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Please join us when we welcome Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau to discuss their new book, P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance (Duke UP, 2025). Part of the Albert M. Camarillo Lecture Series at the CSRC.
A message and new book from the director, updates on the Latina Futures 2050 Lab and community-engaged research projects, an upcoming conference to broaden participation in STEM disciplines, a new CSRC Library exhibition, and more in the winter quarter CSRC Newsletter. Photo: On January 26, the CSRC welcomed UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk to the CSRC Library to meet faculty and staff and learn first-hand about CSRC research projects and initiatives. (CSRC/Paul Connor)
In Learning to Lead: Youth Organizing in Immigrant Communities (Russell Sage Foundation, 2026), CSRC Director Veronica Terriquez offers a rich examination of how youth organizing groups enable low-income, second-generation immigrant adolescents to collectively exercise political power alongside their non-immigrant peers and adult allies.
Rotating exhibitions are on display inside the library and in the vitrine at the entrance. All exhibitions are free to the public and viewable during regular library hours.
The Spring 2026 issue includes essays on the Mexican Easter eggs in the Disney-Pixar film Coco and the analysis of narcocorridos through schizophonic listening. The Dossier section presents recent research on Latinas and Latina identity. The art of Margaret Garcia 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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