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A birthday tribute to Dolores Huerta, CSRC wins NEH grant, Sal Castro's legacy, Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship opportunity, film screenings, and more! (Image: Armando Durón, Dolores Huerta, and Barbara Carrasco at the MALDEF Awards, 2014)
CSRC Faculty Associate Leobardo Estrada, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, was featured in a story in UCLA Magazine focusing on the campus experiences and reflections of longtime UCLA professors.
UCLA Newsroom posted a feature story on the Faculty Bulletin Board announcing the CSRC's receipt of an NEH grant for a 3-year archival project focusing on Mexican Americans in Los Angeles in the 1960s-70s.
UCLA Newsroom, March 25, 2015
The Los Angeles Times announced this year's NEH grant winners, including the CSRC, which received the largest grant of all Southern California institutions that were awarded.
Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2015
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $200,000 grant to the CSRC to support the three-year archival project “Providing Access to Mexican American Social History in Los Angeles, 1960s and 1970s.” (Photo by Pedro Arias, 1971)
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was interviewed for a story about Los Tigres del Norte, the San Jose, Calif.–based norteño group, and the cultural significance of one of their new songs, “Era Diferente,” about a lesbian teenager who falls in love with her best friend.
The Advocate, March 21, 2015
In celebration of Flaco Jimenez's 76th birthday, National Public Radio journalist Felix Contreras interviewed Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records and the Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings (online at UCLA), on the German influence on Mexican and Mexican American music.
In the wake of a widely reported incident of racist behavior at a University of Oklahoma fraternity, Dr. Belinda Tucker, Vice Provost of the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, was interviewed on the Southern California Public Radio program "Take Two" on the topic of combating racism and intolerance on college campuses. The story can be heard here.
CSRC associate director Alex Ortega, Professor of Health Policy and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, was named "Source of the Week" by National Public Radio.
NPR, March 9, 2015
Spotlight on archival research, new appointments and dissertation fellows, new publications by CSRC alumni, UCLA research grants, and more!