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  • HSESI in the News!

    March 28, 2024

    Berkeley News has just published a wonderful new article entitled "Soon, California educators must teach ethnic studies. UC Berkeley is helping them prepare."    The work of the High School Ethnic Studies Initiative (HSESI) is featured prominently in the piece, alongside important initiatives taking place in the Berkeley School of Education. The author,...

  • Christian Paiz’s Book Reviewed in The Nation

    March 25, 2024

    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 Newest Distinguished Teaching Award Winner: Victoria Robinson!

    March 20, 2024

     Our very own Victoria Robinson has been recognized with Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award—the highest recognition the campus bestows for teaching!  Victoria is a dynamo pedagogue, collaborator, and mentor for students. She conveys an infectious love to her students of the promise and possibility of the Ethnic Studies classroom as an...

  • New Publication: “The Choice of Liberdade: Brazilian Facets of Anti-Asian Racism and the Activism’s Response”

    March 5, 2024

    Maria "Mavi" Victória Riberio Ruy has recently co-authored an essay titled "The Choice of Liberdade: Brazilian Facets of Anti-Asian Racism and the Activism’s Response." The essay provides a brief overview of Asian racial positionality in Brazil, wrapped up with an 2020 episode in which the "Oriental" element of the Liberdade...

  • Celebrating Decades of Staff Service

    March 4, 2024

    Our staff in Ethnic Studies and in the AGES cluster are an absolutely critical pillar of the work we do--from student engagement to facilities to graduate advising to the countless (many hundreds!) of financial transactions that enable us to achieve our educational mission.   Recently, campus leadership hosted a luncheon...

  • New Article: “A Living Peninsula”

    March 1, 2024

    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...

  • Continued Recognition for Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory

    February 29, 2024

    The beautiful exhibition catalog for Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, which Laura Perez co-curated with María Esther Fernández, was recognized with an honorable mention for the 2024 ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award competition.   The exhibition was also singled out as one of the defining exhibitions of 2023 in the world by Art News in December....

  • Ethnic Studies has Always Been Innovative!

    February 23, 2024

    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,...

  • Prof. Gonzalez’s Children’s Books Project featured in Berkeley News!

    January 30, 2024

    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...

  • Berkeley’s Holiday Gift Guide

    December 6, 2023

    This year Berkeley's Holiday Gift Guide features new titles by three Ethnic Studies faculty. Juana María Rodriguez's Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex; Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelor's: A Memoir; and Christian Paiz's The Striker's of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement.  Read more about these new books here:   https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/12/04/holiday-gift-guide-...