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August 26, 2013
The David J. Sencer CDC Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, will host the exhibition Health is a Human Right: Race and Place in America, September 28, 2013-January 17, 2014.
 
The exhibition examines some historic challenges of the past 120 years in achieving health equity for all in the U.S. People with low-incomes, minorities, and other socially disadvantaged populations face significant inequities in opportunity for optimal health.
August 26, 2013

Alvaro Huerta, CSRC visiting scholar in 2011-12, has published a book based on the research he conducted while at the CSRC.

August 16, 2013

Carlos M. Haro, CSRC assistant director emeritus and organizer of the annual CSRC Latina/o Education Summit, was profiled in Montebello Life Magazine for his role in the Montebello-Ashiya Sister Cities Association. Haro currently serves as president of the association, which was established in 1961 to facilitate monthlong residential exchanges between high school students in Montebello Hills and Ashiya, Japan.

August 13, 2013
The CSRC congratulates Cynthia Telles, civic leader, former vice president of the city's Ethics Commission, and current member of the CSRC Director's Advisory Board, on her new appointment by Mayor Eric Garcetti to the city's Airport Commission.
August 13, 2013

On July 30, 2013, the leaders of the Latinos & Economic Security Project presented recent research findings. The webinar includes a videorecording of the presenters as well as a PowerPoint.

August 9, 2013

A new poetry anthology from Arte Público Press includes the poem "Tarde sobria" by Alurista. The poem was originally published in the famed Chicano poet's groundbreaking book Floricanto en Aztlán, published by the CSRC Press in 1971 with a new edition in 2012.

August 7, 2013
This year’s summit will address the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Fisher v. Texas and its national implications for Chicanos and Latinos and higher education.
August 7, 2013
The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press announces the release of Richard Valverde, the first book-length study of the Chicano photographer and mixed-media artist best known for his documentation of East Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s that offered a powerful counter narrative to the city’s glamorous image.
July 24, 2013

Latinos and Economic Security (LES), a research unit at the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging, released an infographic today showing current findings in the U.S. naturalization rate of Latinos and Asians from the baby boomer generation. The CSRC has been a partner in LES for eight years.

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