David K. Yoo, Vice Provost, UCLA Institute of American Cultures

On Saturday, May 18, 2019, UCLA will officially launch its centennial during Alumni Weekend. As UCLA turns 100 years old, the Institute of American Cultures and the ethnic studies centers celebrate fifty years (1969-2019). This convergence of timelines can be seen from multiple angles, but I would like to highlight a couple of themes. The first is that UCLA is a university with a public mission. That mission involves many things, but certainly a core element is that the university exists for the people of California – all the peoples of California, especially for those whose access to higher education has been severely diminished by structural forms of inequality. The flip side, dramatically played out in recent news about college admissions, is that structural forms of inequality are also about structural forms of privilege and power.

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Carrying Our Ancestors Home

Join the UCLA American Indian Studies Center (AISC) for the launch of the new digital project, "Carrying our Ancestors Home." Hear about the land acknowledgement and its importance in engaging a new path forward with tribal communities.

Asian American Studies Center addresses unique plight of today’s immigrant

America as a land of hope and refuge for the persecuted and oppressed is the subject of two talks hosted by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (AASC). Learn more about the Stanley Kwok Lau & Dora Wong Lau Distinguished Lecture Series through the links below.

"Mother of Exiles" Refugees in American Myth and History by Professor Mae Ngai (pictured)

Southeast Asian Deportation Awareness

Historian named director of UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

The UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernandez has been named director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, effective July 2019.

Collisions at the Crossroads

The Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) congratulates Genevieve Carpio, assistant professor of Chicana/o studies and CSRC faculty advisory committee member, on the publication of her first book, Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (University of California Press, 2019). Carpio examines how the ability or inability of people to travel influenced the racial formation of Los Angeles’s eastern suburbs as well as the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Book signing and reception 4:00–6:00 p.m., Thurs., May 30, in the CSRC Library (Haines 144).