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A feature on the exhibition Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, which recently opened at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami.
Harry Gamboa Jr. and photographer Luis Garza took part in a Q&A at the Autry Museum of the American West about cultural representations of Chicanos and Chicanas. Each photographer is featured in a current exhibition at the Autry. In his comments about Harry Gamboa Jr.: Chicano Male Unbonded, Gamboa mentioned CSRC director Chon A. Noriega, whose portrait is included in the exhibition. Garza’s work is included in the Autry exhibition La Raza, which he co-curated and which was produced in collaboration with the CSRC.
A Los Angeles Times article examines the life of Oscar Acosta, Chicano attorney during the 1960s and 1970s and subject of the PBS documentary The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo, which premiered March 23. The documentary incorporates an extensive number of images from the CSRC’s La Raza Photograph Collection.
A screening of Efraín Gutiérrez’s 1976 feature film Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive! was featured in a roundup of special screening events in New York City. The film was restored by the CSRC in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and inducted in 2014 into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
An image from the CSRC’s La Raza Photograph Collection that shows participants in a 1968 student walkout at Roosevelt High School was published in Newsday with a reprint of a letter that appeared in the news magazine on March 7, 1968. The author of the letter, student Jeffrey Schechtman, states the need for youth to play a role in the political process.
Images from the CSRC’s La Raza Photograph Collection were used in an Associated Press article discussing similarities between the East Los Angeles student walkouts of 1968 to the recent activism of teens in Parkland, Florida.
The two-day conference Seeking Educational Justice: The 1968 Chicana/o Student Walkouts Made History, organized by the CSRC, was highlighted in a UCLA Newsroom story discussing the fiftieth anniversary of the student-led movement.
A conference, screenings, and exhibition commemorating the 1968 student walkouts, a new issue of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, publications by CSRC visiting scholars, Esteban Torres Papers processed, and more in this month's newsletter!
(Image: Students and community supporters outside Roosevelt High School during the 1968 walkouts. Photo by Devra Weber. La Raza Photograph Collection)
In a letter to the campus community, the Chancellor and Special Assistant to the Chancellor on Immigration Policy state UCLA policy and resources for DACA and TPS students and staff.
A preview of the two-day conference "Seeking Educational Justice: The 1968 Chicana/o Student Walkouts Made History", organized by the CSRC, was highlighted in Hyperallergic. The preview included an image from the CSRC’s La Raza Photograph Collection.