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Lecture: "From a Miscellaneous Memo to Food Justice"

Sep 16, 2026   12:00 pm  
Center for Writing Studies
Lecture
Sponsor
Illini Union Bookstore, Room 514 (access through street doors at northeast corner, NOT through bookstore)
Contact
Azlan Smith
E-Mail
azlans2@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

In 1968, Alejo Hernández, a resident of Stanislaus County, California, sued the USDA because the county failed to implement the Food Stamp Program. As a result of the lawsuit, the state government was forced to confront statewide hunger, especially in the counties that denied it. In this talk, Dr. Barragán Miranda will focus on writing from the margins of the archive, tracing Hernández’s story from a memo to an interview with his granddaughter.

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