, J. (2011). Notes from the Ethnic Studies Home Front: Student Protests, Texting, and Subtexts of Oppression. International Journal Of Qualitative Studies In Education: Special Issue: Youth Resistance Revisited: New Theories of Youth Negotiations of Educational Injustices.
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  ABSTRACT: The protest against Arizona House Bill 2281 designed to ban Ethnic Studies from K-12 public schools on 12 May 2010 in Tucson resulted in 15 arrests. Students walked out of their classrooms in large numbers to defend their Mexican American Studies curriculum and program. Based primarily on participant observation of the protest, the authors examine the pedagogies of transformational resistance, interrogate HB 2281's repressive aspects, and illuminate the role of social networking media as expressions of cultural citizenship in the twenty-first century.;Your Role: First Author;Full Citation: Otero, Lydia R., and Julio Cammarota. 2011. "Notes from the Ethnic Studies Home Front: Student Protests, Texting, and Subtexts of Oppression." International Journal Of Qualitative Studies In Education (QSE) 24, no. 5: 639-648. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed March 2, 2012).;Electronic: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;

Presentations

• Otero, L. R. (2018, march). The history and politics involved in establishing Mexican American museums and cultural centers. Women's Histpry Month. Bakersfield College.
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  I was part of the Bakersfield College Distinguished Speakers Distinguished Speaker Series for Women's History Month that also included Anita Hill and Dolores Huerta.
• Romero, E. D., Otero, L. R., Pinate, M., & Ortiz, M. (2016, 2016-02-10). Barrio Stories Project. Show and Tell @ Playground. Playground Bar and Lounge: Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry.
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  Our team gave a public presentation in downtown Tucson in preparation for the Barrio Stories Project.
• Otero, L. R. (2011, 2011-03-01). Colorado State University. Individual presentation. CSU Pueblo Campus.
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  Title: Arizona's Political Climate";Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
• Otero, L. R. (2011, 2011-08-01). Placemaking and Cultural Landscapes. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. California State University, Los Angeles.
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  This panel expands Chicana Studies by highlighting the dynamics involved in placemaking. Based on ethnographic field work and oral interviews, presenters examine the underlying demands and public expressions of Mexicana/Chicana/indigenous women in the United States that alter perceptions of place through their participation in creating cultural landscapes that speak to difference and multiple cultural expressions.;Your Role: Panelist;Submitted: Yes;Type of Presentation: Panel Discussant (Reporting Research);
• Otero, L. R. (2011, 2011-10-01). Do Historians Matter?: Perspectives on Arizona in 2010. Western History Association. Oakland, California.
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  Invited to present by the Committee on Race in the American West;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Roundtable;
• Otero, L. R. (2008, 2008-07-01). Mexican American History in the Southwest. New Technologies and Contemporary Issues Institute. UA Campus.
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  Featured speaker for the Iraqi Youth Leadership Exchange Program organized by World Learning, an international nongovernmental organization.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Otero, L. R. (2008, 2008-08-01). Public History in Academic Settings: The Power of Remembering and Telling. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social 2008 Summer Institute. University of Utah.
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  ;Submitted: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Otero, L. R. (2008, 2008-10-01). La Plaza Theatre: A Site of Cultural Continuity in the Tucsonense Downtown. University of Texas, El Paso History Department.
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  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;

Reviews

• Otero, L. R. (2014. Buildings & Landscapes: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
• Otero, L. R. (2011. The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial California by Barbara L. Voss.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: OTERO, L. R. (2011), The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial California. By Barbara L. Voss. Transforming Anthropology, 19: 81-82. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01121_4.x;
• Otero, L. R. (2010. World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights edited by Richard Griswold del Castillo. (Summer 2010);
• Otero, L. R. (2009. Historic Preservation and the Imagined West by.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Historic Preservation and the Imagined West by Judy Mattivi Morley. New Mexico Historical Review (Summer 2009). ;
• Otero, L. R. (2008. Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie MĂ©ndez-Negrete.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie MĂ©ndez-Negrete. New Mexico Historical Review(Summer 2008);
• Otero, L. R. (2008. The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing by Kathleen Alcalá.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing by Kathleen Alcalá. Journal of Arizona History (Summer 2008). ;

Others

• Otero, L. R. (2019, January). "Reflecting on Shirley Achor’s Mexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio Forty Years Later". University of Arizona's Open Arizona Project. https://open.uapress.arizona.edu/read/untitled-97122e1d-398e-44a0-90cf-d9cb5ba24e52/section/fa01304b-5531-4068-b392-725a800bc98b
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  Open Arizona is a collection of open-access University of Arizona Press titles made available through the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The scholarship, histories, and approaches in the selected titles emphasize the relevance of the southwestern United States to understanding contemporary American life. Open Arizona is part of the Humanities Open Book program, jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
• Otero, L. R. (2015, October 22). Guest Opinion: Modernism Week: A Golden Age for Whom?. Tucson Weekly. http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/guest-opinion/Content?oid=5944519
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  As part of an interdisciplinary department, I press for reevaluating this type of as a category of community engaged scholarship. Pieces such as this indicate civic engagement and its arguments are built around an extensive research specialty. I consider it a scholarly production.
• Otero, L. R. (2012). Served as a consultant for Safos Dance Theatre's "Silent Stories..
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  Served as a consultant for Safos Dance Theatre's "Silent Stories.
• Otero, L. R. (2008). Alva Torres.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Authored "Alva Torres" for the Latinas in History: An Interactive Website Projecthttp://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/latinashistory/;Electronic: Yes;Type of Publication: Encyclopedia Entry;