University of Arizona Professor Booed at Commencement

Youtube ^ | May 24, 2010

[hcmama]

Sandra Soto addresses Arizona's SB 1070 law at commencement. The student reaction was encouraging.

[bray]

Loved the “Cut Your Hair!” line.

Pray for America

[Liz]

The new symbol of American can-do.

[Honorary Serb]

This fifth-column traitor is not only a purveyor of communist-anti-”gringo” “Greater Mexico” (Aztlan) “Latina/o Studies”, but also a feminazi and a purveyor of “queer theory”.

http://ws.web.arizona.edu/people/faculty/soto.php

She’s not a real professor—she’s a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER!!!!

Stand with Arizona! Kosovo is Serbia—Arizona is America!!!!

“I Love You, Arizona” (state song):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7xedmvJTzk&feature=related

[ridesthemiles]

Was this before or after diplomas were handed out?

If I were a parent in that audience- I would have stood up & called for my kid to come with me & I would have LEFT THE AREA.

[ridesthemiles]

Man- she is definately a 2-bagger.

You cannot take the chance that the first bag will break.

[Dante3]

On the photo she looks like a man with big-hair wig from the 1960s.

[ridesthemiles]

Go to MEXICO & study CHICANO studies, maam. Get the F&&& out of the USA.

The is another reason why this country is losing it’s own identity.

We won’t miss you.

Maybe you can get SOME education into the heads of the illegal intruders & get them to stay in their own country & clean it up there.

[billuk1]

Perhaps the country has a future...
I pray that we do.

[KC Burke]

One of the kids got a Doctorate there about six years back. The day was filled with similar leftist propoganda which wasn’t booed.

I think the issue is if the Graduates feel that a speaker is hijacking their ceremony they will get testy. If a professor or departmetn head is just reciting the standard line they will let them get away with it. In other words, these same students wouldn’t have let a speaker make a conservative diatribe about the new law either.

Like all young people, they are self-involved.

[kcvl]

Sandra K. Soto is Director of Graduate Studies, Co-coordinator of the Chicana/Latina Studies Concentration, and affiliate faculty of English, Mexican American Studies, and Latin American Studies.

She holds a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin (with a focus in Ethnic and Third World Literature). Her interdisciplinary research agenda draws on Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies, queer theory, and gender studies to offer innovative approaches to the overdetermined terrain of social relations, cultural representation, and knowledge production.

Her book Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire (University of Texas Press, 2010), replaces the race-based oppositional paradigm of Chicano literary studies with a less didactic, more flexible, framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality.

She is currently working on her second book tentatively titled Feeling Greater Mexico, which pursues unlikely connections between critical transnational studies and U.S. ethnic studies and focuses on the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.

Her teaching interests include Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies, feminist theories, transnational feminisms, critical race studies, US Third World Feminism, and queer theory.

[VOA]

Viva Los 1070!

Bump

[dennisw]

Core Faculty

Sandra Soto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies

• Office: xxxxxxx
• Phone: xxxxxxxxxx
• Email: xxxxx@email.arizona.edu
• Office Hours: TBA

Sandra K. Soto is Director of Graduate Studies, Co-coordinator of the Chicana/Latina Studies Concentration, and affiliate faculty of English, Mexican American Studies, and Latin American Studies. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin (with a focus in Ethnic and Third World Literature). Her interdisciplinary research agenda draws on Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies, queer theory, and gender studies to offer innovative approaches to the overdetermined terrain of social relations, cultural representation, and knowledge production. Her book Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire (University of Texas Press, 2010), replaces the race-based oppositional paradigm of Chicano literary studies with a less didactic, more flexible, framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. She is currently working on her second book tentatively titled Feeling Greater Mexico, which pursues unlikely connections between critical transnational studies and U.S. ethnic studies and focuses on the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Her teaching interests include Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies, feminist theories, transnational feminisms, critical race studies, US Third World Feminism, and queer theory.

[kcvl]

LGBT Studies Faculty Research - Executive Committee

Sandra K. Soto (executive committee) specializes in Chicana/o and Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies, Queer Theories, and Gender Studies. In Spring, 2008 she was a Research Fellow with the Center for Mexican American Studies and the University of Texas, where she completed her book manuscript, The De-Mastery of Desire: Reading Chican@ Like a Queer (forthcoming with the University of Texas Press). Her recent publications include “Seeing Through Photographs of Borderlands (Dis)Order” (Latino Studies) and “Aztec Queens and Gypsy Kings: Reading Ana Castillo’s Eroticized Mestizaje (Critical Essays on Chicano Studies).

http://tinyurl.com/33k6p69

******

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Volume 11, Number 2, 2005
E-ISSN: 1527-9375 Print ISSN: 1064-2684

Soto, Sandra K.
Cherrie Moraga’s Going Brown: “Reading Like a Queer”
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies - Volume 11, Number 2, 2005, pp. 237-263

Duke University Press

Sandra K. Soto - Cherrie Moraga’s Going Brown: “Reading Like a Queer” - GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11:2 GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.2 (2005) 237-263 Cherre Moraga’s Going Brown “Reading Like a Queer” Sandra K. Soto Every person who comes to a queer self-understanding knows in one way or another that her stigmatization is connected with gender, the family, notions of individual freedom, the state, public speech, consumption and desire, nature and culture, maturation, reproductive politics, racial and national fantasy, class identity, truth and trust, censorship, intimate life and social display, terror and violence, health care, and deep cultural norms about the bearing of the body.

[Sloth]

That’s a professor? She’s a terrible public speaker, obviously just reciting a written piece verbatim. A decent speaker at least attempts to engage the audience.

[gogeo]

On behalf of the faculty of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, I wish you the very best...“

WTF???

What rocket scientist thought it would be a GOOD idea to have this twit as a commencement speaker?

[Luke21]

Now we know who Prince Obo will place on the Supreme Court next.

[smokingfrog]

Oh brother!

Sandra K. Soto is Director of Graduate Studies, Co-coordinator of the Chicana/Latina Studies Concentration, and affiliate faculty of English, Mexican American Studies, and Latin American Studies. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin (with a focus in Ethnic and Third World Literature). Her interdisciplinary research agenda draws on Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies, queer theory, and gender studies to offer innovative approaches to the overdetermined terrain of social relations, cultural representation, and knowledge production. Her book Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire (University of Texas Press, 2010), replaces the race-based oppositional paradigm of Chicano literary studies with a less didactic, more flexible, framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. She is currently working on her second book tentatively titled Feeling Greater Mexico, which pursues unlikely connections between critical transnational studies and U.S. ethnic studies and focuses on the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Her teaching interests include Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies, feminist theories, transnational feminisms, critical race studies, US Third World Feminism, and queer theory.

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People really get paid for that?
http://ws.web.arizona.edu/people/faculty/soto.php

[mom4melody]

Bump to watch at home.

[Katarina]

LOL they are probably just glad she is done with her BS.

[Rennes Templar]

How is this woman not in Obama’s cabinet?

When she’s not teaching, she’s probably helping illegals across the border.

The fact that the U of A had her speak, speaks volumes of their leftist leanings.