2006
News
June 2006 CSRC Newsletter
Aztlan Submissions
Scholars
planning their summer writing schedule should remember that Aztlán:
A Journal of Chicano Studies welcomes submissions on any aspect
of Chicano studies. Aztlán accepts research articles (which
are substantive, scholarly, original contributions to the field,
less than 10,000 words); dossier articles (which are journalistic
pieces or personal views on timely topics, less than 5,000 words);
and review articles (which are shorter pieces on books, movies,
recordings, events, conferences, exhibitions, and so on). We would
especially like to see more essays submitted from the social sciences.
Articles may be in either English or Spanish. Submission
guidelines are posted online, along with descriptions for
junior scholars of what happens at each stage of the publication
process.
A Ver Monographs
Now available
online is a schedule
for the release of the first ten books in the A Ver series.
Each is about an individual Latina/o artist, starting with books
on Gronk and Yolanda Lopez .
Chicano Studies Textbooks
If you are interested
in considering one of our books
for a fall course adoption, please email the request to the
CSRC Press , noting
the course name and expected enrollment. Popular books for the
classroom from the CSRC include The
Chicano Studies Reader : An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2000
and Las Obreras: Chicana
Politics of Work and Family.
May 2006 CSRC Newsletter
CSRC Research Report
No. 8
The Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act (CETA) is often credited as a significant
source of funding for emerging minority and community-based arts
organizations in the 1970s. Unfortunately, reports Mirasol Riojas
in a newly released CSRC Research Report, much of this history
is anecdotal. The study, The Accidental Arts Supporter: An Assessment
of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), examines
available data to assess the impact of CETA on the arts as a whole,
rather than on particular arts organizations or programs. To read
or download the report, please go to the reports webpage.
Latinos & Social
Security Research Report No. 1
When compared
with the entire American population over 65, twice as many elderly
Latinos face poverty, yet working-age Latinos contribute disproportionately
more into Social Security than other groups do, according to Patricia
A. Halliwell and Kathleen H. Wilber of the USC Ethel Percy Andrus
Gerontology Center. Their report, Impact of Social Security on
the Latino Community, addresses the status of social security
in America and the potential effects any changes in the system
might have, especially in regard to the Latino population. The
report is published by UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging,
USC Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, and the CSRC. To read
or download the report, please go to its webpage.
New Issue of Aztlán
The spring issue
of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies has been sent to
subscribers. If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now so that
you can read about two films, Star Maps (1997) and El Norte (1983),
that are “part of a wide range of fantasies and ideas about U.S.
national identity”; about the history of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense
Committee, which helped exonerate seventeen Chicano youths who
were convicted of murder in Los Angeles in 1942; about the material
benefits that result from educational pursuits made by Mexican-American
women; and about the pioneering Mexican rock band Maldita Vecindad
y los Hijos del 5 Patio. The dossier section—Loss Angeles—brings
together prose, personal memoir, and poetry composed by three
Los Angeles–based Chicana/o writers who reflect on the recent
loss of a family member. To read the introduction or see the table
of contents, click here.
April 2006 CSRC Newsletter
Leaks in the Chicana
and Chicano Educational Pipeline
The CSRC
released a new Latino
Policy & Issues Brief and a new CSRC
Research Report at the 2006
Latino Education Summit . Both argue that the future of the
Latina/o community and the future of California will be determined
by the efforts made to improve educational conditions for Latina/o
students.
The brief
, by Tara J. Yosso and Daniel G. Solórzano, describes
how Chicana/os suffer the lowest educational attainment of any
major racial or ethnic group in the United States and suggests
how to repair the serious and persistent leaks in the Chicana/o
educational pipeline.
The research
report , by Lindsay Pérez Huber, Ofelia Huidor, María
C. Malagón, Gloria Sánchez, and Daniel G. Solórzano,
describes at length recent research on the critical transitions
within each segment of the educational pipeline (K-12, community
college, undergraduate, and graduate) and offers recommendations
for policies that would increase the number of Latina/os who graduate
with advanced degrees.
Latinos and Social
Security
The CSRC
assisted the UCLA
Center for Policy Research on Aging with launching their new
policy brief series on the impact of social security on the Latino
population. The first Latino
& Social Security Policy Brief , by Fernando Torres-Gil,
is “Latinos and the Future of Social Security: A Time to Act.”
Click here
to read the report.
Film Conference
The CSRC
Press had a table at the National Association of Latino Independent
Producers annual conference in Long Beach in early March, where
it sold its new DVDs and books. Thanks to Kathryn Galan and Erick
Garcia of NALIP for making this possible!
Aztlán Delay
Due
to a printer's distribution error, delivery of the spring issue
of Aztlán to subscribers has been delayed. It should arrive
in mid-April.
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