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Ethnic Studies’ very own Librarian Lillian Castillo Speed is deservedly featured as part of the campus’ 150 Years of Outstanding Berkeley Women. Read on to learn of Lily’s commitment, dedication, and vision proudly displayed in the Ethnic Studies Library’s collections in Chicano/Latino Studies,...Read more about Ethnic Studies Librarian Lillian Castillo Speed Celebrated as Part of the 150 Years of Outstanding Berkeley Women

Congratulations to Ethnic Studies Professor Lok Siu on the publication of her co-edited volume Chinese Diaspora: Its Developments in Global Perspective. This edited anthology is now available for preorder by the link below. The Zoryan Institute which publishes the Diaspora Journal will be co-...Read more about Publication of Ethnic Studies Professor Lok Siu’s Book — Chinese Diaspora: Its Developments in Global Perspective

Set in the near future, Nez Perce scholar, Ethnic Studies Professor, creative writer, poet, and visionary, Beth Piatote imagines a world in which antibodies offer the currency of citizenship in her short story, “Level 8 Risk.”

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Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and Ethnic Studies Professor Keith Feldman shifted his instructional energy to focus student writing on the traumatic COVID-19 impact in his Humanities Methods in Ethnic Studies course in spring 2020. Revising his planned writing assignments, Feldman invited...Read more about Seldom Recorded from Keith Feldman’s Ethnic Studies Students

Congratulations to Professor Harvey Dong and Professor Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani for their outstanding achievement in co-editing the anthology, Mountain Movers: Student Activism & the Emergence of Asian American Studies (UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press). Fellow co-editors include...Read more about Mountain Movers Receives Bronze Book Award Co-Edited By Professor Harvey Dong & Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw8a8n7ZAZg&feature=youtu.beRead more about Journalist Christina Thornell’s Short Documentary Featuring Professor Catherine Ceniza Choy on Filipino Nurses & How it Relates During the Trying Times of COVID 19

https://www.dailycal.org/author/jmrodriguez/Read more about Professor Juana María Rodríguez’s OpEd in the Daily Cal 6/25/2020

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-26/california-statues-confederate-name-changes-racism Read more about Professor Beth Piatote Quoted in the LA Times on Confronting CA’s Racist Past 6/26/2020

Great news to Ethnic Studies Lecturers Pablo Gonzales and Victoria Robinson on being named proud recipients of 2020 Berkeley’s Changemaker Technology Grants. These grants are part...Read more about Congratulations to the Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grant Awardees Announced Spring 2020

On June 20th, Ethnic Studies lecturer Hatem Bazian, in cooperation with Zakat Foundation of America, the Lighthouse Mosque, and the Northern California Islamic Council helped organize a successful distribution of fresh produce for Bay Area communities in need. The event brought together...Read more about Ethnic Studies Lecturer Hatem Bazian Participates in a Bay Area Food Distribution

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article243720252.htmlRead more about Beth Piatote Quoted on the “Everyday” Structures of Racism

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article243665227.htmlRead more about Professor Beth Piatote On The Movement To Remove Slur Against Native Americans

Read more about Congratulations To Our New Ethnic Studies Ph.D. Graduates

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/06/15/court-decision-on-lgbtq-protections...Read more about Professor and Chair Juana María Rodríguez on Supreme Court Decision on LGBTQ Protections

We write in a moment of accumulated grief and righteous rage at the murderous violence by police and other state forces. The cruelty of this violence has been on horrific display in recent weeks in the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade, the latest...Read more about Statement from the Executive Committee of the Department of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program at UC Berkeley

Statement of Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter

The senseless murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police on May 25th has mobilized thousands of people into the streets to protest against police brutality, state...Read more about AAADS Statement of Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter

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Check out the virtual catalog for the art exhibit “Latinx in California” which highlights the artwork that forms part of the Latinx Research Center’s permanent exhibition, by the same title, at the Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way. Ethnic Studies Professor Laura E. Pérez is the current Chair of...Read more about Latinx in California: An Exhibit of the Latinx Research Center

In this podcast on Ideas On Fire, Professor and Chair, Juana María Rodríguez is interviewed, alongside her writing partner, Emma Pérez, on their shared writing practice and the joys of queer academic friendship.

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