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November 1, 2007

Below are the results of several Google searches of terms used to describe people of Mexican descent in the United States: Mexican American, Chicano, Hispanic, Latino, and also illegal and undocumented (with specific reference to Mexicans).

September 1, 2007

Last weekend the Los Angeles Times ran an editorial on the arrival of the first Starbucks in East L.A. That’s right, an editorial!

June 1, 2007
Usually I am the one copyediting the director's message, not writing it. But as my eleven years of working for the CSRC Press draw to a close, I find that all of us here are taking on new tasks.
May 1, 2007
CSRC events in May span oral history research, the visual arts, and education, and offer an introduction to the center’s digital resources.
March 1, 2007
March is a busy month at the CSRC. In addition to co-sponsoring a guest speaker who will discuss border art and activism on March 7, the CSRC is hosting a major launch event on March 12 for its Mujeres Initiative to increase Latina archival holdings at UCLA.
March 1, 2007

An article that appeared in the fall 2004 issue of Aztlán has won a national award in American history. “The Political-Economy of the Mexican Farm Labor Program, 1942–1964,” by Joon K. Kim, won the 2007 ABC-CLIO America: History and Life Award, which is given biennially to recognize and encourage scholarship that advances new perspectives on accepted interpretations or explores previously unconsidered topics in American history.

February 25, 2007

Article discusses artist and the monograph on him published by the CSRC, the first volume in the A Ver: Revisioning Art History series

Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2007

February 17, 2007

The artist reminisces on life in East L.A., mural painting, dining al fresco on a traffic island, and more

BOMB, Winter 2007

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