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September 12, 2013
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections has awarded "The Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings" Best Discography in the category Best Research in Folk, World or Ethnic Music.
September 10, 2013
Apuntes: A Latino Journal  is a new, free digital journal that "promotes unity and celebrates diversity among Latinos." The site, which recently launched, includes two essays by CSRC director Chon A.
September 9, 2013
CSRC associate director Alex Ortega was quoted in a story about the U.S. Census Bureau's latest findings regarding "Hispanic" college enrollment.
September 4, 2013
In his latest piece for The Huffington Post, CSRC director Chon A. Noriega discusses the recent death of the woman who inspired Jack Kerouac's character "Terry, the Mexican Girl" in "On the Road" and the monoculturalism of the famous Beat novel.
September 3, 2013

"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)

September 1, 2013
Chon A. Noriega, CSRC director, and Francisco Javier Iribarren, CSRC assistant director, co-authored the journal article “Toward an Empirical Analysis of Hate Speech in Commercial Talk Radio,” featuring findings from the CSRC Hate Speech in the Media project.
 
Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, Volume 25, 2012-2013
 
August 28, 2013

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

August 26, 2013
The David J. Sencer CDC Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, will host the exhibition Health is a Human Right: Race and Place in America, September 28, 2013-January 17, 2014.
 
The exhibition examines some historic challenges of the past 120 years in achieving health equity for all in the U.S. People with low-incomes, minorities, and other socially disadvantaged populations face significant inequities in opportunity for optimal health.
August 26, 2013

Alvaro Huerta, CSRC visiting scholar in 2011-12, has published a book based on the research he conducted while at the CSRC.

August 16, 2013

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.

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