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UCLA doubles down on ethnic studies expansion amid fraught national politics
By Teresa Watanabe | Los Angeles Times | Feb. 5, 2024 | Photo By Mel Melcon More than five decades ago, Morgan Chu was taught a version of American history ... -
How Mendez versus Westminster helped end legal segregation of schools in the southwest
Thursday was the 75th anniversary of the ruling that barred creating separate schools for “Spanish-speaking” children. By Michael Marks | KERA news | APR. 15, 2022 | Photo by Mendez ... -
Sent to the ‘Mexican school’ 75 years ago, Sylvia Mendez’s fight for equality continues
By Paloma Esquivel | LA Times | APR. 14, 2022 | Photo by Gina Ferazzi On a spring morning, Sylvia Mendez walked into an eighth-grade history classroom in Santa Ana ... -
Mexicans Are Not Dumb, the Schools Fail
By Rodolfo F. Acuna, La Prensa San Diego – 24 June 2010 The great American educator, John Dewey, repeatedly made the case that students did not fail; schools failed students. This ... -
Ethnic studies pioneer Rudy Acuña on neoliberalism, Trump and the future of academia
By JEFF BIGGERS, Salon – MARCH 28, 2021 As the debate over ethnic studies brews in California and the Biden administration transitions into power, the 88-year-old founding chair of the landmark Chicana and ... -
Ethnic Studies Redux: Professor Rudy Acuña Still Has Work to Do
By: Jeff Biggers, Common Dreams – March 23, 2021 The pandemic is not an excuse for mediocrity," declared Dr. Rodolfo "Rudy" Acuña, as he worked on another commentary in a rigorous writing ... -
Church known as a birthplace of LA's Chicano civil rights movement earns national recognition
The Church of the Epiphany in the 1960s became a center for the flourishing Chicano movement. Five decades later, it has earned a spot on the National Register of Historic ... -
Summer 2021 California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Update 2/4/2021: As of Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 12:00 AM PST, The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) has closed the application period for our Summer 2021 California-Mexico Dreamers ... -
Who will teach Ethnic Studies?
California State University will require students to take ethnic studies, but the faculty and system remain divided over how to put the new requirement into place. By Colleen Flaherty, Inside ... -
“In Memory of the Legendary Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones: Chicano Scholar, Activist and Poet”
“Anti-Mexicanism is a form of nativism practiced by colonialists and their inheritors.” —Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones (2017) By Álvaro Huerta, Ph.D., Latino Rebels ~ November 13, 2020 Image Credit: “Dr. Juan ...