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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.
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Events that have shaped the history of Asian Americans include the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Philippine American War and the Vietnam War. Cheryl Cheng |
May 6, 2021
Since last spring, when former President Trump began referring to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu,” there has been an alarming increase of anti-Asian violence. Hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have increased 169% in the first quarter of 2021, compared to the same time period in 2020, and about 3,800 hate incidents have been reported over the last year. In March, a man targeted three Atlanta-area massage parlors and killed six women of Asian descent.