News
July 5, 2013
A review of the Orange County Museum of Art 2013 California-Pacific Triennial speaks favorably of artifacts from the Robert Legorreta Collection.
July 2, 2013
The CSRC and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) have announced a nationwide search for a National Fellowship Coordinator of the Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program.
June 30, 2013
The CSRC has lent items from 'The Fire of Life: The Robert Legorreta - Cyclona Collection, 1962-2002' to this year's exhibition devoted to art from the Pacific Rim.
June 28, 2013
The Ethnomusicology Review discussed the Strachwitz Frontera Collection on its "Sounding Board" blog.
June 28, 2013
Thousands of recordings tossed by Colorado's first Spanish-language radio station have been donated to the Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings.
June 24, 2013
"Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race" by sociologists Vilma Ortiz and Edward Telles was cited in an editorial in The American Thinker arguing against amnesty for illegal immigrants.
June 13, 2013
"Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race," a book that resulted from research conducted at the CSRC by professors of sociology Vilma Ortiz and Edward Telles, was cited in a New York Times editorial concerning issues surrounding the current immigration bill under Congressional consideration.
June 13, 2013
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was quoted on CNN in a story concerning the uproar that ensued after an 11-year-old Mexican American sang the national anthem before Game 3 of the NBA finals in San Antonio, Texas.
June 11, 2013
Chon A. Noriega, CSRC director, and Tracy B. Grimm from the Purdue Libraries, Purdue University, co-authored the article "Documenting Regional Latino Arts and Culture: Case Studies for a Collaborative, Community-Oriented Approach" published in the Spring-Summer 2013 issue American Archivist (vol. 76, no.1).
June 11, 2013
In advance of its June 12 screening of Efraín Gutiérrez's "Chicano Love Is Forever," the Northwest Chicago Film Society interviewed CSRC director Chon A. Noriega about the Chicano director, the film, and the film's restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.