Tag: Hispanic/Chicano/Latino Studies: Page 2

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Federal Program Helping Eastern Washington University Transform Lives

Dr. Christina Torres Garcia and her husband, Dr. Martin Meraz-Garcia, are Eastern Washington University professors and the first in their families to earn post-graduate degrees.

April 12, 2011

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Assessing Arizona

Three Mexican-American scholars discuss Arizona’s immigration law and its ramifications on the state’s colleges and universities.

June 21, 2010

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SPECTRUM : SMASHING THE STEROTYPES ON THE BIG SCREEN

While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four films that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfield War” and “Born in East L.A.”

August 5, 2009

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Mexican students to be recognized Friday

The California-Mexico Project (CMP), headed by CSULB Chicano/Latino Studies professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, and Mexico’s National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES) arranged the study abroad program. Dr. Ana Uribe of Mexico’s University of Colima directed the program and its research component.  According to the Daily 49er.com, among them are seven undergraduates from three […]

August 5, 2009

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Smashing the Stereotypes On the Big Screen

While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four fi lms that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfi eld War” and “Born in East L.A.”

August 5, 2009

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Sotomayor’s Nomination Reaffirms National Identity of U.S. Latinos, Scholars Say

The morning President Barack Obama introduced federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as his Supreme Court nominee, Dr. Ruth E. Zambrana, a professor in the University of Maryland-College Park Women’s Studies department, received numerous phone calls from gleeful colleagues.

May 26, 2009

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New York’s Hostos College Names New President

Dr. Felix Matos Rodriguez, a former official in the government of Puerto Rico, has been named president of Hostos Community College in the Bronx.

May 3, 2009

Students

Expanding the Conversation

Hispanic law reviews provide an outlet to address Latino issues overlooked by other law reviews.

April 15, 2009

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UCLA Launches Largest Mexican, Mexican American Online Archive

The University of California, Los Angeles Chicano Studies Research Center, the UCLA Library, and the Arhoolie Foundation have launched the largest online digital archive of Mexican and Mexican American recordings.

April 1, 2009

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New Book Exposes Undocumented Students’ Struggles

Undocumented University of California, Los Angeles students share their struggles to help advance the DREAM Act.

April 1, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Pushing for a More Inclusive University

From age 8 through his years as a Stanford University student, Dr. Charles Ogletree, the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard University, labored in the fields with his migrant-worker parents.

February 18, 2009

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TV Festival Explores Latino Image in Film

Forty films showing the progression of how Latino characters and culture are depicted in cinema will be the stars of a festival hosted by Turner Classic Movies and Chon Noriega, author and film professor from the University of California/Los Angeles.

February 17, 2009