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Considering the broad and wide implications of the Chicana and Chicano Studies (CCS) program at The University of New Mexico, it’s no wonder that the department’s goal for CCS graduate studies degrees has been received with such resounding...

Chicano culture runs deep in New Mexico. It’s in the food, the politics, the music, the art – shaping nearly every corner of the state and flowing through the veins of many who call the Land of Enchantment home. That tremendous influence is what’s...

It’s been about a year since the Chicana & Chicano Studies (CCS) program became an official department at The University of New Mexico. But, in that short amount of time, the unit has undertaken its first self-study and external review, shedding light on some impressive gains.

When Faculty Senate met last month to vote to designate Chicana and Chicano Studies a department, more than 100 people congregated in the hallway waiting anxiously to hear the result of the vote. When it was approved, the crowd erupted in jubilation. No...

The UNM Faculty Senate meets on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 2:30 p.m. in the Scholes Hall Roberts room. The senate votes on a variety of academic program revisions, as well as a vote to designate the Chicana and Chicano Studies program as a...

Nationally syndicated cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz speaks at the University of New Mexico on Thursday, Sept. 26, from 5:30 - 7 p.m. in the Honda Auditorium, located in George Pearl Hall, corner of Central and Cornell NE.  Join Chicana and Chicano Studies, ...

Reynaldo Macias presents,"Entre el Dicho y el Hecho: Xican@ Studies in 50 Years," on Thursday, Feb. 28 from 4 - 5:30 p.m. in the Ortega Hall Reading Room 335 on the University of New Mexico campus. Katarina Sandoval, Principal of South Valley Academy and ...

The American Studies and Chicana and Chicano Studies hosts day-long symposium, "Everyday Practices of Popular Power: Art, Media and Immigration," Friday, Nov. 9, to convene "artivists," students, educators and community members to discuss recent works by ...

Communication and collaboration can often be as difficult to organize in a large university as it is in establishing agreements between nations. At UNM, El Centro de la Raza, the Hispanic student support department; Chicano/Hispano/Mexicano Studies, the ...

Levi Romero, research scholar, Chicano Hispano Mexico Studies, at the University of New Mexico, taught a course, "New Mexico Villages and Culture" this spring. The Digital Cuentos project is a compilation of audio visual narratives published by students ...