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CENTER CELEBRATES 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
2009 marks 20 years of CLPR's commitment to public service through Latino policy research. The Center will be leading various fundraising efforts and celebratory events to commemorate this achievement.
The first kick off event is CRE8, led by established local artists and supporters who are working together to commemorate the contribution of CLPR faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff to the study of critical issues facing Latinos.
Dr. Blanca Gordo partnered with Kelly Vaagsland, owner of Messy Monkey Arts and CRE8, Dalila Solis, independent artist, and Svea Lin Vezzone, Director of Swarm Gallery, to plan this fundraising and entertainment activity. CRE8 is a “live art show” where eight high profile artists paint eight canvases in eight minutes with different large, everyday utensils, such as turkey basters, brooms, hard hats (with paint brushes screwed on), or, the participant’s own feet. The paintings will be auctioned during the event.
Salómon Huerta, Maceo Montoya, María Sánchez, and Ellen Fernandez-Sacco are some of several artists participating in this event.
Come CRE8 with CLPR on Cesar Chavez Day, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 from 7-9pm at Swarm Gallery in Oakland, CA.
The Center’s fundraising activities will benefit collaborative interdisciplinary research and mechanisms for an effective exchange of ideas. The leadership is interested in enhancing the training programs and opportunities CLPR offers students.
CLPR History
The roots of the Center can be traced to the spring of 1986 through the creation of the working committee that developed the concept for the Chicano/Latino Policy Project, later renamed the Center for Latino Policy Research. With sponsorship from the Berkeley Program in Mexican Studies, UC Berkeley faculty initiated an effort to coordinate high quality interdisciplinary research and training on policy relevant issues related to the Chicano/Latino population in the United States. Three years later, in March 1989, the Project was officially approved by the campus administration and affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Social Change.
The Project’s pioneers broke new ground when they instituted the Center for Latino Policy Research at UCB. The Project was then governed by a Faculty Steering Committee which included Joe Martinez, Margarita Melville, Alex Saragoza, Guadalupe Valdez, and Martín Sánchez-Jankowski served as Chair.
For nearly twenty years, CLPR scholars have played a central role in advancing the intellectual and empirical record on the demographic changes of California society and patterns of persistent inequity for Latinos. They have advanced current knowledge on a number of policy concerns related to Latinos, such as education, immigration, political participation and civic engagement, public health, and others. The Center has also added teaching and research offerings related to Latino policy issues and have exercised leadership in furthering public understanding of domestic policy and the development trajectory of Latinos in United States.
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A Teach-In on Immigrant Students and Their Struggle to Create Political Change
Thursday, October 16th, 2008, 6 PM
MLK Jr. Student Union (Bancroft at Telegraph)
Tan Oak Room, 4th Floor
Find out about the growing student movement around access to higher education for undocumented students. This event will feature the authors of a new student publication, Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out. In the book, eight students tell their personal stories of the pain, financial hardship and emotional distress they face as undocumented immigrant students – but also their ultimate triumph when they graduate. UC Berkeley students and staff will also speak out at the event, and provide information about the recent court case challenging AB 540, Cal organizations that advocate for undocumented students’ rights, and how students can get involved in the struggle to create political change.
Featured speakers include:
Joel Aguilar, Organizer with UC Berkeley RISE
María Blanco, Executive Director, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Diversity and Ethnicity
Matias Ramos, UCLA recent graduate whose story is featured in the book Underground Undergrads
Kent Wong, Director, UCLA Labor Center
Sponsored by UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, Rising Immigrant Scholars Through Education (RISE), Xinaxtli, Center for Latino Policy Research, Center for Latin American Studies and Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Diversity and Ethnicity
Information: 510-642-6371; andreabuffa@berkeley.edu; http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu
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Click above to order a copy of Martín Sánchez-Jankowski's new book.
Abstract:
Professor Sanchez-Jankowski's new book is an ethnographic study of poor
neighborhoods in New York and Los Angeles that challenges much
prevailing wisdom about urban poverty, shedding new light on the people,
institutions, and culture in these communities. Looking at five
community mainstays—the housing project, the small grocery store, the
barbershop and the beauty salon, the gang, and the local high school--he
discovered how these institutions provide a sense of order, continuity,
and stability in places often thought to be chaotic, disorganized, and
disheartened.
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Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, a Professor in the Department of Sociology
at UC Berkeley, taught at Wellesley College and the University of New
Mexico before coming to Berkeley in 1984. He received his B.A. from
Western Michigan University, M.A. from Dalhousie University in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in political science and economics. His research has focused
on inequality in advanced and developing societies with a particular
interest in the sociology of poverty. His early research was on
understanding how young Mexican Americans are socialized into the United
States political system and the factors that influence the process. Some
of the results of this research are reported in City Bound: Urban Life
and Political Attitudes Among Chicano Youth (1986). His later research
has been directed toward understanding the social arrangements and
behavior of people living in poverty. The first study of this research
project was focused on urban gangs and the results were published in
Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society (1991).
Subsequent studies have been directed at education, some of the results
being reported in a book co-authored with five other Berkeley faculty
entitled Inequality By Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (1996);
underground economy; social change; and violence. His current field
research includes the study of education among the poor and economic
behavior among indigenous people in Fiji.
*Deborah McKoy* is the Director and Founder of the UC Berkeley Center
for Cities and Schools at the Institute of Urban and Regional
Development. She has a Master's
Degree in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University and
a Ph.D. in Educational Policy from UC Berkeley. She has worked at the
intersection of urban policy and education for fifteen years at national
and international levels. Her research looks at the intersection of
educational reform, community development and public policy. Her recent
publications include: "Understanding the Housing-Schools Nexus:
Integrating housing and educational policy and practice to improve
neighborhoods and schools", in the book A History of Housing
Discrimination: An Examination of Barriers and Efforts to Achieve an
Inclusive Society (National Fair Housing Alliance 2007) and "Engaging
Schools in Urban Revitalization: The Y-PLAN (Youth – Plan, Learn, Act,
Now!)" Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2007. Previous
professional positions include: Chief of Economic Development and
Training at the NYC Housing Authority; Director of Refugee Services for
a NYC non-profit organization, CAMBA; Consultant to the UN's Education
For All initiative, and Research Associate at the National Center for
Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE).
For more information contact Usree Bhattacharya at the Institute for the
Study of Social Change, (510) 642-0813; or email
ubhattacharya@berkeley.edu.
Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
