Latin American & Latino Studies
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, alum Hector Tobar speaks on campus
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Oakes College alumnus Hector Tobar spoke on campus November 15.
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Fox coedits new book about transparency in Mexico
Jonathan Fox, professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has coedited a new book about the Mexican public’s right to know about its government.
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New Social Sciences research award honors Martin Chemers
The new Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research in the Division of Social Sciences recognizes senior faculty members who have made major impacts through their research.
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Zavella coedits new book on women and migration
Patricia Zavella, professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has coedited the new book Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader.
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SF Bay Area’s poor and minorities face disproportionate burden of exposure to environmental hazards
From African American residents of West Oakland’s diesel-choked neighborhoods to Latinos in San Francisco’s traffic-snarled Mission District, poor and minority residents of the San Francisco Bay Area get more than their share of exposure to air pollution
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Digital divide leaving immigrants further behind, UC Santa Cruz study finds
The digital divide between immigrants and the native born is widening in the United States, with some immigrant groups less than half as likely to have computer access at home as nonimmigrants, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Only 36 percent of Latino immigrant youth have a…
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Regional equity movement is the civil rights issue of the 21st century, say authors of Ford Foundation report
Across the country, many urban neighborhoods and entire regions are segregated as surely as if there were “whites only” signs posted. But leaders of the new “regional equity” movement are organizing to break down the divisions of race, income, education, and employment that cut off opportunity and polarize Americans. A new Ford Foundation report outlines…
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Professor contributes to Katrina report documenting environmental inequities in rescue
As the next hurricane season quickly approaches, the Gulf Coast’s low-income communities of color are still left behind. For them, “days of hurt and loss are likely to become years of grief, dislocation, and displacement,” said Manuel Pastor, codirector of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Pastor…
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UC Santa Cruz brings Chicana author Sandra Cisneros to Mello Center on April 30
Acclaimed Chicana author Sandra Cisneros, whose book The House on Mango Street is required reading in classrooms across the country, will give a public reading at 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 30, at the Mello Center for the Performing Arts in Watsonville. Cisneros will be accepting the first annual Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa Distinguished Lecture Award,…
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UC Santa Cruz brings civil rights crusader Constance Rice to town April 20
Over the years, civil rights attorney Connie Rice has tackled incendiary social problems, from urban police misconduct to inequitable patterns of school construction in Los Angeles. Along the way, she has won widespread acclaim for her work expanding opportunity and advancing multiracial democracy. On April 20, Rice will deliver a free public lecture titled “Pushing…
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UCSC team to share environmental justice expertise with state air board
Environmental justice researchers are at the forefront of efforts to evaluate the risks posed by air pollution, particularly the disproportionate risks faced by residents of low-income and minority neighborhoods. So it’s good news that Manuel Pastor, professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a leading researcher in…