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The Los Angeles Times published an article on Oscar Castillo's expansive image collection of Chicano life and protests in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early 1970s which scholars see as both journalism and fine art.
Smithsonian archivist visits the CSRC, "Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!" screens at UCLA Film & TV Archive, CSRC Press holiday book sale, and more in this month's newsletter. (Image: Still from "Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!" directed by and starring Efraín Gutiérrez)
Miguel Juárez discusses organizing an exhibition featuring the works of Oscar R. Castillo as part of this year's Western History Association Conference.
In response to comments by presidential candidate Donald Trump, Esteban Torres, a former U.S. Congressman for California’s 34th District (Pico Rivera), spoke to the Los Angeles Times about Operation Wetback, a program that forced or compelled thousands of immigrants to leave the United States in the 1950s, calling it a misguided model for future deportation policy. UCLA history professor and former CSRC associate director Kelly Lytle Hernandez was also quoted in the story.
More than 800 social scientists from all parts of the U.S. recently submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court presenting evidence on the need to maintain colleges’ rights to consider race as one of many factors in selecting students.
An LA Weekly feature story discussed CSRC collections donor Guadalupe Esquivel Rosales and her work on her Instagram project, which utilizes crowdsourcing to identify ephemera pertaining to Chicano party scenes in the 1990s.
CSRC scholars in Cuba, November events, CSRC Librarian position open, fellowship opportunities, and more in this month's newsletter. (Photo: Maria Elena Ruiz at Enfermería 2015 in Havana)
The UCLA McNair Research Scholars Program is a two-year research intensive program that prepares undergraduate students to apply to the best graduate programs in the country and excel in graduate school while pursuing a Ph.D. in the humanities or the social sciences.
UCLA Newsroom published an article about Ely Guerra's performance and visit to UCLA as a 2015-16 UC Regents' Lecturer.
The Inter-University Program for Latino Research is now accepting applications for the IUPLR/Mellon Fellowship Program (academic year 2016-17). The program supports ABD doctoral students in the humanities who are writing dissertations in Latina/o studies.