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June 9, 2025
As the Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC), a sociologist, and daughter of formerly undocumented immigrants, I believe it is critical to stand in solidarity with immigrant communities — especially during times of heightened enforcement. Research demonstrates that deportations and detentions cause lasting harm, tearing families apart, disrupting livelihoods, and spreading fear across entire communities.
June 5, 2025

Presented by Latina Futures 2050 Lab at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, the new installation captures social justice movements from the 1980s to the late 2000s. The exhibition runs June 21- August 30, 2025.  [Photo credit: Lesbians of Color Conference, 1980. From the Yolanda Retter Papers. UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.]

May 29, 2025

Wage gaps, education access, and other findings highlighted in new reports produced by UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Latina Futures 2050 Lab, UCLA Labor Center and Cal State Channel Islands

May 28, 2025

On May 28, two publications from CSRC Press were announced as winners of 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs). Amalia Mesa-Bains, by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, won a gold medal for Biography, and “There Are No Hispanic Stars!”, edited and translated by Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna, earned a bronze for Popular Culture.

May 19, 2025

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) is seeking individual or coeditor applications for the editorship of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. We encourage application submissions by July 1, 2025.

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