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The CSRC has two Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship opportunities available this summer. The internships run for ten weeks and offer a stipend of $3,500. The deadline to apply is Monday, April 28, 5 p.m.
A tribute to CSRC supporter Stanley Grinstein; a video of the "Cesar Chavez" panel discussion with Diego Luna, Pablo Cruz, and Arturo Rodríguez; April events with author Michael Nava and performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; and more!
Several years ago at a large conference in the Midwest, a rowdy crowd moved into a hotel bar after a fiery panel, during which pochismo had been discussed amongst Mexican and Chicano academics, musicologists, and indie filmmakers.
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director with the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, responded to questions concerning the new feature film "Cesar Chavez," which he viewed March 7 at an advance screening organized by the CSRC.
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega will give the keynote address at the Indiana University Latino Film Festival and Conference.
Max Benavidez, author of the A Ver volume "Gronk" and CSRC partner on the Latinos and Economic Security project, authored an Op-Ed on a new book that applies phenomenology theories to everyday life.
The CSRC advance screening on March 7 of the new film Cesar Chavez by Diego Luna is mentioned in this story about two new contributions to the preservation of the labor leader's legacy.
Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2014
Telemundo interviewed Diego Luna, director of "Cesar Chavez," at UCLA during the CSRC advance screening of the film March 7.
CSRC visiting scholar Alvaro Huerta authored an op-ed arguing against the current U.S. deportation policy toward undocumented immigrants.
"Asco and Friends: Exiled Portraits," an exhibition organized by the Le Cartel, Triangle France, and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, is the first major exhibition in France of works by the artist collective Asco. Excitement for the exhibition has led to the circulation of the press release on blogs and event sites covering the region.