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.
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The year was 1969. It was a time of social protest over civil rights and representation issues. Those protests echoed at UCLA, where Mexican American students were demanding improved access to higher education, as well as greater resources devoted to the study of the Mexican experience in the U.S.
Enter the university’s Mexican American Cultural Center, which was established to support research in what was then the new field of Chicano studies. In the 52 years since, that center now known as the Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) has grown from a small student- and faculty-led initiative to a full-blown academic center, supporting original research and publications, the maintenance of archival collections and a library.
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