In Memoriam
Mario Barrera, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies, passed away on March 29, 2024, in Ventura, California. He was one of the founders of the field of Chicano Studies whose influential writings shaped the discipline. He was our respected and beloved colleague.
Remembering Manuel R. Delgado
(December 28, 1940 – October 28, 2024)
The Delgado family is sad to announce the passing of Manuel R. Delgado on October 28, 2024, at age 83 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He attended UC Berkeley in the late 60’s and helped to establish the Ethnic Studies Department through his activism and leadership. The following biographical account was assisted by Lucha Corpi, poet and writer.
Ethnic Studies Continuing Lecturer and American Cultures Program Director Victoria Robinson was named a recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA)(link is external), UC Berkeley’s highest honor. The DTA recognizes faculty who consistently do an outstanding job teaching and inspiring their students.
diaCritics, the online publication of DVAN (the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network) has published a rich and robust conversation between Ethnic Studies doctoral student Claire Chun and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU.
“To live with opacity, to live with uncertainty”: A Conversation with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Christian Paiz’s book, The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement, has just been the subject of a wonderful long-form review in The Nation. Check it out here!
Our very own Victoria Robinson has been recognized with Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award—the highest recognition the campus bestows for teaching!
Dr. Salar Mameni has just published a new article in the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal. Entitled “A Living Peninsula,” the essay reflects on Laleh Khalili’s Sinews of War on Trade. Mameni proposes that “thinking with the sea as a living entity is significant for challenging the possessive, colonial, and destructive movement of capital across seabeds.”
Dr. Salar Mameni has just published a new article in the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal. Entitled “A Living Peninsula,” the essay reflects on Laleh Khalili’s Sinews of War on Trade. Mameni proposes that “thinking with the sea as a living entity is significant for challenging the possessive, colonial, and destructive movement of capital across seabeds.”
I am pleased to share a wonderful article in Berkeley News, written by the ever-talented Ivan Natividad. The article focuses on Berkeley’s history of innovation, and Ivan offers a powerful rendering of the origins of Ethnic Studies as transformative innovation! The article features wonderful insights from Harvey Dong, Clementina Duron, Vicci Wong, and Waldo Martin.
I am pleased to share a wonderful article in Berkeley News, written by the ever-talented Ivan Natividad. The article focuses on Berkeley’s history of innovation, and Ivan offers a powerful rendering of the origins of Ethnic Studies as transformative innovation! The article features wonderful insights from Harvey Dong, Clementina Duron, Vicci Wong, and Waldo Martin.
Ivan Natividad has written a fabulous news story for Berkeley News about the innovative class project designed by our very own Dr. Pablo Gonzalez. Students in Gonzalez’s Introduction to Chicano History spent the fall semester researching Chicanx history, and then used those histories to produce original narratives and illustrations in storybook form for elementary grade students.
Congratulations to Ethnic Studies Graduate Student David Pham whose essay,
“Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics,” was just published in American Literary Journal. His essay intervenes in critical interpretations of Vietnamese iconography to consider how fire and ash might serve as powerful ways to reimagine diasporic Vietnamese identity.
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