News
A story on the healthful foods now being offered by 7-Eleven convenience stores and whether they will change customers' purchase and dietary habits. The story quotes CSRC associate director Alex Ortega.
Aztlán fall issue cover artist Linda Vallejo on her Make 'Em All Mexican series, the ninth annual Latina/o Education Summit and related publications, a new book on Cuban American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta, October events, archive project update, and more! (Image: Linda Vallejo, "Mi Niña," 2012. Photograph courtesy of the artist.)
Donald Henriques, assistant professor of music at Cal State Fresno, reviewed The Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings (CSRC Press, 2012) for the journal Latin American Music Review.
The review states in error the book was published by University of Texas Press.
The Path to Knowledge and the False University, a mural designed by artist Roberto Chavez for a wall at East Los Angeles College in 1974 and controversially whitewashed in 1979, was photographed by Oscar R. Castillo shortly after its completion. Castillo's image is part of the Oscar R. Castillo Photographic Archives at the CSRC.
Mujeres Talk featured the essay "Collective Imaginaries" by CSRC Librarian Lizette Guerra. Guerra discusses her mentor and predecessor, Yolanda Retter-Vargas, a feminist, lesbian Chicana with an eye toward community. "'If we don’t collect these things,' Yolanda always said, 'no one else will.'"
The blog Repeating Islands announced the release of Luis Cruz Azaceta, volume 10 in the CSRC's A Ver: Revision Art History series. The blog focuses on Caribbean arts and cultures. Azaceta is a native of Cuba.
Journalist Carolina Miranda was interviewed on Radio Ambulante concerning the lack of representation of Latino artists in the art world and U.S. art institutions.
An op-ed by CSRC visiting scholar Alvaro Huerta concerning remarks by Texas Governor Rick Perry linking Central American child migrants to terrorist networks.
In this story celebrating the first norteño band to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the author, Agustin Gurza, mentions the Los Tigres Del Norte Foundation donation to the CSRC of $500,000 to support the Frontera Collection.
The photograph '47 Chevy in Wilmington, California (1972) by Oscar Castillo appears on the cover of the most current brochure for the Smithsonian Latino Center. The Smithsonian has acquired twelve photographs by the artist, most of which were featured in the CSRC-organized L.A.