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CSRC Events
Documentary Screening
El Mexico mas Cercano a Japon/The Closest Mexico to Japan, a documentary film about the Japanese community of Tijuana, Mexico, will be shown on Thursday, May 8, 5:30–7:30 p.m., in the Presentation Room (room 11348) at the UCLA Charles Young Research Library. The film covers the history of this community before and after World War II, when Tijuana’s Japanese were forced to relocate to Mexico’s interior. The film includes images taken by José Genaro Kingo Nonaka, Tijuana’s first official photographer, between 1924 and 1942. The screening is co-sponsored by the CSRC; the Asian American Studies Center and Department; the George and Sakaye Aratani Endowed Chair on the Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community; the Charles Young Research Library; the Asian American Graduate Student Association; and the Nikkei Student Union. The event is free and open to the public, and no RSVP is necessary. Parking is available for $8.00 in Lot 5. More information about the film is available on the San Diego Union-Tribune’s website.
Women and East L.A. Punk
Colin Gunckel, CSRC arts project coordinator, will co-curate a multimedia exhibition at the Claremont Museum of Art. The exhibition, Vexing: Female Voices from East L.A. Punk, opens on Sunday, May 18, and runs through the end of August. It surveys the burgeoning punk rock scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s in East Los Angeles. A historical investigation of the women who were at the forefront of this movement, Vexing explores their lasting legacies and contemporary practices. The title of the exhibition is taken from The Vex, a club housed at Self Help Graphics and Art that became a home for Eastside bands. The documentary-style exhibition includes photo, video and audio archives, as well as studio work encompassing painting, installation, writings, and performances. The museum will host an opening reception on Saturday, May 17, with live performances by several artists featured in the exhibition. For more information visit the museum’s website.
Presentation by Laura Aguilar
In conjunction with UCLA Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s “Chicana Lesbian Literature” class, Chicana photographer Laura Aguilar will screen her video Untouched Landscape and discuss the use of body, memory, and landscape in her work. Her talk will be on Tuesday, May 20, 3:00–4:00 p.m., in the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall). The screening is co-sponsored by the CSRC, the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, the Department of Women’s Studies, and the Center for the Study of Women.
Latina/o Education Summit
The theme for the CSRC’s third education summit is “K-12 Education: What Can School Board Members and School Superintendents Do to Assure Student Success?” The summit brings together school board members and school superintendents from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the Montebello Unified School District (MUSD), which have the largest enrollments of Latino students in the country, and the Los Angeles County Office of Education, which provides services to the county’s eighty school districts. These policy makers will identify and explore factors at the primary and secondary levels that are critical if Latina/o students are to make successful transitions through the education pipeline. The summit will take place Friday, May 23, at the UCLA Faculty Center, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. To register please visit the education summit website. No registration fee is required.
Presentation of Generations of Exclusion
The CSRC is proud to host UCLA sociologists Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz, who will present and sign their new book, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race, at a reception on Thursday, May 29, 3:00–5:00 p.m., at the UCLA Faculty Center’s Hacienda Room. The much-anticipated Generations of Exclusion is the most comprehensive scholarly analysis yet on the economic, educational, linguistic, social, and political status of Mexican Americans. The groundbreaking study surveys four generations of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles and San Antonio. The authors’ extraordinary work was prompted by the discovery of boxes of original files at UCLA from a 1965 survey of Mexican Americans titled “The Mexican American Study Project.” Most of the respondents of the 1965 study were re-interviewed, as were their children, who are now adults. Generations of Exclusion is the first major survey to systematically examine changes in long-term intra- and inter-generational socioeconomic status and ethnic identity within any ethnic group. Parking is available for $8.00 in Lot 2, located just south of the Faculty Center. Visitors should enter the UCLA campus at Hilgard Ave. and Westholme Blvd. and proceed to the parking kiosk.
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