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Principal Investigator: Carlos Manuel Haro, Ph.D. (CSRC)
Contributing Faculty: Daniel Solorzano, UCLA, Education; Mario Garcia, UCSB, History.
Undergraduate Research Assistants and Affiliated Students: Crystal Perez, senior; Nancy Guarneros, senior; Melissa Vazquez, junior; Ebelin Castillo, senior; Melissa Francisca Flores, junior; Thien Ninh Huong, senior.
Contributing Graduate Students: Lindsay Perez Huber, Ph.D. candidate, Education; Maria C. Malagon, Ph.D. candidate, Education; Nadine Bermudez, Ph.D. candidate, Education; Martha A. Rivas, Ph.D. candidate, Education; Marisol A. Haro-Chianello, USC Law Student; Peggy Fan, doctoral student, Education; Erica Bennett, MA student, Information Studies.
Description: This ongoing research activity assesses Chicano education from the 1930s to the present, with a focus on California. Research sources include archival collections in UCLA libraries (including the CSRC Library and Archive), monographs, academic journals, newspapers, and internet publications. The project has three major sections: 1) an analysis of Chicano students, including immigrants, in the education pipeline from K-12 through graduate education; 2) an analysis of selected court cases, primarily those dealing with the school segregation of Chicano students (Mendez, 1946, and Crawford, 1980) and their access to higher education (Bakke, 1978, and Grutter, 2003); and 3) a history of the Chicano student movement, including student activism at the college level from 1966 to 1977 and the 1968 high school walkouts. The CSRC’s annual Latina/o Education Summit, a conference series coordinated by Carlos Manuel Haro and held on the UCLA campus each spring, explores issues that are critical for improving educational experiences and opportunities for Chicano students. The summits have dealt with critical transitions in the education pipeline (2006), community college education (2007), school governance (2008), and the education of immigrant and undocumented students (2009). Four CSRC Research Reports and four CSRC Latino Policy and Issues Briefs, prepared by Professor Daniel Solorzano and graduate students and published by CSRC Press, have been released in conjunction with the summit series. A research article, “Mendez v. Westminster School District: Paving the Path for School Desegregation,” by Carlos Manuel Haro, Marisol Haro-Chianello, and Nadine Bermudez, was published in the program for the symposium on the Mendez case, held May 21, 2004, at UCLA. An unpublished article, “The Grutter Decision: The Question of Chicano Access to Higher Education in California,” by Carlos Manuel Haro and Marisol A. Haro-Chianello, has also resulted from the ongoing research. A report dealing with the Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots was prepared for a spring 2005 conference to commemorate the successful appeal in 1944 of the Sleepy Lagoon convictions. A research article on the Chicano high school walkouts of 1968, by Professor Mario Garcia, UCSB, was contributed for the 2006 CSRC conference “Sal Castro and the Chicano Youth Leadership Conference: The Development of Chicano Leadership Since 1963,” which was coordinated by Carlos Manuel Haro. |
