News
CSRC associate director Alex Ortega was interviewed by the radio station KCUR 89.3 FM, based in Kansas City, Missouri, for a story on efforts to improve the quality of food sold in grocery stores in predominantly Latino neighborhoods in the area. Ortega is the co-leader of the Corner Store Makeover Project directed by the UCLA Center for Population Health and Health Disparities.
The Getty’s online magazine featured a profile of photographer Luis Garza and the La Raza Newspaper and Magazine Records, now being digitized by the CSRC.
New edited collection of essays by Shifra Goldman, No Más Bebés to premiere at Los Angeles Film Festival, a visit from Maya Chinchilla, organizing Latino immigrants in the informal economy, IAC 45th anniversary celebration, and more.
An editorial inspired by the CSRC screening of the documentary Rebel on April 2, 2015.
A profile of Charlene Villaseñor Black, professor of art history, chair of the CSRC Faculty Advisory Committee, and faculty-in-residence for the Chican@/Latin@ Studies theme community in Sproul Hall.
Following the announcement of Francisco’s retirement, the Los Angeles Times reran an article that quotes CSRC director Chon A. Noriega.
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega as well as L.A. Xicano co-curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Phantom Sightings co-curator Rita Gonzalez are mentioned in this op-ed on the transformative power of art in public spaces.
This paid summer internship at the CSRC is structured around current and ongoing CSRC projects in the arts. Aside from contributing to the CSRC’s mission to provide information resources on Chicano history and culture, the intern will gain career-relevant archival experience.
The CSRC and National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) study and resulting working paper Social Networks for Hate Speech: Commercial Talk Radio and New Media (July 2012) are cited in this opinion piece.
A preview of an event to be held at the CSRC on April 29, 2015.