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The Center is a great place to identify and locate resources available in the Pollak Library and on the web related to Chicanos/Latinos, their history, culture and politics.  You can also find updated information on related cultural events, scholarships, music, the arts, internships, study abroad, and conferences.  We have a knowledgeable staff ready to assist you!                                                                                                        CRC Librarian: Barbara
 CRC Staff: Berenice, Nayeli, Mildred, Danny & Natalie (not pictured: Anna & Maria)

The CRC & Chicana & Chicano Studies in the News:

Congratulations to CRC Staff member and graduate student in History, Daniel Vidrio, has been awarded a CSU Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Way to go Danny!!! http://www.calstate.edu/predoc/scholars_list.shtml

Welcome to new CRC Administrative Coordinator, Maria Contreras, who joins us from the CSUF University Learning Center. Drop by and say hello.

The CRC is online, just send us a message! If the CRC is not online, please leave a message & contact info so we can get back to you with an answer! Or after hours, try:
Looking for an interesting class or two for the Fall? Check out these innovative courses:
For Fall 2008 Assistant Professor Erualdo Gonzalez is offering a course in the History of the Chicano (CHIC 345) which will focus on the United States history from the 1820s to the present as it is conditioned by the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, gender, region, generational variation, politics, and economics with a special emphasis on Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
                                                                                                                                                                                            Erualdo Gonzalez, PhD

 Assistant Professor Roberta Espinoza (Sociology) will offer Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S. (SOC/CHIC 434) for the Fall 2008.  Though the use of documentaries and literature written by Chicanas and Latinas, students will explore the diverse experiences of Chicanas and Latinas in the United States.

Roberta Espinoza, PhD

Also in the Fall Semester Assistant Professor Patricia Literte (Sociology) will be teaching Biracial and Multiracial People (SOC 324) in which the historical and contemporary experiences of biracial and multiracial people will be examined.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Patricia Literte, PhD

  On Friday, April 25, 2008, at a Student Forum sponsored by the Cal State Fullerton's Alliance of Students for an Equal Education, and endorsed by the Chicana & Chicano Studies Department, the CSUF Office of Student Affairs, The Orange County Dream Team, and CSUF Students for Peace and Social Justice, Department Faculty, Assistant Professors Patricia Perez and Alexandro Jose Gradilla, spoke on behalf of the California Dream Act: Aid to Undocumented College Students.
       Patricia Perez, PhD                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Alexandro Jose Gradilla, PhD 
     Click  for more information: CSUF News Front
*****Support the California Dream Act: Please use these support letters to contact the State Senate Education Committee & these support letters to contact other state officials.*****

Center Announcements:               
CALL FOR PROPOSALS/PAPERS

The NACCS Joto Caucus & the CSULA

Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities presents the 2nd NACCS JOTO Conference

"Sacred Space Making: Mapping Queer Scholarship, Activism, and Performance" 
for more information or to submit a proposal or paper, click here.

The CRC was profiled recently in a Daily Titan article by Allen D. Wilson. 
 

 
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