querencia is a metaphysical concept taken from the
verb
querer, which means to want” or “to love. But the reality of
querencia is more complicated, more poetic and sentimental, seated in deep emotions and culture and a sense of longing for and belonging to a place where the heart resides.
Spencer Herrera
Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland, edited by UNM alumni Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Spencer R. Herrera, and UNM professor Levi Romero, was published in 2020 and was reviewed by
The Western Historical Quarterly in June by Joseph Ukockis, a doctoral student in History at the UNM Center for the Southwest.
Claudio Rocha Jessica Wolf |
June 22, 2021
“Asian Americans,” the five-part miniseries created for PBS by Renee Tajima-Peña, UCLA professor of Asian American studies, has received a Peabody Award.
The series, which aired in spring 2020, tells stories of struggle, progress and solidarity from the perspectives of multiple Asian American communities, highlighting their national, ethnic, religious, political, linguistic and cultural diversity.
Tajima-Peña’s production company shares the Peabody with the Center for Asian American Media, public broadcaster WETA-TV, postproduction house Flash Cuts and the Independent Television Service. The series was honored by the Peabody Awards for “its revelatory storytelling as a demonstration of activism and solidarity in the American story and fight for justice and dignity.”
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Cindy Fan, Jayathi Murthy, Karen Umemoto, Roger Wakimoto and David Yoo expressed how the work to create a more equitable society has never been more important.
The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center is stepping down after nearly two decades
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Chon Noriega speaking during a tour of the Chicano Studies Research Center–organized exhibition “Home So Different, So Appealing” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2017. Noela Hueso |
May 21, 2021
When Chon Noriega became director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, he saw it as an opportunity for him to take some of the things he was doing at other institutions around the country bringing artist papers into archival settings, developing media-based teaching materials on race and ethnicity, and curating exhibitions and festivals and bring them into one place at UCLA.