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2024 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture by Charlene Villaseñor Black
2024-03-04 16:00 - 17:00 UTC
You are cordially invited to the UCLA Art History Department’s annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture featuring Charlene Villaseñor Black, Professor of Art History and Chair of the Chicana/o and Central American Studies Department at UCLA.
Professor Villaseñor Black will present her talk entitled “Art against Necropolitics” on Monday, March 4 at 5 PM in the Optimist Room of the Luskin Conference Center.

This is an in-person event that you won’t want to miss!

Kindly RSVP by Wednesday, February 21 to attend. CLICK HERE TO RSVP .

CCAS Talk by Cynthia Vázquez: "We Start at Dusk:" Peon Playing and the (Re)connect of Kumeyaay Transborder Sovereignties on the U.S./Mexico Border Copy
2023-12-05 15:30 - 17:00 | Kaplan Hall, A48
We cordially invite you to a CCAS Talk by Cynthia Vázquez:
Title: “We Start at Dusk:” Peon Playing and the (Re)connect of Kumeyaay Transborder Sovereignties on the U.S./Mexico Border
Abstract: The U.S./Mexico border serves as a buffer zone where various state-level legalities are enforced, and it is constantly under surveillance by the U.S. and Mexico governments. Today, state-sponsored surveillance and border settler-colonialities operate in tandem to dispossess tribal nations whose traditional lands overlap multiple settler borders. For the Kumeyaay nation, whose traditional homelands straddle the San Diego-Tijuana region, and whose migratory cycles have been intertwined with generations of knowledge exchange, the border has ruptured their sense of nationhood. Presently, Kumeyaay in Mexico are seeking to reconnect with their counterparts in the U.S. through the reclamation and revitalization of the ancestral game of Peon. Playing Peon is connected to larger questions surrounding language reclamation efforts and Indigenous sovereignties in California and Baja California. How do border tribes assert their sovereignty amid increasing restrictive border policies? How do the Kumeyaay reclaim a game that has been dormant for more than 60 years? This talk will highlight grassroots efforts to reclaim Peon on both sides of the border, transborder reconnections, and the processes in reclaiming Peon. The larger scope of this talk will focus on how Indigenous sovereignties are implemented and practiced on the border historically and presently based off of my ten year community and tribally approved based research.
Biography: Dr. Vazquez is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA. She received her doctorate from UC San Diego in Ethnic Studies with a graduate specialization in Critical Gender Studies. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar in humanities and social sciences, her research is situated at the nexus of critical theories of Indigenous transborder migrations, Indigeneity, settler-colonialism, binational schooling, Indigenous & border epistemologies, and Latinidad. Her pronouns are she/her/hers. Born in LA, brought up in Las Vegas, she’s called San Diego her home for ten years. Cynthia identifies as Xicana and is deeply involved in relationship making with artists and local tribal community based on land pedagogies, liberatory practices, and resistance.
Date: Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Location: Kaplan Hall, A48

Artist Talk: Joey Terrill
2023-11-28 19:30 - 20:30 | Hammer Museum
We cordially invite you to Artist Talk: Joey Terrill! Artist and retired Director of Global Advocacy & Partnerships for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Joey Terrill, speaks about his life’s work as an artist and activists focusing on issues facing queer Chicano communities in Los Angeles and beyond.
Date: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90024
For more information, click the following link: Artist Talk: Joey Terrill.

Oceanic Studies Book Forum
2023-11-15 12:00 - 13:30 | UCLA James West Alumni Center – Founders Room
We cordially invite you to the Oceanic Studies Book Forum with invited guests: Alfred Flores (Harvey Mudd College) & Christen Sasaki (UC San Diego). Moderated by Genevieve Carpio, Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies.
Date: Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: UCLA James West Alumni Center – Founders Room
325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Please click the link to RSVP. Don’t miss on your chance to attend this exciting book forum!

Dia De Los Muertos
2023-11-05 16:00 - 20:30 | 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Hello CCAS community members,
We cordially invite you to Dia De Los Muertos! Guided by Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza with over 230 students.
Date: Sunday, November 5th, 2023
Time: 4:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291

The Inaugural Afro-Isthmus Symposium
2023-11-02 09:00 - 17:00 | Collins Room Alumni Center (UCLA)
We cordially invite you to the Inaugural Afro-Isthmus Symposium with invited guests: Marielba Herrera (ES) & Heriberto Erquicia (ES).
Date: Thursday, November 2th, 2023
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Collins Room Alumni Center (UCLA)
325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Lunch and light refreshments will be provided for symposium and mixer attendees. The closest parking for guests is UCLA Structure 8.
Please click the link to RSVP. Capacity is set at 60 attendees, don’t miss on your chance to attend this great symposium!

2023 CCAS OPEN HOUSE
2023-09-27 13:30 - 15:00 | Bunche Hall South Patio
Hello new and continuing students and community members,
We cordially invite you to the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies Open House! We are having our Open House in person, in front of UCLA Bunche Hall elevators, on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm.
Please join us and bring your friends. You will meet our department faculty, graduate students, TAs, and network with students in the major and minor! If interested in adding the major or minor(s), meet with Ellie, our phenomenal undergraduate advisor.
Pizza and refreshments will be provided! Join us for an evening of networking, music, and more!
If you have any questions, please contact our undergraduate student advisor, “Ellie” Hernandez, at studentadvisor@ccas.ucla.edu.
The deadline to RSVP for yourself or to table as part of a Student Organization is Friday, September 22.
RSVP CLICK HERE
Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: Bunche Hall South Patio (by the elevators)

2023 CCAS Commencement Pictures
2023-06-17 08:00 - 17:00
Click on this link to view the 2023 Commencement Pictures.

PH.D GRADUATE ALUM JACK CARAVES presents for The Department of Gender Studies
2023-03-13 15:30 - 17:00
PH.D GRADUATE JACK CARAVES presents for The Department of Gender Studies

Trans*Formative Spirituality in Trans Latinx Lives: Cultivating Spirituality, Resistance, and Hope on the Path of Becoming
Monday, March 13th
3:30-5pm
YRL Presentation Room
Description: Drawing on life history interviews and survey data with trans Latinx adults in Los Angeles, this talk examines how trans Latinx immigrants experience multiple forms of structural, legal, and interpersonal violence and antagonism throughout their lives. I focus on the importance of spirituality in trans Latinx lives and the connection, healing, self-determination, and self-actualization it provides amidst a society that marks them undesirable and disposable. Focusing on spirituality, I theorize the concept of “trans*formative spirituality” as a way of “doing” spirituality and “being” spiritual that occurs through the process of disidentification from family, religious, and cultural identity–and is informed by trans Latinx embodiment and consciousness. Moreover, Trans*Formative spirituality captures the internal and external transformations trans Latinxs go through as they engage in the labor of becoming.
Bio: Jack Cáraves (he/him/they/them) is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. Previously, he was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Latina/o Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Assistant Professor of WGSS and Sociology at San José State University. He holds a PhD in Chicana and Chicano Studies from UCLA. He received his B.A. in Latin American and Latino Studies and Politics at UC Santa Cruz.
Jack is an interdisciplinary trans feminist activist scholar and specializes in Latinx gender and sexuality studies. His research examines the role of gender variance, trans embodiment, and sexuality in shaping migration, family dynamics, identity formation, spirituality, and world-making for transgender Latinxs in Los Angeles. His work in the trans Latinx community began through a community-based participatory research project with the TransLatin@ Coalition that focused on the holistic health needs of trans Latinxs in southern California. Jack is currently working on his first book, Trans Power: Illegality, Identity Formation, and Spirituality in Trans Latinx Lives, which is under contract with Duke University Press.
Jack is also co-creater and co-host of the podcast, Anzaldúing It, along with Dr. Angélica Becerra—a podcast grounded in Chicana and Women of Color Feminisms and dedicated to navigating the borderlands of queer and trans Latinidad. With over half a million listens, the podcast has been used as a teaching tool for underrepresented students and has been featured on Hiplatina, Autostraddle, PRIDE.com, GOMAG, and was featured in the 2019 Google Youth Tech Summit.
Jack’s works has been published in The International Journal of Qualitative Methods in Education, Latino Studies, The Journal of LGBT Youth, the Association for Mexican American Educators Journal, Transgender Studies Quarterly and in the anthology: Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention and Deportation.

Info Session for the Central American Studies Minor
2023-02-13 13:00 - 14:00
Mark your calendar and let your friends know that we will be having an Info Session to inform students about the requirements for our Central American Studies minor on Monday, February 13 from 1:00-2:00 pm either in person in Bunche 7386 and via zoom https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3803275880 If you or your friends are looking for a minor, the CAS will be a great minor to add to your academic path–even if you already have an academic minor, find out how you can add an extra minor or maybe a third one!!
We encourage you to attend and mingle with our faculty. We will be having delicious refreshments (first come, first served) for the students who attend in person.
Attend in person: Bunche 7386 or via zoom https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3803275880
Click here to download the Central American Studies Minor Checklist

Virtual Book Talk: Border Women & the Community of Maclovio Rojas
2022-02-04 11:00 - 12:30
Join us for a virtual book talk with Dr. Michelle Téllez on Friday, February 4th from 11:00am – 12:30pm. This event is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and the Center for Mexican Studies.
Dr. Michelle Téllez is Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Arizona. Her scholarly and community-engaged work has been deeply shaped by the experience of growing up along the U.S./Mexico border. Her writings on transnational community formations(and disruptions), Chicana mothering, and gendered migration can be found innumerous anthologies and journals including Gender & Society, Feminist Formations, and Aztlán. Her latest book, Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect was published in September 2021 by the University of Arizona Press.
MEETING ID : 939 2363 9766 | PASSCODE: [REDACTED]
Please contact cs.gradrep@gmail.com or maylei@ucla.edu with any questions.

IAC Fall Forum
2021-11-09 15:00 - 16:00
IAC Fall Forum featuring guest speakers.
UCLA Institute of American Cultures
When: Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 3–4 PM (PST)IAC Fall Forum 2021_Depts flyer[47][88]
RSVP link: https://uclaea.zoom.us/webinar/register/5816343257350/WN_k2pSc104RciBB2KmU1jaJw

Día de los Muertos: Love and Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021-11-01 11:00 - 12:00
You are invited to an online event honoring our ancestors and acknowledging the devastating losses the Latinx and other racialized communities have endured during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
This reflective event will feature artwork, performances, and critical analyses by faculty, students, and community members.
Open to the public!
Register here:
https://bit.ly/2XqWpCP

Virtual Day of the Dead Ritual
2021-10-31 12:00 - 14:00
Join us for an invocation to the four directions and calling of the spirits collective ofrenda guided by Prof. Martha Ramirez- Oropeza.

My mother, the painter: Storytelling in Central American Studies
2021-10-21 13:00 - 14:30
Please join us for the first meeting of the Fall 2021 Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Colloquium, presented by IGS and co-sponsored by the Center for Race & Gender at UC Berkeley. Professor Leisy J. Abrego (UCLA) will give a talk titled “My mother, the painter: Storytelling in Central American Studies.”
For more information on the event: My mother, the painter: Storytelling in Central American Studies | Institute of Governmental Studies – UC Berkeley
This event is virtual and is open to all members of the community. Zoom webinar registration is required. (You must have a Zoom account in order to attend.)
Zoom registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Note: This event is not hosted by UCLA’s Chicano & Central American Studies Department ―One of our department faculty, Leisy J. Abrego, is being featured. If you have questions about this event, please contact the organizer, Christian Paiz for more information (christian.paiz@berkeley.edu).

2021 Virtual Commencement
2021-06-12 10:00 - 12:00
Join us for the CCAS 2021 Virtual Commencement! The commencement webpage will go live at 10:00 am PT on Saturday, June 12. This is a pre-recorded event.

José M. Alamillo presents Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
2021-05-12 15:00 - 16:00
Book Talk: José M. Alamillo presents Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
Please join us online when José M. Alamillo, professor and chair of the Chicana/o Studies Department at CSU Channel Islands, presents his new book, Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Spanning the first half of the twentieth century, Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. Despite a widespread belief that Mexicans shunned physical exercise, teamwork or “good sportsmanship,” they proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels. Professor Alamillo will be introduced by Genevieve Carpio, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA; Rudy Mondragón, doctoral candidate in Chicana/o and Central American studies at UCLA, will moderate the Q&A.
Alamillo was the 2002-2003 Institute of American Cultures visiting scholar at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, where he first started researching sports history. He taught the first Chicanx sports history class at UCLA, “Race, Sport & Recreation in Chicana/o Los Angeles,” in Spring 2003.
This event is organized by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and co-sponsored by the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, the Department of History, and the Center for Mexican Studies. This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jose-m-alamillo-deportes-the-making-of-a-sporting-mexican-diaspora-tickets-152154069919
A Zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before the event. This webinar will be recorded.

Archival Methodologies from an Ethnic Studies Perspective
2021-05-07 10:00 - 11:30
Lonches con CCAS
Dear CCAS cohorts and faculty,
Please join us for a roundtable exploring history, archiving practices, and training in these fields from some of UCLA’s leading scholars, librarians, & graduate students.
The panel will include Dr. Rosie Bermuduez (UC President’s Post-Doctoral Fellow), Dr. Marques Vestal (Assistant Professor, Urban Planning), Dr. Genevieve Carpio (Assistant Professor, CCAS), Xaviera Flores (Librarian & Archivist, CSRC), and Joana Chavez (Graduate Student, CCAS).
Join Zoom Meeting – https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99096405566

Francisco Galarte presents Brown Trans Figurations
2021-05-05 16:00 - 17:30
Queer of Color Genealogies – Spring Book Series
Presentation of Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by Professor Francisco Galarte
Note: This event has passed. Please use the following link to watch the event’s Zoom recording.
Please join us when Professor Francisco J. Galarte, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of New Mexico, discusses their latest book Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies. The event will include a presentation by Professor Galarte and a discussion led by Professor Maylei Blackwell. This event is open to all.
Join the event via Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98970982935?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 989 7098 2935
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theoretical framework to describe how transness and brownness coexist within the larger queer, trans, and Latinx historical experiences.
Brown Trans Figurations presents a collection of representations that reveal the repression of brown trans narratives and make that repression visible and palpable. Galarte examines the violent deaths of two transgender Latinas and the corresponding narratives that emerged about their lives, analyzes the invisibility of brown transmasculinity in Chicana feminist works, and explores how issues such as transgender politics can be imagined as part of Chicanx and Latinx political movements. This book considers the contexts in which brown trans narratives appear, how they circulate, and how they are reproduced in politics, sexual cultures, and racialized economies.

Job Market 101 - Job Market Spring 2021 Series
2021-04-30 11:00 - 12:30
Job Market 101
Dr. Valenzuela, Dr. Johnson, and Dr. Abrego will host the first job market spring series
salon. This salon will cover the nuts and bolts of the job market with the goal of demystifying the search and application process, search committee protocols, and the selection process of the candidate. This series is open to all cohorts of Chicana/o and Central American Studies graduate students.
Zoom Meeting ID: 980 4128 8340

Job Market Spring 2021 Series
2021-04-30 08:00 - 17:00
Lonches con CCAS presents Job Market Spring 2021 Series
Join Lonches con CCAS this quarter for three job market salons. This series is open to all cohorts of Chicana/o & Central American Studies graduate students.
Salon 1 – Job Market 101 – April 30
CCAS faculty hosts will cover the nuts and bolts of the job market. This salon will demystify the application process, search committee protocols, and the selection process of the candidate.
Salon 2 – Becoming a Successful Candidate – May 14
CCAS faculty hosts will provide an overview of a successful candidate. Hosts will discuss the
interview process, campus visits, job talks, teaching demos, and negotiating an offer.
Salon 3 – Alumni Roundtable – May 29
CCAS Alumni will share their job market experience at various institutions. Panelists
will share marketing a CCAS degree and navigating the job process based on their most salient identities.
Please submit questions about the salon topics or for the panelist to series organizers:
Salon 1 – Alana, alana.dehinojosa@ucla.edu
Salon 2 – Lucy, lucialeon@ucla.edu
Salon 3 – Audrey, audrey.silvestre@gmail.com

Queer of Color Genealogies - Spring Book Series
2021-04-21 11:30 - 17:30
Join us for the Queer of Color Genealogies – Spring Book Series hosted by Professor Maylei Blackwell. This series of book talks will feature new titles in Chicanx/Latinx Sexualities.

Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift – April 21st @ 11:30am PT

Presentation by Linda Heidenreich, Associate Professor with the Department of History at Washington State University

Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies – May 5th @ 4:00pm PT

Presentation by Francisco Galarte, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of New Mexico

Queer and Trans Migration: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation – May 12th @ 12:00pm PT

Presentation by Karma Chavez, Associate Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas and Eithne Luibhéid, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona (co-editors)
Rafael Solorzano, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies at Cal State LA, and Jack Caraves, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at San José State University (contributors)

Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance – May 19th @ 4:00pm PT

Presentation by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Each book talk will be hosted at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98970982935?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 989 7098 2935
Passcode: [REDACTED]

L. Heidenreich presents Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift
2021-04-21 11:30 - 13:00
Queer of Color Genealogies – Spring Book Series
Presentation of Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift by Professor Linda Heidenreich
Note: This event has passed. Please use the following link to watch the event’s Zoom recording.
Please join us when Professor Linda Heidenreich, Associate Professor with the Department of History at Washington State University, discusses her latest book Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift. The event will include a presentation by Professor Heidenreich and a discussion led by Professor Maylei Blackwell. This event is open to all.
Join the event via Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98970982935?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 989 7098 2935
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s, one during the turn of the twentieth century and one during the turn of the twenty-first century, to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. To address the erasure of transgender mestiz@ realities from history, Linda Heidenreich employs an intersectional analysis that critiques monopoly and global capitalism. Heidenreich builds on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of nepantleras, those who could live between and embody more than one culture, to coin the term nepantla², marking times of capitalist transition where gender was also in motion. Transgender mestiz@s, too, embodied that movement. Heidenreich insists on a careful examination of the multiple in-between spaces that construct lives between cultures and genders during in-between times of shifting empire and capital. In so doing, they offer an important discussion of race, class, nation, and citizenship centered on transgender bodies of color that challenges readers to rethink the way they understand the gendered social and economic challenges of today.
Linda Heidenreich is an associate professor of history and of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington State University. They are the author of “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern California and coeditor of Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I. Castañeda.

March Lonche con CCAS
2021-03-26 13:00 - 15:00
Join our March Lonches con CCAS with Professors Genevieve Carpio and Laura E. Gomez. Lonches con CCAS is a monthly Brown Bag workshop for CCAS graduate students. Faculty “hosts” guide two CCAS presenters and their attendees through discussions of works-in-progress.
This event will take place on Friday, March 26 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Please join using the following Zoom ID: 993 9046 9146.

Let's Demystify (Writing) the Letter of Recommendation
2021-03-19 11:00 - 13:00
Join us for a skill-building and professional salon hosted by Lonches con CCAS. This event will feature Professors Abel Valenzuela and Maylei Blackwell answering questions like: What content should a letter of recommendation include? When is it appropriate for a Teaching Assistant to co-write a letter of recommendation with the professor?
The event will take place on Friday, March 19 from 11:00am to 1:00pm. Please join using the following Zoom ID: 915 7240 9677.

Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum
2020-11-18 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th @ 3pm for the annual IAC Fall Forum featuring the 2020–21 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. Register @ https://bit.ly/3leyOMz
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Cafecito with Ellie
2020-10-14 15:30 - 16:30
Grab your favorite pan dulce y café! Join us for a virtual hangout with our student advisor and fellow students this Fall quarter.
Cafecito with Ellie will take place three times this Fall quarter: Wednesday, October 14, November 4, and December 2. Each Cafecito will run from 3:30 to 4:30pm via Zoom.
Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3803275880

Book Panel - We are Not Dreamers
2020-10-02 12:00 - 13:30
Please join us in a conversation online (over Zoom) with the book contributors of We are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States.
The widely recognized “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship. While a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to garner political support of undocumented youth, it has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a select group of “deserving” immigrants. The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers—themselves currently or formerly undocumented—poignantly counter the Dreamer narrative by grappling with the nuances of undocumented life in this country. Theorizing those excluded from the Dreamer category—academically struggling students, transgender activists, and queer undocumented parents—the contributors call for an expansive articulation of immigrant rights and justice that recognizes the full humanity of undocumented immigrants while granting full and unconditional rights. Illuminating how various institutions reproduce and benefit from exclusionary narratives, this volume articulates the dangers of the Dreamer narrative and envisions a different way forward.
Book Contributors:
Dr. Leisy Abrego, Professor and Chair Core Faculty, Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA
Dr. Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Associate Professor, Leadership Studies, University of San Francisco
Joel Sati, PhD student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at UC Berkeley and JD candidate at the Yale Law School
Dr. Carolina Valdivia, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, UCLA
Discussant:
Dr. Frances Contreras
Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UC San Diego and Professor, Education Studies, UC San Diego.

Virtual Funding Workshop
2020-10-02 11:00 - 13:00
Interested in learning more about the Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM), Graduate Research Mentorship (GRM), Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF) and other extramural funding opportunities? Want to know what it takes to make a successful proposal? Come to our workshop via Zoom!
The workshop will take place Friday, October 2nd from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
RSVP here.
Zoom link.

Open House
2020-09-30 14:00 - 15:00
We invite you to attend our Open House via Zoom. This is a great opportunity to meet staff, professors, teaching assistants, and fellow students. Join us to learn more about the department, future classes, resources, and much more!
RSVP: https://forms.gle/CAf8gzUHJKHh2vEx9
Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3803275808
