News
February 1, 2004
This month the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) unveils two major projects in the arts: the Strachwitz Frontera Collection website and a Latino arts preservation initiative.
January 1, 2004
Happy New Year! This month the center gets underway with its second faculty search, hosts a meeting of Latino faculty and administrators from across the University of California system, and gets ready to launch its Frontera Collection web site with over 15,000 Spanish-language recordings from the first half of the twentieth century.
December 1, 2003
I recently ventured into the UCLA Archives and came across a document written by the first administrative coordinator of the Chicano Studies Center in December 1969.
November 5, 2003
Mentions Chicano Studies Research Center's 2003 conference "The Maquiladora Murders, or Who Is Killing the Women of Juarez?"
Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2003
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November 1, 2003
Recently I was showing our library to a new faculty member. When she mentioned the need to digitize some audiotape interviews, a student interjected that he provided such a service, for a fee, since it was one of the ways he made a living.
October 1, 2003
We must be doing something right.... Our latest policy briefs have generated an unusual amount of racist hate mail. I cannot repeat much of what has been sent to the CSRC, although the phrase "you little brown Nazi pigs" certainly says it all, if not more.
August 19, 2003
Article mentions Chicano Studies Research Center's Latino Policy and Issues Brief.
Business Journal, August 19, 2003
August 1, 2003
Welcome back! With this issue, we begin the second volume of our monthly newsletter. Needless to say, much has happened in California since our last issue: unprecedented and devastating budget cuts for education and other social services, the failure to resolve the fiscal crisis facing the state (meaning potentially more budget cuts next year), the start of a gubernatorial recall election, and the scheduling of the Racial Privacy Initiative for the Fall ballot.
June 1, 2003
As we reach the end of the academic year and my first year as director, I want to take the opportunity to thank the many people who have contributed to our programs and our mission.
May 1, 2003
The headline in the Los Angeles Times said it all: "Minority Admissions Rise in UC System but Fall at UCLA."