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The Daily Bruin profiled two students chosen to be first-year Andrew W. Mellon undergraduate curatorial fellows at LACMA. This year, both first-year LACMA fellows are UCLA students.
Publications by CSRC scholars, new metadata projects for CSRC digital collections, a new book on Chicana/o art, a book talk with Jesús Salvador Treviño, and an event discussing Chicano party crews in the 1990s! (Party crew image by East L.A. Madness, c. 1993)
In an interview discussing Latino representation in university art history departments in the United States, Adriana Zavala, associate professor of art history and director of the Latino Studies program at Tufts University, reflects on her article, “Latin@ Art at the Intersection,” which was published in the Spring 2015 issue of Aztlán journal.
The Los Angeles Times published an article on Oscar Castillo's expansive image collection of Chicano life and protests in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early 1970s which scholars see as both journalism and fine art.
Smithsonian archivist visits the CSRC, "Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!" screens at UCLA Film & TV Archive, CSRC Press holiday book sale, and more in this month's newsletter. (Image: Still from "Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!" directed by and starring Efraín Gutiérrez)
Miguel Juárez discusses organizing an exhibition featuring the works of Oscar R. Castillo as part of this year's Western History Association Conference.
In response to comments by presidential candidate Donald Trump, Esteban Torres, a former U.S. Congressman for California’s 34th District (Pico Rivera), spoke to the Los Angeles Times about Operation Wetback, a program that forced or compelled thousands of immigrants to leave the United States in the 1950s, calling it a misguided model for future deportation policy. UCLA history professor and former CSRC associate director Kelly Lytle Hernandez was also quoted in the story.
More than 800 social scientists from all parts of the U.S. recently submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court presenting evidence on the need to maintain colleges’ rights to consider race as one of many factors in selecting students.
An LA Weekly feature story discussed CSRC collections donor Guadalupe Esquivel Rosales and her work on her Instagram project, which utilizes crowdsourcing to identify ephemera pertaining to Chicano party scenes in the 1990s.
CSRC scholars in Cuba, November events, CSRC Librarian position open, fellowship opportunities, and more in this month's newsletter. (Photo: Maria Elena Ruiz at Enfermería 2015 in Havana)