CSRC Newsletter - Fall Quarter 2023
New UCLA faculty and postdoctoral scholars at the HSI Faculty Welcome on October 2, 2023.
Volume 22, Number 1
Director's Message
As a former community organizer, I understand the centrality of relationships for working together to achieve shared goals. To this end, the CSRC aims to serve as a central networking and support site for our scholarly community. Our gatherings, fellowships and grants, convenings, and co-sponsorships all seek to foster vital connections and strengthen relationships among our scholars and throughout the community.
The CSRC began this academic year by taking steps to diversify the faculty pipeline, facilitate rigorous research, and achieve public impact. In October, we hosted a welcome reception for thirteen new faculty and six new postdoctoral scholars. Most of these new hires were made possible by Chancellor Block’s HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution) Infrastructure Investments and the commitment of faculty volunteers who served on search and selection committees. As rising stars in their fields, these assistant professors and postdoctoral scholars will be critical in nurturing up-and-coming Latinx and other first-generation scholars. The CSRC serves as a hub for interdisciplinary scholarship and community-building for this scholarly network.
Organizers and speakers at the Inaugural Afro-Isthmus Symposium on November 2, 2023.
In November, CSRC cosponsored the Inaugural Afro-Isthmus Symposium, organized by Karina Alma, professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies. This groundbreaking event was dedicated to the knowledge, histories, and contemporary movements of the African diaspora in the Americas.
At the CSRC we are devoting significant time to working alongside the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute to advance the objectives of the Latina Futures, 2050 Lab (LFL). Through rigorous research, community engagement, and leadership programming, the LFL informs efforts to achieve equity and inclusion for Latinas and other similarly situated populations. As our research shows, among workers in the major racial/ethnic groups in California, Latinas are the lowest paid. At our Latina Pay Gap event, we collaborated with California first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, state assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes, and representatives from Equal Rights Advocates and Justice for Migrant Women to demonstrate the need to address this inequity. In addition to supporting research on the experiences of diverse Latinas, the LFL encourages people to learn about, and take inspiration from, our Latina leaders, including Gloria Molina and Carmen Ramirez, who were honored at the CSRC’s Día de Muertos event.
As part of the LFL, the CSRC Library has invested in processing and exhibiting women’s collections, including those featuring Latina Lesbian leaders such as activist Laura Esquivel and other longtime advocates of LGBTQ+, civil, and immigrant rights movements. Along with the efforts of a growing number of community partners across California, LFL’s work allows us to build relationships and networks that center the experiences of diverse Latina leaders.
Research and programming on California’s young population remain a priority at the CSRC. To this end, we have continued building relationships with community college partners, civic groups, and other stakeholders that are committed to young people’s well-being and success. Most recently, we launched the Thriving Youth Survey at the College of the Desert in the Coachella Valley, as well as in Santa Maria and Lompoc in the Central Coast region. In partnership with the Center for Labor and Community at UC Santa Cruz, we will soon launch a version of the survey in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Initiated in Oxnard, this survey was part of youth-led data collection efforts—on local policy priorities and youth education, employment, health, family care responsibilities, and civic engagement—undertaken in select regions across the state. This research aims to inform policy change, organizing, and voter education efforts. As we noted in our recent report California’s Young Latinx Voters and the 2022 Election, much work remains to be done to activate young voters in California.
As always, the CSRC Press and the CSRC Library rely on vital, long-standing relationships as well as exciting new partnerships to disseminate research and showcase artistic production. Thanks to funding from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the LFL, the library has expanded its staff, research, activities, and community programming. The library’s fall quarter exhibition, Be in the Moment: Portraits from L.A. Lowrider, Goth, and Punk Cultures, featured the photography of Erick Zerecero (Zer Ghoul), a PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology. A video of the opening reception is on CSRC’s YouTube channel. The exhibition closes December 8.
Zer Ghoul, Hop 6th Street Viaduct, January 19, 2023, Los Angeles.
Our CSRC community is growing, and I am appreciative of the efforts of recent additions to our staff. Dr. Celia Lacayo took on the role of assistant director, and Dr. Chantiri Abarca is the new senior officer of community-engaged research. Krystell Jimenez is the new LFL librarian, and Jocelyne Sanchez is the CSRC’s new project archivist. We also congratulate Dr. Rebecca Epstein, former CSRC assistant director, in her new role as senior manager of research communications, and Eder Gaona-Macedo, former CSRC officer of community-engaged research, on his new position as the executive director of the Fund for Santa Barbara. CSRC staff have played and continue to play a critical part in building relationships, hosting public programs, advancing initiatives, and supporting research with public impact.
As we come to the end of 2023, we appreciate the relationships that we have built with many of you, and we wish you all a wonderful holiday season.
Veronica Terriquez
Director and Professor
Opportunities
Inaugural CSRC Senior HSI STEM Faculty Director—Advanced Associate/Full Professor
The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center is excited to announce its search for the inaugural Senior HSI STEM Faculty Director. The search is for an advanced associate or full professor in any field in engineering, life sciences, or physical sciences. Aligned with the UCLA Chancellor’s Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiative, the Senior HSI STEM Faculty Director will implement and champion HSI STEM initiatives that promote undergraduate student, graduate student, and faculty success in wide-ranging STEM fields with a focus on Latina/o/x equity and inclusion. This search is conducted in partnership with the UCLA Division of Life Sciences, the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences, and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. For more information and to apply: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09034
Initial review date: January 15, 2024
Director, Latina Futures, 2050 Lab
The Latina Futures 2050 Lab (LFL) is an initiative funded by a $15,000,000 state award and administered in partnership between the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) and the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute (LPPI).The CSRC and LPPI seek a strategic and administrative leader to serve as Director of the Latina Futures 2050 Lab (LFL Director). Under the supervision of the CSRC Director, the LFL Director is responsible for a broad range of supervisorial, initiative design, and implementation of programmatic activities to ensure that the Lab meets its intended impact and project goals. This a contract position. Apply to Requisition #40407 on the UCLA Careers site.
Senior Development Officer (Hybrid position), Latina Futures, 2050 Lab
Under the supervision of the Chicano Studies Research Center Director (CSRC), the Senior Development Officer is responsible for a broad range of fundraising duties for the UCLA Latina Futures, 2050 Lab (LFL) in compliance with the University, extramural funding agencies policies and procedures for financial management. The Senior Development Officer is directly responsible for securing external resources from foundation and government sources, and cultivating private foundations and individual donors. Potential sources include state funds, gifts and endowments, sales and service accounts and contract and grants with a goal towards establishing LFL's long-term future at UCLA. This is a contract position. Apply to Requisition #40406 on the UCLA Careers site.
Finance Manager, Latina Futures, 2050 Lab
Under the supervision of the UCLA Latina Futures Lab 2050 (LFL) Director, The Finance Manager is directly responsible for the financial administration of an annual operating budget of approximately $5,000,000.00 from a state appropriation source. The Finance Manager ensures that the Lab remains in compliance with University, extramural funding agencies policies and procedures for financial management. The Finance Manager is directly responsible for the financial administration of multi-million-dollar budgets of highly complex funds administered through LFL. These funds include state funds, gifts and endowments, sales and service accounts and contract and grants. This is a contract position. Apply to Requisition #40405 on the UCLA Careers site.
Manager of Operations, Latina Futures, 2050 Lab
Under the Direction of the LFL Director and in communication with the LFL Fund Manager, the LFL Research and Project Manager will be the chief administrator of LFL community engaged research programming across the state of California. The Latina Futures Lab (LFL) Research and Operations Manager will take primary responsibility for developing and implementing administrative processes that streamline large-scale statewide community engaged- research operations, in accordance with UC policies and procedures. This is a contract position. Apply to Requisition #40415 on the UCLA Careers site.
IAC Graduate/Predoctoral Fellowships
The UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) is pleased to offer graduate/predoctoral fellowships for 2024-25. Applications are encouraged for projects that advance understanding of new social and cultural realities driven by the dramatic population shifts of recent decades, including greater heterogeneity within ethnic groups and increased interethnic contact. Fellowships are for currently enrolled UCLA graduate students and predoctoral candidates with demonstrated interest in ethnic studies to aid in the completion of a thesis or dissertation. Terms of awarded fellowships may range from 1 to 3 quarters and will cover in-state tuition and fees plus a stipend of $6,000–$7,400 per quarter. The acceptance of a fellowship includes a commitment to contributing to the activities of the sponsoring Ethnic Studies Research Center. The CSRC is pleased to offer this fellowship for the upcoming year. For more information and to view the application, visit the IAC website.
An information session will be held Monday, January 8, 12:00-1:30 p.m. in the Black Forum, 153 Haines Hall (see Events, below)
Application deadline: January 18, 2024
IAC Research Grants
The UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) invites applications from UCLA faculty, lecturers SOE, staff, and graduate students for support of research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os. The IAC also invites proposals on interethnic relations that will increase collaboration between the Centers and/or between the Centers and other campus units. The grant period is July 1, 2024-May 31, 2025. For more information and to view the application, visit the IAC website.
An information session is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, February 13, 2:00-3:30 p.m., in the Black Forum, 153 Haines Hall.
Application deadline: March 1, 2024
Events
Screenings: “Raphael Montañez Ortiz: Chopping Up the Classics”
December 8 at 7:30 p.m.; December 10 at 7:00 p.m.
Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s film, music, and video art represent a missing link in the history of experimental media in the post-WWII era, which helped redefine the idea of modern art after abstract expressionism. Born in 1934, Ortiz is a key figure of the international “Destruction in Art” movement in the 1960s, U.S.-based guerrilla theater, and Latino art (including as founder of El Museo del Barrio), and his object-based work is in the permanent collections of major U.S. and European art museums. Ortiz’s turn to destruction in art started in the late 1950s with his use of ritual and shamanic approaches to the destruction of 16mm films that were sold for home viewing. Ortiz extended his work from ritual destruction to performance-based editing in the 1980s and 1990s through what he called “scratch videos.” His extensive media collection—archived at UCLA—includes footage documenting the emergence of performance, installation art, and experimental music in New York City. This two-night program surveys the full scope of his media art since the late 1950s. For information about each night’s screenings, visit the UCLA Film and Television Archive website.
Series curated and notes written by Chon Noriega, Distinguished Professor, UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. Organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in partnership with the CSRC.
Information Session: IAC Graduate and Predoctoral Fellowship Program
January 8, 12-1:30 p.m.
Black Forum, 153 Haines Hall
The UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) is offering a limited number of graduate/predoctoral fellowships for 2024-25. Fellowships are awarded to current UCLA graduate students and predoctoral candidates with demonstrated interest in ethnic studies to aid in the completion of a thesis or dissertation. Terms of awarded fellowships may range from 1 to 3 quarters and will cover in-state tuition and fees plus a stipend of $6,000–$7,400 per quarter. This information session for interested applicants will be conducted by representatives of each of the four IAC ethnic studies research centers. Topics will include eligibility and application requirements. RSVP at https://bit.ly/3sOW1ho
Symposium: Latina Futures: Transforming the Nation through Law and Policy
January 20–21
Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095
To purchase tickets: latinaleyucla.com
Latina Futures: Transforming the Nation through Law and Policy will feature prominent Latina scholars, attorneys, policy leaders, and law students from across the country. The symposium aims to foster a multigenerational group of leaders who can address today's legal challenges and opportunities from a Latina perspective. Participants will weave together oral history, legal research, and the practice of law as they explore how the influence of Latina lawyers can be increased and the ways in which Latina leadership in law and policy can help achieve economic, social, and political parity for all Americans. For the program and list of speakers, visit latinaleyucla.com.
Organized by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute in partnership with the UCLA Chicanx Latinx Law Review, Latina Lawyers Bar Association, and the CSRC.
News
CSRC welcomes Celia Lacayo, CSRC Assistant Director
On July 1, CSRC welcomed Celia Lacayo, PhD, as its new assistant director. Prior to joining the CSRC, Lacayo served as associate director of community engagement for the UCLA Division of Social Sciences, where she was associate editor of LA Social Science, the e-forum of the College of Social Sciences. Lacayo was formerly adjunct faculty in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and the Department of African American Studies. In her administrative capacity at the CSRC, Lacayo will oversee staff operations and academic and public programs and contribute to the campus-wide Latinx Infrastructure Initiative as UCLA pursues federal designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). She will also oversee the administration of commissioned studies supported by the state-funded research project Latina Futures, 2050 Lab, a collaborative initiative between the CSRC and Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI). Read the CSRC announcement here.
CSRC welcomes Chantiri Abarca, Senior Officer of Community-Engaged Research
In November, CSRC welcomed Chantiri Abarca, PhD, as its new senior officer of community-engaged research. In this role, Abarca will strengthen and expand CSRC’s community partnerships and youth participatory-action research projects, including the statewide Thriving Youth Survey. She will also codesign and implement youth participatory-action research partnerships that will be focused on improving the social determinants of health within low-income communities of color and building the civic power of California’s youth. Abarca earned her PhD in Chicana/o and Central American studies from UCLA and her BA in development studies from UC Berkeley. Read the CSRC announcement here.
Site dedicated to CSRC community-engaged research projects launches
A website dedicated to CSRC’s current community-engaged, participatory-action research projects—California Freedom Summer and Thriving Youth Survey—is now live. The site features participant videos, including testimonials from project researchers. Many of these young scholars are undergraduates who through their research are learning how to engage and inspire youth activism in their communities. Visit the website here.
Inaugural Afro-Isthmus Symposium welcomes scholars
On November 2, the CSRC partnered with the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and the Latin American Studies Program to host the Inaugural Afro-Isthmus Symposium at UCLA. The event brought together scholars whose research focuses on people of African descent in Mexico and Central America and on the Afro-Latinx experience in the United States. Speakers included Salvadorans Marielba Herrera, an anthropologist, and Heriberto Erquicia, an archeologist and historian, and scholars from UCLA. Members of the UCLA Afro-Latinx Connection student organization shared personal stories about their experiences identifying as Afro-Latinx.
Terriquez participates in panel on California’s young workers
On November 9, CSRC director Veronica Terriquez was among the panelists for the online webinar “California's Future Is Clocked In: The Experiences of Young Workers.” The event was organized by the UCLA Labor Center, which reported findings of a recent study on California’s youth labor market. Over 100 people attended the event, which included discussions with researchers, educators, policy makers, labor leaders, and young workers. A video recording of the event is available on the CSRC’s YouTube Channel.
Terriquez moderates film panel
On September 24, CSRC cosponsored a screening of UNIDAD: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos, a documentary film about the Los Angeles organization Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU). The screening took place at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles and featured a panel discussion moderated by CSRC director Veronica Terriquez.
Torres wins National Book Award
The CSRC congratulates Justin Torres, UCLA professor of English and CSRC Faculty Advisory Committee member, on receiving the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Blackouts. Read the UCLA Newsroom story here.
Moreno elected to National Academy of Medicine
The CSRC congratulates Gerardo Moreno, chair of the UCLA Department of Family Medicine and professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, on his election to the National Academy of Medicine. Moreno is also a member of the CSRC Faculty Advisory Committee. Read the UCLA Newsroom story here.
Narro wins MALDEF Award
The CSRC congratulates Victor Narro, professor of law and core faculty in the UCLA Labor Studies program, on earning the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) 2023 Excellence in Community Service Award. Narro is a partner to CSRC in its work with the UCLA Labor Center. Read the UCLA Law story here.
Cruz Amaya gives lecture at Laguna Art Museum
On October 7, Kevin Cruz Amaya, doctoral student in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, Aztlán book review editor, and CSRC IUPLR dissertation fellow, gave a talk at the Laguna Art Museum on Self Help Graphics & Art, its cultural impact, and printmaking as an art form. The lecture was presented in conjunction with the exhibition Marking an Era: Celebrating Self Help Graphics & Art at 50, on view through January 15, 2024. The CSRC Library holds the Self Help Graphics and Art Research Collection; CSRC Press is the publisher of Self Help Graphics & Art: Art in the Heart of East Los Angeles, distributed by University of Washington Press.
Cindy Montañez, presente!
The CSRC mourns the passing of Cindy Montañez, dedicated public servant, environmental activist, and lifelong advocate for the Latinx community. As a UCLA student in 1993, Montañez, alongside her sister Norma, took part in the historic hunger strike that helped persuade the university to establish the César E. Chávez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies, a forerunner to the present César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies. At age twenty-five, Montañez became the youngest member elected to the San Fernando City Council and, at age twenty-eight, the youngest woman elected to the California State Assembly. She then served as assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and a board member of the UCLA Institute on the Environment and Sustainability. Montañez passed on October 21 at the age of forty-nine. A tribute by José M. Aguilar-Hernández, associate professor of ethnic and women’s studies in the College of Education and Integrative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, will appear in the Spring 2024 issue of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Cindy Montañez, presente!
Antonio Bernal, presente!
The CSRC mourns the passing of artist and activist Forrest Antonio Bernal Hopping (Antonio Bernal), widely credited by art historians as “the first Chicano muralist.” In Bernal's final years he donated a portion of his papers to the CSRC Library. He also worked with CSRC Press on the publication of The Artist as Eyewitness: Antonio Bernal Papers, 1884–2019, an award-winning anthology edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black and published in 2021. Bernal passed September 1 at the age of eighty-six. An obituary is available in PDF format on the CSRC website. Antonio Bernal, presente!
Institute of American Cultures releases annual report for 2022-23
The Institute of American Cultures (IAC), which houses UCLA’s four ethnic studies research centers—the Asian American Studies Center, the American Indian Studies Center, the Bunche Center for African American Studies, and the Chicano Studies Research Center—has released its annual report for the 2022-23 academic year. Achievements by each of the four centers are highlighted. A copy is available in PDF format on the CSRC website.
Library
CSRC welcomes Krystell Jimenez, Latina Futures Librarian and Archivist
In October, the CSRC welcomed Krystell Jimenez as librarian and archivist for the Latina Futures, 2050 Lab. In this new position Jimenez will be processing, describing, and managing the CSRC's Mujeres and LGBTQ+ collections. Her work will focus on collections pertaining to women, femmes, and feminine-presenting persons in the Chicanx, Central American, and U.S. Latina/o/x communities. Jimenez is an alum of UCLA, where she received an MLIS, and UC Berkeley, where she earned a BA in Middle Eastern studies. Read the CSRC announcement here.
CSRC welcomes Jocelyne Sanchez, Project Archivist
The CSRC is pleased to welcome Jocelyne Sanchez as its new project archivist. Sanchez will process collections for “Religion, Spirituality, and Faith in Mexican American Social History, 1940-Present,” a project funded through a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Sanchez previously worked for the Latina Futures, 2050 Lab as a graduate student researcher for archival projects, and she cocurated the library exhibition Latina Lesbian Lineage and supported the archival exhibition Community, Love, and Joy: 2 Years of East LA's Queer Mercado this past summer. Sanchez earned her MLIS from UCLA.
CSRC Library hosts master’s student through pre-doctoral program
This past summer, the CSRC Library partnered with the UCLA-CSU Pre-Doctoral Scholarship Program to host Monique Garcia, a graduate student of history at CSU Fullerton. Garcia spent eight weeks conducting research on the Chicana health movement in the CSRC archive. As part of her master’s thesis, Garcia produced “Sana Sana Colita de Rana/Heal, Heal Little Frog’s Tale: The Chicana Health Movement,” a digital presentation of her findings.
New on CSRC Post: Laura Esquival: A Latina Lesbian Activist's Archival Story
In the latest addition to CSRC Post, Vanessa Esperanza Quintero, UCLA library and information science graduate student and CSRC Latina Futures graduate fellow, writes about her discoveries while working with the Laura Esquival Papers at the CSRC. The collection is being processed as part of the Latina Futures, 2050 Lab, a multifaceted research project investigating Latinas’ experiences in the labor market, their participation in civic leadership, and their well-being. The project also calls attention to the underdocumented roles that activists like Esquival, a Latina lesbian, played in the nation’s early racial and gender justice movements. In her piece, Quintero explores Esquival's work with nonprofit organizations that have served the Latina/o and LGBTQ+ communities from the 1980s to the present day. Read the story on the CSRC Post.
CSRC Library hosts class on Latina leaders
On November 1, the CSRC Library hosted students from CCAS M144, Maylei Blackwell’s class on the women’s movement in Latin America. Forty-five students came to pay their respects to their ancestors by bringing ofrendas to the altares in the library and talking about lost loved ones in the tradition of Día de Muertos. The visit was related to the CSRC’s Día de Muertos event the day before, which honored the late Gloria Molina and Carmen Ramirez, two celebrated California public servants and Latina leaders.
Collection addition received
The CSRC Library has received ten additional linear feet of materials from Homeboy Industries to add to the Homeboy Industries Records. The additional materials include photographs, posters, awards, artwork, and administrative files.
Exhibitions on view with CSRC loans
The following exhibitions currently on view include images and artworks from CSRC collections and publications:
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California, through January 7, 2024
Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, through March 2, 2024
Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York, through March 31, 2024
PRESS
New release: Writings of cultural critic Gabriel Navarro
Gabriel Navarro (1894–1950) was a keen observer of Hispanic culture in the 1920s and 1930s. His columns and reviews in Spanish-language newspapers published in the Southwest covered a range of topics, from the lives of Hollywood’s well-known Mexican actors to the plight of Mexican extras and the formation of amateur film clubs. ”There Are No Hispanic Stars!” Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 1921–1939 brings together the first English translations of Navarro’s three novellas and thirty-four articles that represent his extensive body of film and cultural criticism. The comprehensive introduction by the book’s editors, Colin Gunckle and Laura Isabel Serna, situates Navarro’s writing within the context of Mexican-oriented journalism and cultural politics of the era.“There Are No Hispanic Stars!” can be ordered from University of Washington Press, the distributor for this new CSRC Press title.
UC Press to copublish Aztlán
The CSRC is pleased to announce that starting in January 2024, University of California Press (UC Press) will be a copublisher with CSRC Press of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. CSRC Press will continue to oversee editorial content, production, and design of the journal while UC Press will oversee printing and manage subscriptions and distribution. The journal will continue to be available in print and online formats. IngentaConnect, the current online distributor of the journal, will no longer offer journal content as of December 31, 2023. Since its founding in 1970, Aztlán has been published exclusively by CSRC Press. We welcome this new partnership and the greater visibility and access to the journal it will provide. For more information, visit the UC Press website.
Fall issue of Aztlán available online and in print
Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez is the subject of Charlene Villaseñor Black’s commentary for the fall issue. Essays consider the life and suicide of film star Lupe Vélez; Roman Catholic concepts in Gloria Anzaldúa’s writing; the use of testimonio in Chicana/o studies courses; and the rhetoric employed by José Vasconcelos to exclude the Chinese from his racial project. The Dossier section, "Global Latinidades: Toward a Supra-Latinx Studies," curated by Roberto Macias Jr., Cecilia M. Rivas, and B. V. Olguín, is the second part of a two-part Dossier that assesses the global nature of latinidades. The Artist’s Communique presents the work of Los Angeles–based artist Ramses Noriega.
Individual articles of Aztlán may be purchased as PDF downloads from IngentaConnect until December 31, 2023. To purchase a print issue, contact CSRC Press at support@chicano.ucla.edu. Beginning on January 1, 2024, Aztlán will be distributed online and in print by University of California Press (see above).
New CSRC report now available
California's Young Latinx Voters and the 2022 Midterm Election, by Veronica Terriquez and Steven Carmona Mora, was released in September. The brief focuses on the turnout of Latinx young adult voters, specifically those aged eighteen to thirty-four, in California’s 2022 midterm election. A PDF of the report is available on the CSRC website.
Three CSRC Press books to be reprinted
Three CSRC Press publications are slated to be reprinted this month: the best-selling anthologies The Chicano Studies Reader (2020, fourth edition) and Knowledge for Justice: An Ethnic Studies Reader (2020) and the award-winning exhibition catalog Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell (2017). All three will be available for purchase from University of Washington Press, which is the distributor for most CSRC Press books.
Christina Fernandez wins awards
The exhibition catalog Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures earned two medals in the 2023 International Latino Book Awards competition. Winners were announced October 21. A copublication of CSRC Press and UCR Arts, the book was awarded a silver medal for Best Arts Book and a bronze medal for Best Cover Illustration or Photo. The catalog is available for purchase from University of Washington Press, a distributor of CSRC Press publications.
CSRC in the News
UCLA Newsroom, October 22, 2023
Santa Barbara Independent, October 20, 2023
UCLA Newsroom, October 12, 2023
USC Dornsife College, October 5, 2023
ABC7 Eyewitness News, October 5, 2023
UCLA Newsroom, September 20, 2023
San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol, September 13, 2023
KEYT-TV, September 9, 2023
Santa Barbara Independent, September 8, 2023
Ed Source, August 30, 2023
UCLA Newsroom, August 29, 2023
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The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.