News
Following the announcement of Francisco’s retirement, the Los Angeles Times reran an article that quotes CSRC director Chon A. Noriega.
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega as well as L.A. Xicano co-curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Phantom Sightings co-curator Rita Gonzalez are mentioned in this op-ed on the transformative power of art in public spaces.
This paid summer internship at the CSRC is structured around current and ongoing CSRC projects in the arts. Aside from contributing to the CSRC’s mission to provide information resources on Chicano history and culture, the intern will gain career-relevant archival experience.
The CSRC and National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) study and resulting working paper Social Networks for Hate Speech: Commercial Talk Radio and New Media (July 2012) are cited in this opinion piece.
A preview of an event to be held at the CSRC on April 29, 2015.
A birthday tribute to Dolores Huerta, CSRC wins NEH grant, Sal Castro's legacy, Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship opportunity, film screenings, and more! (Image: Armando Durón, Dolores Huerta, and Barbara Carrasco at the MALDEF Awards, 2014)
CSRC Faculty Associate Leobardo Estrada, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, was featured in a story in UCLA Magazine focusing on the campus experiences and reflections of longtime UCLA professors.
UCLA Newsroom posted a feature story on the Faculty Bulletin Board announcing the CSRC's receipt of an NEH grant for a 3-year archival project focusing on Mexican Americans in Los Angeles in the 1960s-70s.
UCLA Newsroom, March 25, 2015
The Los Angeles Times announced this year's NEH grant winners, including the CSRC, which received the largest grant of all Southern California institutions that were awarded.
Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2015
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $200,000 grant to the CSRC to support the three-year archival project “Providing Access to Mexican American Social History in Los Angeles, 1960s and 1970s.” (Photo by Pedro Arias, 1971)