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Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement Feb. 28-29, 2020
The Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement will bring together 28 participants to present their research on a variety of topics on the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The Chicano Movement was the largest and most widespread civil rights and empowerment in ... -
To change the church 50 years ago, Catolicos por La Raza first had to break ...
By BRITTNY MEJIA, Los Angeles Times ~ January 26, 2020 A crowd of Mexican American protesters pounded on the locked doors of St. Basil’s, an opulent new Catholic church on Wilshire Boulevard. To them, the multimillion-dollar house of worship was a symbol of extravagance by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles leaders ... -
Firma el Cecut convenio para la difusión de la cultura chicana
Por: Redacción, El Imparcial – 20 Enero 2020 Tijuana, BC.- Con el objetivo de propiciar el intercambio artístico binacional e impulsar proyectos conjuntos, el Centro Cultural Tijuana, organismo de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México, y el Centro de Estudios California-México, suscribieron un convenio de colaboración. La directora general del Cecut, ... -
Firma el CECUT convenio de colaboración para la difusión de la cultura chicana
Unen esfuerzos los titulares del Centro Cultural Tijuana y el Centro de Estudios California-México de la Universidad de California en Long Beach. Publicado por Centro Cultural Tijuana - CECUT, 20 Enero 2020 TIJUANA, B.C.- Con el objetivo de propiciar el intercambio artístico binacional e impulsar proyectos conjuntos, el Centro Cultural ... -
50 years later, Chicano Catholic activists recall their midnight Mass clash with police
By: Alejandra Molina, Religion News – January 16, 2020 LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Fifty years later, Richard Martínez still remembers the yelling and screaming. He and a group of supporters of Católicos por La Raza, a lay Catholic group, were trying to get into the midnight Mass at St. Basil ... -
An Open Letter from Undocumented Filmmakers to the Producers of Living Undocumented and the Broader ...
By: Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, Medium – Dec 6, 2019 Our story as undocumented immigrants continues to be the focus of media frenzy, particularly as the Trump administration carries out its harmful xenophobic measures. Too often, media-makers who do not come from our community scout for stories that they can display ... -
Keeping the Dream Alive: Shifting the Undocumented Narrative from Surviving to Thriving
This Monday, Dec. 2nd, 2019, the California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) Team had the honor to participate and present at Sacramento State's 4th Annual Keeping the Dream Alive Conference, an event dedicated to enable educators and professionals to become agents of change in their respective institutions and advance the educational success ... -
CMSC leads 50 Dreamers for DACA Supreme Court hearing and advocate for Advance Parole in ...
––> Read full newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/ba7ef87c1bd6/cmsc-leads-50-dreamers-for-daca-supreme-court-hearing-and-advocate-for-advance-parole-in-dc Only 10 days left until we embark on the 3rd phase of our National Campaign to Restore DACA’s Advance Parole and will take 50+ Dreamers to Washington, D.C. during November 9-15, 2019; including 30 Dreamers that have filed their humanitarian Advance Parole applications as part of our Advance Parole Assistance Program, to personally ... -
Progressives, Hispanics are not 'Latinx.' Stop trying to Anglicize our Spanish language
Hispanic Americans face plenty of challenges as it is. The last thing we need are English-speaking progressives 'wokesplaining' how to speak Spanish... Giancarlo Sopo, Opinion Contributor, USA Today ~ Oct. 25, 2019 When Yale professor Cydney Dupree and her colleague analyzed more than two decades worth of political speeches and conducted experiments searching ... -
Invitation to the World Premiere of “Alpharaoh” documentary on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 6pm
We would like to invite you to join us at the “World Premiere” of Lidieth Arevalo's latest documentary film Alpharaoh (2019), which will be screening at 6pm on Saturday, October 19, 2019 at the Panamanian International Film Festival in Los Angeles (PIFFLA) in the Downtown Independent theater in DTLA! Lidieth Arevalo is the CMSC's Multimedia and ...
