Learning to Lead: Grassroots Organizing in Immigrant Communities Join the CSRC Director Veronica Terriquez, professor of urban planning and Chicana/o and Central American studies, as she discusses her new book, Learning to Lead: Youth Organizing in Immigrant Communities (Russell Sage Foundation, 2026). Learning to Lead draws on Terriquez’s 25 years of working alongside youth, including multiple sources...
In Conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley Tejasvi Nagaraja discusses his book, Troop Movements, exploring how mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the political movements that defined the postwar period, linking racial, economic, and international issues. Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Location: Bunche 6275 (History Conference Room)
Film Screening + Director Q&A Please join us for a special screening of There Are No Words by Korean Canadian filmmaker Min Sook Lee, followed by a Q&A with the director and Professor Gina Kim from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television. About The Film In this deeply personal documentary, Lee investigates the silences...
Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine examines how a cohort of young Jewish radicals from Eastern Europe helped reshape multiracial left-wing activism in Southern California. It traces their migration from the Russian Empire to Los Angeles and their involvement in labor and left-wing movements. Focusing especially on Boyle Heights, the book explores how the neighborhood’s diverse...
A SLAVE NEXT DOOR: Eudocia Pulido and the Justification of Slavery In 2017, Alex Tizon confessed in The Atlantic that his family had kept Eudocia Tomas Pulido, known as Lola, as an unpaid servant for 56 years. Many readers were outraged. Yet the historian Vicente Rafael defended the arrangement as Philippine culture, and People magazine portrayed...