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June 3, 2019

A visit to the CSRC by UC Regent John Pérez, visiting scholar reports, a call for Aztlán journal submissions, and more in this month's newsletter!

(Image: Linda Vallejo, 30% of the US Population Will Be Latino in 2050, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.)

May 31, 2019

MoMA’s Magazine featured an article on Christina Fernandez’s installation María’s Great Expedition, which was recently acquired by the museum. CSRC director Chon A. Noriega is mentioned as facilitating an honorarium by the Mexican Museum that helped the artist produce the work.

May 29, 2019

UCLA Newsroom featured an article on “Collisions at the Crossroads,” the recently released book by Genevieve Carpio, UCLA professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies and CSRC Faculty Advisory Committee member. Carpio presented the book in the CSRC Library on May 30, which is mentioned in the article.   

May 21, 2019

The retrospective exhibition Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell was featured in an article by Chicago Reader. The exhibition originally opened in 2017 at the Vincent Price Art Museum in collaboration with the Chicano Studies Research Center, and is currently on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen.   

May 20, 2019

The Daily Bruin published a piece on roundtable discussion featuring the directors of UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. The discussion was held in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library and was part of UCLA’s Alumni Day celebration for the university’s centennial year.  

May 18, 2019

UCLA Newsroom published a piece on the Alumni Day events at UCLA, which included a roundtable discussion featuring the directors of UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. The discussion was held in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library.  

May 18, 2019

CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was quoted in a piece by the Los Angeles Times, discussing the need for UCLA to prepare for the changing demographics its student body. 

May 6, 2019

The Instagram account of CSRC donor Guadalupe Rosales was highlighted by the website Mitú. Rosales’ collection documents Southern California Chicano Life in the 1990s, and is housed at the Chicano Studies Research Center.

May 1, 2019

The Aztlán Anthology Series wins an Independent Publishers Book Award, a new blog entry on the CSRC Post, an upcoming roundtable with the directors of UCLA’s ethnic studies centers, updated finding aids, and more in this month’s newsletter!

[Image: Lalo Alcaraz’s Fuertes with the 2010 Census, front cover. From the David Damian Figueroa Papers, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Archives.]

May 1, 2019

Art Libraries Society of North America released a book review of Chicano and Chicana Art. A Critical Anthology, which was co-edited by CSRC director Chon A. Noriega, A VER boardmember Jennifer A. González, two-time CSRC visiting scholar C. Ondine Chavoya, and former CSRC Arts Projects Coordinator Terezita Romo.   

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