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CSRC Newsletter — Latina Futures 2050 Lab, Summer 2025

A Latina Futures installment of the CSRC Newsletter! Photo: (L-R) Elena Popp, Dolores Huerta, and Laura Esquivel celebrated with more than 250 guests at the opening reception for On the Side of Angels: Latina Lesbian Activism at the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), June 21, 2025. The exhibition was a collaboration between VPAM and the Latina Futures 2050 Lab, an initiative spearheaded by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. (CSRC)

Research with an Impact

Latina Futures 2050 Lab-funded projects are creating change far beyond California. Image: Bernardette Pinetta, assistant professor of psychology at UC Riverside, has been working with various partners focused on the well-being and leadership development of high school and college students. (Illustration courtesy of Bernardette Pinetta)

For Mexican American Millennials, Success Is Tied to Providing for Parents

A new, longitudinal study primarily focused on first-generation college graduates is led by Daisy Verduzco Reyes, a researcher for the CSRC's Latina Futures 2050 Lab and sociology professor at UC Merced. Photo: David Esquivel, UCLA

New Release! Science Fiction against the Margins

Science Fiction against the Margins: Cinematic Futures, Global Imaginaries is a compilation of fifteen essays by scholars and filmmakers that focus on B movies, television programs, independent productions, and experimental film, video, and media installations.

Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies

The Spring 2025 issue considers the systematic removal of Brown people of Indigenous people from the United States, gay heartbreak narratives, and the cultural importance of El Famoso's boxing robe. The Dossier explores the work of artists who challenge gendered constructs and expectations, and Nao Bustamante is the featured artist. Print and online subscriptions available!

Since its founding in 1969, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) has played a pivotal role in the development of scholarly research on the U.S. Chicano-Latino population. Our research mission is supported by five distinct components: a library with special collections archive, an academic press, collaborative research projects, public and academic programs, and community-based partnerships.

The CSRC is proud to be a part of the Institute of American Cultures. We actively collaborate with the Institute's three other ethnic studies research centers and other campus units. Groundbreaking projects include:

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