Events
Join us in this timely intergenerational dialogue about the past, present, and future of Chicana/o/x Studies. The panel will discuss a variety of issues in the field including the centering of the radical spirit and a commitment to liberatory education.
Priscilla Ybarra, associate professor of English at the University of North Texas, will explore how a consideration of environmental issues offers a way of studying commonalities and differences within the diversity of Latina/o/x literatures in a lecture titled “Who Stole the Planet.” Ybarra will argue that hierarchies established through colonization and capital have led to the destruction of the land as well as the domination of indigenous peoples and peoples of color.
Please join us when Aurora Levins Morales, a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi writer, activist, poet, and visual artist, reads from the newly revised and expanded edition of her book Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (Duke University Press, 2019). A lifelong arts-based organizer who uses history as a mode of storytelling, Levins Morales has been active in many social justice movements.
Join us for a roundtable discussion featuring the directors of UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers, the only organized ethnic studies research units within the ten University of California campuses. The discussion will address the centers' significant contributions to ethnic studies and social justice made during the past fifty years.
Laura Velasco Ortiz, professor of cultural studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, and Carlos Hernández Campos, statistical analyst at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, will discuss their 2018 book Migración, trabajo y asentamiento en enclaves globales: Indígenas en Baja California Sur. The book examines the living conditions of indigenous workers and residents who arrived in Baja, California, over the past three decades.
In her new book, Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (University of California Press, 2019), Genevieve Carpio, UCLA professor of Chicana/o studies and CSRC faculty advisory committee member, demonstrates how regional authorities constructed racial hierarchies in the Inland Empire by controlling the mobility of residents.
The UCLA Department of Urban Planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative (LPPI) host an academic symposium in honor of Dr.