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"La Raza" Newspaper and Magazine Records donated to the CSRC, national and international exhibitions with CSRC materials, Education Summit tickets now on sale, and more! (Image: Roosevelt High School walkout, March 1970. Photo by La Raza staff)
The first issue of the peer-reviewed online journal Museum and Curatorial Studies Review features a review of the L.A. Xicano exhibition Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement. The review was written by Robb Hernandez, professor of English at UC Riverside, and includes photos of the exhibition.
Museum and Curatorial Studies Review, Summer 2013
Alvaro Huerta, CSRC visiting scholar in 2011-12, has published a book based on the research he conducted while at the CSRC.
Carlos M. Haro, CSRC assistant director emeritus and organizer of the annual CSRC Latina/o Education Summit, was profiled in Montebello Life Magazine for his role in the Montebello-Ashiya Sister Cities Association. Haro currently serves as president of the association, which was established in 1961 to facilitate monthlong residential exchanges between high school students in Montebello Hills and Ashiya, Japan.
On July 30, 2013, the leaders of the Latinos & Economic Security Project presented recent research findings. The webinar includes a videorecording of the presenters as well as a PowerPoint.
A new poetry anthology from Arte Público Press includes the poem "Tarde sobria" by Alurista. The poem was originally published in the famed Chicano poet's groundbreaking book Floricanto en Aztlán, published by the CSRC Press in 1971 with a new edition in 2012.