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Querencia: Leveraging Place & Belonging in Chandler

This library guide complements the Fall 2024 "Querencia: Leveraging Place & Belonging in Chandler" traveling exhibit in the ASU Polytechnic campus library.

Querencia

"This community-focused exhibition presents the oral histories of long-term Hispanic/Latino residents in Chandler’s historic barrios alongside recent migrant communities. Querencia refers to and explores the process in which community creates a sense of place and belonging. A variety of voices share experiences from the city’s founding days to its current growth and development. Residents speak about struggle and segregation, but also love for their neighborhood—founded on community and connection. 

Querencia is presented in collaboration with Dr. Rafael Martínez, Assistant Professor in Southwest Borderlands at Arizona State University. This exhibition is supported by a grant from the City of Chandler Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Division with additional support from the Chandler Museum Foundation."

Querencia—ChandlerpediA - Confluence. (n.d.). Retrieved September 18, 2024, from https://chandlerpedia.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CHANDLERPE/pages/1437663233/Querencia

Supporting Materials

Dr. Rafael Martínez, Assistant Professor in Southwest Borderlands at Arizona State University has curated the following reference guides.

The ASU Library acknowledges the twenty-three Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. ASU Library acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students and patrons. We are advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies within contemporary library practice. ASU Library welcomes members of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh, and all Native nations to the Library.