Carlos Cortes to Perform Multicultural Play at Colleges Nine & Ten

April 05, 2016

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Join us for this gripping one-person play....

"A Conversation with Alana: One Boy's Multicultural Rite of Passage"

Monday, April 11th

7 pm – 9 pm

Colleges Nine & Ten MPR

In this one-person autobiographical play, Carlos Cortés presents his story of growing up as a young man of mixed ancestry in racially segregated, religiously divided post-World War II Kansas City, Missouri.  The son of a Mexican Catholic immigrant father and an American-born Jewish mother, whose parents came from Austria and Ukraine, Cortés had to learn to navigate Kansas City's rigid racial, ethnic, and religious fault lines, while simultaneously dealing with the internal conflicts of his own divided family.

Written and performed by Carlos E. Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Riverside.

For more information and accommodations contact: Julie Phillips, japhilli@ucsc.edu

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Co-sponsored by: The Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the CHES Diversity and Inclusion Program, the 10 colleges and all other affiliated housing units