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Chon Noriega in UCLA Newsroom: “Eight UCLA professors awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships”

UCLA led all universities and academic institutions in 2021 with eight professors selected to receive fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Chon Noriega, distinguished professor of film, television and digital media has been named a fellow.

Kelly Lytle Hernandez in Los Angeles Times: “Here’s the complete list of virtual panels for the 2021 Festival of Books”

April 23rd at 1 p.m.: Gustavo Arellano in conversation with California MacArthur Fellows Gustavo Arellano, Times California columnist and host of an upcoming daily news podcast from The Times, will chat with recent MacArthur fellows Natalia Molina (2020) and Kelly Lytle Hernandez (2019) for a discussion about the historical roots of our immigration policy and the evolution … Continued

David Hayes-Bautista in USA Today: “California Latinos ‘Multiple’ Times More Likely to die Than Whites”

“What was astounding was that in every age group, the Latino death rate was multiple times higher than white – multiple,” said Dr. David Hayes-Bautista. “Given that we see basically on both ends of the country – California and New York – fairly similar patterns, I would right now be very comfortable generalizing it out to … Continued

Cecilia Menjívar in Mother Jones: “What We Should Talk About When We Talk About Root Causes of Migration”

Cecilia Menjívar, a professor of sociology at UCLA points out that the conversation around “root causes of migration” often ignores the key role the United States has historically played in creating and perpetuating some of these very drivers of migration it now is attempting to mitigate. “You can’t leave that part out,” she says.

Will Arizona follow Georgia on voting restrictions‪?‬

“All of these voter suppression bills are coming at a time, and in jurisdictions, where we saw growth in the electorate, particularly amongst Latino voters,” says Sonja Diaz.

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