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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 Todd Cheney/UCLA 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. ....
The need for a counter-narrative on anti-Asian racism It’s no secret that the uptick in expressions of anti-Asian racism in the United States, including verbal and physical assaults, is having a deleterious effect on the recruitment of international students in key Asian sending countries, the source of 70% of all international students in the US. The most egregious cases have received extensive coverage in the Vietnamese print, electronic and social media. A number of parents whose children had been accepted to US high schools, for example, have changed their minds out of fear for the personal safety of their sons and daughters. ....
The mentorship-based initiative creates student research opportunities and serves as a model for diversifying the academic pipeline Leroy Hamilton/UCLA From left: Kylie Paramore, Kamry Parks, Amora Haynes, Vivica Rush, who were in the first cohort of UCLA Bunche Fellows. Jessica Wolf | February 25, 2021 Like virtually everyone, Audrey Devost’s first semester at college was a lifechanger. As a transracial adoptee who grew up in Vermont with white parents and another adopted multi-racial sibling, going to a historically Black college and university in Washington, D.C., exposed her to a world she had never really experienced. “My friends and family would tell you, after my first semester at Howard University, I drastically changed,” she said. “But the way that it changed me going from Vermont, which is one of the whitest states in the U.S., to a historically Black university, was a very beautiful thing for my racial identity.” ....