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Watch Now: Latina Futures Symposium Highlight Reel

Now available on the CSRC's YouTube channel is the Latina Futures: Transforming the Nation through Law and Policy highlight reel! Among the speakers in the video are Latina Futures 2050 Lab project leaders Sonja Diaz, founding director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute, and Veronica Terriquez, CSRC director.

CSRC Newsletter - Winter Quarter 2024

Updates on the Latina Futures 2050 Lab and the community-engaged research project Thriving Youth Survey, an HSI Visioning Forum focused on STEM fields, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies is now co-published with UC Press, and more in the Winter Quarter newsletter! Image: Veronica Terriquez, CSRC director (far right), welcomed presentations from Latina leaders from the East Coachella and Imperial Valleys on February 28.

Alumni Helen and Morgan Chu Pledge $10 Million to Benefit UCLA Institute of American Cultures

Helen and Morgan Chu, whose student activism in the late 1960s helped launch UCLA’s ethnic studies centers, have pledged $10 million to the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, the largest gift ever made to the institute.

New Release! “There Are No Hispanic Stars!” Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 1921–1939

Cultural critic Gabriel Navarro's writings, in English translation for the first time.

Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies

Topics in the Spring 2024 issue range from Chicanx murals and television programming, the lasting cultural impact of Selena, and the DREAMER narrative to the recovery of Brown histories through digital mapping. The art of Nora Chapa Mendoza is featured. Print and online subscriptions available!

Since its founding in 1969, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) has played a pivotal role in the development of scholarly research on the U.S. Chicano-Latino population. Our research mission is supported by five distinct components: a library with special collections archive, an academic press, collaborative research projects, public and academic programs, and community-based partnerships.

The CSRC is proud to be a part of the Institute of American Cultures. We actively collaborate with the Institute's three other ethnic studies research centers and other campus units. Groundbreaking projects include:

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