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On October 19, Nancy Katano, Executive Director of Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations at UCLA, was a guest on the radio program "The Artist's Way with Mark Bryan." She cited the CSRC's A Ver: Revisioning Art History series as an example of a creative project that has succeeded due to innovative thinking and financial planning.
A review of artist Ramon Ramirez's solo exhibition City of Love, on view at Wallspace gallery in Los Angeles through October 27. The review mentions the Artist’s Communiqué in the Fall 2013 issue of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies that focused on Ramirez.
Vilma Ortiz and Edward Telles's book Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race was cited in a story about the "U-turn" of third generation children of immigrants, a generation that a recent study indicates is losing the economic gains of their parents.
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.