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CSRC assists UCLA faculty and recruitment efforts, updates on California Freedom Summer and the Latina Futures 2050 Lab, more reports from the Thriving Youth Study, a new exhibition on Latina lesbian activism, CSRC Press wins awards, and more in the Spring Quarter newsletter.
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.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/8/2326611/-Trump-Is-Awakening-a-...
Daily Kos, June 8, 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.]
https://dailybruin.com/2025/06/03/former-ucla-vice-chancellor-for-academ...
Daily Bruin, June 3, 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
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.
https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/welcoming-dr-antonio-tinoco-valencia/
UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, May 23, 2025
https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/05/research-uncovers-local-labor-issues-that-...
UC Santa Cruz News, May 20, 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.