By Alvaro Huerta, PhD ~ April 16, 2018 About: Dr. Alvaro Huerta is an assistant professor of urban and regional planning and ethnic and women’s studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm, (San Diego State University Press, 2013). ...

By Karen Kaplan ~ LA Times ~ April 18, 2018 It’s only 3 centimeters long and less than 1 centimeter wide, but it has the potential to rewrite the history of our ancestors’ migration out of Africa. The object in question is a fossilized piece of a bone, probably the ...

By Christopher Knight ~ LA Times ~ April 18, 2018 I would not have enjoyed living in Teotihuacan, given all the human and animal sacrifice believed necessary to keeping the cosmic wheels of nature and civilization oiled and turning in that ancient Mesoamerican metropolis, just outside modern Mexico City. More ...

Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, co-founder of the CSULB Chicano & Latino Studies department and a participant in the 1968 East L.A. high school walkouts, will wrap up this commemorative series with a lecture based on his recent article “The legacy and importance of Chicano Studies for Mexico and Mexicans.” His lecture “The 1968 East ...

Currently running at the Boyle Heights Museum, Student Power: Walkout for Justice  (April 8, 2018- June 10, 2018) Student Power: Walking Out for Justice focuses on the 50th Anniversary of the East LA Walk Outs commemorating this historic event as well as acknowledging the contributions of Chicanas in this important ...

By Lisa Morehouse~ NPR ~ September 19, 2015 These days, grapes in the grocery store don't seem that controversial. But 50 years ago, a historic workers' strike in the vineyards of California's Central Valley set in motion the most significant campaign in modern labor history: the Farmworker Movement. The United Farm ...

By Alvaro Huerta ~ Inside Higher Ed ~ March 30, 2018 I am a Chicano scholar-activist. What does it mean for me to be a scholar-activist? (Thanks for asking.) It means, based on my understanding and experience, that I have one foot in the academy or academe and one foot ...

By Carolina A. Miranda ~ LA Times ~ March 21, 2018 There was his size: a substantial 6 feet, 225 pounds, according to his FBI file. There was his style: a Chicano attorney who materialized in Los Angeles courtrooms in loud ties, bearing business cards embossed with the Aztec god ...

Over 35-years-ago, Jorge Torres Viveros set to create a school, an environment where people can come together and exchange culture, language and ideas of Latin American Solidarity. In Cuernavaca, Morelos, the CETLALIC Institute was established, teaching thousands of students from the US, Canada and Europe. The California Mexico Studies Center ...

By Carolina Miranda ~ LA Times ~ March 23, 2018 March has been a bit of an unofficial Chicano history month in Los Angeles. It began with the 50th anniversary of the East Los Angeles “blowouts,” the school walkouts led by Mexican American students that helped ignite the Chicano movement. It ...