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October 1, 2014

Donald Henriques, assistant professor of music at Cal State Fresno, reviewed The Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings (CSRC Press, 2012) for the journal Latin American Music Review.

The review states in error the book was published by University of Texas Press.

September 27, 2014

The Path to Knowledge and the False University, a mural designed by artist Roberto Chavez for a wall at East Los Angeles College in 1974 and controversially whitewashed in 1979, was photographed by Oscar R. Castillo shortly after its completion. Castillo's image is part of the Oscar R. Castillo Photographic Archives at the CSRC.

September 11, 2014

Mujeres Talk featured the essay "Collective Imaginaries" by CSRC Librarian Lizette Guerra. Guerra discusses her mentor and predecessor, Yolanda Retter-Vargas, a feminist, lesbian Chicana with an eye toward community. "'If we don’t collect these things,' Yolanda always said, 'no one else will.'"

September 5, 2014

The blog Repeating Islands announced the release of Luis Cruz Azaceta, volume 10 in the CSRC's A Ver: Revision Art History series. The blog focuses on Caribbean arts and cultures. Azaceta is a native of Cuba.

August 28, 2014

Journalist Carolina Miranda was interviewed on Radio Ambulante concerning the lack of representation of Latino artists in the art world and U.S. art institutions.

August 28, 2014

An op-ed by CSRC visiting scholar Alvaro Huerta concerning remarks by Texas Governor Rick Perry linking Central American child migrants to terrorist networks.

August 21, 2014

In this story celebrating the first norteño band to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the author, Agustin Gurza, mentions the Los Tigres Del Norte Foundation donation to the CSRC of $500,000 to support the Frontera Collection.

August 14, 2014

The photograph '47 Chevy in Wilmington, California (1972) by Oscar Castillo appears on the cover of the most current brochure for the Smithsonian Latino Center. The Smithsonian has acquired twelve photographs by the artist, most of which were featured in the CSRC-organized L.A.

August 14, 2014

CSRC director Chon Noriega appeared on the CNN documentary series The Sixties in the episode focusing on the decade's social movements. In the August 7 episode, "The Times They Are A-Changin'," Noriega commented on Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers movement. The full episode can be viewed online here.

The Sixties, aired August 7, 2014

August 7, 2014

CSRC director Chon Noriega was quoted in a story concerning a recent report generated through the Media, Diversity, and Social Change Initiative at USC that indicated the continued lack of people of color within Hollywood films.

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