Tag: Hispanic/Chicano/Latino Studies: Page 6

Students

Making of the Chicano movement revisited – lessons from the Chicano movement of 1968 – Column

Twenty-eight years ago, on March 3, 1968, more than a thousand Mexican-American students walked out of Abraham Lincoln High School and marched through the streets of East Los Angeles, California. Later in the day, several thousand more of them walked out of five other predominantly Mexican-American high schools — and, by day’s end, more than 10,000 had joined the strike.

June 16, 2007

Latinx

Chicano studies: forging identity – development of Chicano studies as a discipline

Carlos Munoz, Chicano studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley, says the relatively large influx of Chicano students into universities unleashed a political movement focused on civil and human rights and an intellectual movement that both challenged historical knowledge and created the discipline of Chicano studies.

June 16, 2007

Students

Building Aztlan – resurgence of Chicano activism on campus

Some Chicano scholars say the beginning of the Chicano activist movement was the defense of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in 1521, which pitted the indigenous Mexican population against Spanish invaders. Others define it as the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, when Mexico lost half of its territory to the United States and Mexican residents became, as one scholar put it, “strangers in their own land.”

June 16, 2007

Latinx

Dos culturas, one pedagogy: teaching history from black and Hispanic perspectives – efforts to raise ethnic identity amongst the Mexican and African Americans in Texas – Cover Story

Teaching History From Black and Hispanic Perspectives.

June 15, 2007

Latinx

Low Percentage of Latino Students Transfer From Community Colleges to Four-Year Universities, UCLA Study Shows

LOS ANGELES Although a majority of Latino students in California are enrolled in the community-college system, only a handful transfer to a four-year university, according to a new report by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

May 31, 2007

Latinx

Expanding the Literary Canon

Hispanic literature is growing in popularity, and scholars would like to see it better incorporated into high school, college curriculms.

March 28, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Right Person Right Time

The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University, marks a diversity high point in the storied history of the nation’s oldest college.

March 21, 2007

Latinx

Expanding the Literary Canon

For most college students, literature courses began in high school and consisted almost entirely of the classics of America and Western Europe…

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Right Person Right Time

The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University…

March 21, 2007

Latinx

Hispanic Preschoolers More At Risk For Being Overweight

Far too many children are fat by preschool, and Hispanic youngsters are most at risk, concludes a new study on children growing up in poverty.

January 2, 2007

Students

Reinventing the Outreach Wheel?

As a professor of Chicano studies, a faculty adviser to the student organization MEChA and a mentor…

December 27, 2006

Students

Research Roundup

New studies show workplace diversity has little effect on employee retention rates and minority actors are possibly being discriminated against as the majority of acting roles are specifically available to Whites.

December 11, 2006