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Raymond Telles, Associate Adjunct Professor of Ethnic Studies, has received the 2019 Social Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award. Ray teaches courses in the Chicana/o/Latina/o Studies Program and the Comparative Ethnic Studies Program such as CS 135A (Latino Narrative Film to the 1980s);...Read more about Professor Raymond Telles Receives 2019 Social Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award

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/Bancroft Latino Studies CFP 2019-20.pdfRead more about The Bancroft Seminar on Interdisciplinary Latina/o History Call for Manuscripts 2019-2020

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/13/berkeley-talks-michael-omi/Read more about Berkeley Talks: Professor Michael Omi on racial classification in the census

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We are excited to be part of University of California, Berkeley’s campus-wide BIG GIVE fundraising initiative. Funds can now be directed to departments, programs, and causes that donors wish to support. The BIG GIVE campaign...Read more about Big Give 3.14.19 – Support Ethnic Studies

Feb. 19, 2019, the Day of Remembrance marked the 77th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In Japanese culture, the turning of 77 is considered...Read more about Daily Cal Article Featuring Commentary by Asian American Studies Lecturer, Lisa Tsuchitani

Jeff Adachi’s passing is a terrible loss to not just the voiceless and the underrepresented, but to all those who share his vision for a more just society. A fearless advocate for social justice, he was a proud product of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley.

As the...Read more about AAADS Mourns the Passing of Public Defender Jeff Adachi

By Gretchen Kell, Media relations (Berkeley News)

eff Adachi, the San Francisco public defender...Read more about Remembered: Jeff Adachi, alumnus and San Francisco public defender

http://www.dailycal.org/2019/02/15/a-dangerous-moment-professor-juana-maria-rodriguez-talks-sex-works-history-and-the-internets-...Read more about “‘A dangerous moment:’ Professor Juana María Rodríguez talks sex work’s history and the internet’s future,”

Congratulations and our deep appreciation to Jeannie Imazumi who celebrated 40 years of service, and Dewey St. Germaine and Laura Jimenez-Olvera who celebrated 25 years at UC Berkeley. Read more about Ethnic Studies Staff Jeannie Imazumi, Dewey St. Germaine, and Laura Jimenez-Olvera Receive UC Berkeley Service Awards

https://mailchi.mp/aaastudies/2019-aaas-election-results-2977809?fbclid=IwAR1Gwectv42n7p1zg6_qhBUovU9MtJFC3WoffKMQaIYv11EzNT_DeXZWQ84Read more about Ethnic Studies Alumni Eric Pido and Margaret Rhee Win 2019 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards

There’s a black-and-white photograph, 50 years old now, that Oliver Jones keeps close at hand.

Taken in 1969 at UC Berkeley at the height of the Third World Liberation Front strike, it shows a large group of TWLF activists, a coalition of ethnic groups pushing for more diversity...Read more about The 1969 strike at UC Berkeley was just the beginning of Oliver Jones’s battles

https://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/2019-amelia-bloomer-list/Read more about Ethnic Studies Alumna Barbara Jane Reyes’ Book Invocation to Daughters is a 2019 Amelia Bloomer Booklist Best Feminist Book for Young Readers

https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2019-janfeb/selections/beth-h-piatote-649334/Read more about Mixed Genre Writing by Professor Beth Piatote Is Featured in KROnline

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/01/24/couple-builds-bridge-to-berkeley-for-coachella-valleys-brightest-neediest-youth/Read more about Professor Christian Paiz and Ethnic Studies Students Featured in Story on Coachella Valley Youth at UC Berkeley

https://www.cgu.edu/news/2019/01/17502/Read more about Ethnic Studies Alum, Craig Santos Perez, Nominated for the 2019 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Award

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Professor Christian Paiz is featured in the PBS docu-special "The Other Side of Coachella." This docu-special highlights the Coachella Valley community, and how with support from the organization Building Healthy Communities, community members and local groups have formed an alliance to tackle...Read more about Professor Christian Paiz is featured in the PBS docu-special “The Other Side of Coachella.”

In this digital age when some people are asking whether libraries are needed any more, Melissa Stoner can’t imagine life without them. “My aunt worked in the library at the elementary school that I went to. I went to the library because she was there and because it was quiet. I felt like I could...Read more about Advocating for the Sacred in the Digital Age

Native American Heritage Month was a long time coming.

In the 1910s, Red Fox James embarked on a state-to-state sojourn on horseback to solicit support for a single day honoring...Read more about UC Berkeley faculty and a librarian share book picks for Native American Heritage Month

Melissa Stoner and Howard Nez Sr. are related by blood, and always have been. Now more than ever, they’ve also been related by language.

He was a language warrior. She is a literary warrior. For his part, Nez was a Navajo code talker. His granddaughter is a librarian. He was a warrior, a...Read more about Preserving Native American culture, from Standing Rock to Berkeley