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March 21, 2015

CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was interviewed for a story about Los Tigres del Norte, the San Jose, Calif.–based norteño group, and the cultural significance of one of their new songs, “Era Diferente,” about a lesbian teenager who falls in love with her best friend.

The Advocate, March 21, 2015

March 11, 2015

In celebration of Flaco Jimenez's 76th birthday, National Public Radio journalist Felix Contreras interviewed Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records and the Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings (online at UCLA), on the German influence on Mexican and Mexican American music.

March 11, 2015

In the wake of a widely reported incident of racist behavior at a University of Oklahoma fraternity, Dr. Belinda Tucker, Vice Provost of the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, was interviewed on the Southern California Public Radio program "Take Two" on the topic of combating racism and intolerance on college campuses.  The story can be heard here.

March 9, 2015

CSRC associate director Alex Ortega, Professor of Health Policy and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, was named "Source of the Week" by National Public Radio.

NPR, March 9, 2015

March 2, 2015

Spotlight on archival research, new appointments and dissertation fellows, new publications by CSRC alumni, UCLA research grants, and more!

March 1, 2015

In her editorial on viewing race in contemporary art, author Nikki Darling cites the CSRC exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement.

February 27, 2015

Maria Elena Ruiz, former CSRC associate director, co-authored the article "Older Latinos: Applying the Ethnocultural Gerontological Nursing Model" in the Journal of Transcultural Nursing. The article was published online on February 3 but is not yet available in print. Ruiz is an assistant adjunct professor in the UCLA School of Nursing, a former CSRC associate director, and CSRC faculty affiliate.

February 2, 2015

CSRC scholars in the news, 2014 Latina/o Education Summit videos on CSRC YouTube, a conference on Nauatl dialects spoken today, book talks, and more!  (Image: CSRC Visiting Scholar Ernesto Chávez. Photo by Christopher A. Velasco, 2014.)

January 29, 2015

A program developed by Maria Elena Ruiz, assistant adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Nursing and former CSRC associate director, was the focus of a January 29 article in UC Health.

January 29, 2015

NBC Latino reported on the induction of Please, Don't Bury Me Alive! into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. CSRC director and film and television professor Chon A. Noriega and filmmaker Efraín Gutiérrez were interviewed for the story.

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