News
New appointments, fond farewells, forthcoming publications, a visiting scholars report, and more in this month's newsletter. (Image: Students pack textiles from CSRC collections during a workshop now viewable on CSRC YouTube)
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega's 2009 Aztlán article was reprinted in Joe Ortiz's blog, It Seems to Me... The article discusses the portrayals of Mexicans in silent-era Hollywood Westerns and the equally problematic scholarship on race in the Western genre and its "greaser" subgenre.
The CSRC is looking for a part-time Communications and Academic Programs Assistant to provide clerical and research support to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, including assisting with event coordination, social media promotion, website maintenance, and record keeping.
The Daily Bruin announced the appointment of Laura Gómez as interim dean for the UCLA Division of Social Sciences.
ARTnews covered the announcement of Pilar Tompkins Rivas as the new director of the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College.
ARTFORUM covered the appointment of Pilar Tompkins Rivas as the new director of the Vincent Price Art Museum.
The Los Angeles Times covered the announcement of Pilar Tompkins Rivas as the new director of the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College.
CSRC faculty win awards for undergraduate teaching, CSRC researchers present at Latino Art Now!, thirty-fifth anniversary screening of Zoot Suit, IAC Spring Social, spring book sale, and more! (Image: Renee Hudson, center, doctoral candidate in English, introduces students to CSRC poster collections)
Álvaro Ochoa Serrano, professor of history at el Colegio de Michoacán and former CSRC visiting scholar, has published La música va a otra parte: Mariachi México-USA (El Colegio de Michoacán and El Colegio de Jalisco, 2015).