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In Memoriam of Ruben Salazar and Gus Chavez
Voices: Remembering the Chicano Moratorium and Ruben Salazar
By: NBC ~ August 29, 2014
From the few times I heard it, the story went something like this: It was a hot day in August when my father left work early to attend a “Peace March” in East Los Angeles. Billed as The National Chicano Moratorium, it was a protest against the number of Mexican-Americans dying in Vietnam.
This alone piqued my interest, because my dad never called himself a Chicano. He was a straight-arrow striver. He was a bank manager. It was hard to imagine him at a protest, especially among the kind of people he usually referred to as “militants.” ... Read More
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In Memoriam: Gus Chavez
By: Aaron Burgin ~ SDSU NewsCenter~ August 23, 2019
The founding director of SDSU's Office of Educational Opportunity Programs and Ethnic Affairs is remembered for a decades-long commitment to educational inclusion.
The values of diversity and spirit of inclusion at today’s San Diego State University bear the decades-old fingerprints of Augustine “Gus” Chavez, who helped cement the university’s commitments to enroll students from historically underserved communities and support them to graduation... Read More
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Advance Parole Voices: Yesenia Timoteo
Check out our latest episode of Advance Parole Voices, featuring Yesenia Timoteo, a Dreamer and State Director of LULAC Utah. She participated in our June 2019 Campaign to Restore Advance Parole advocacy trip in Washington, D.C.
Advance Parole Voices is a short documentary video series produced by the California-Mexico Studies Center that educates about, and advocates for the reinstatement of the Advance Parole immigration provision for DACA recipients.
Watch more Advance Parole Voices videos here
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Invitation to register for the International Conference to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Chicano Studies in Tijuana, Mexico.
El Centro de Estudios California-México (CMSC), El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef), San Diego State University (SDSU) y el Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT) se complacen en invitar a la Conferencia del 50 Aniversario de la Creación de Estudios Chicanos, que se dará a cabo en El Colef en Tijuana, B.C., México del 10 al 12 de Octubre 2019.
La conferencia se centrará en el origen del movimiento Chicano y la creación de programas universitarios sobre Estudios Chicanos a partir de 1969 en las universidades de Estados Unidos, así como la importancia de la enseñanza de Estudios Chicanos y Latinos en Estados Unidos y México, promoviendo un análisis comparativo de los alcances de este movimiento en ambos países.
Click aquí para ver el PROGRAMA PRELIMINAR
Para para ser invitado a la conferencia y para recibir más información sobre hospedaje favor de REGISTRARSE AQUÍ o hacer click en el botón de abajo.
Para más información, contacte al Profesor Armando Vazquez-Ramos
armando.vazquez-ramos@csulb.edu ~ (562) 972-0986
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