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The 1969 strike at UC Berkeley was just the beginning of Oliver Jones’s battles
February 5, 2019
By John Hickey There’s a black-and-white photograph, 50 years old now, that Oliver Jones keeps close at hand. Taken in 1969 at UC Berkeley at the height of the Third World Liberation Front strike, it shows a large group of TWLF activists, a coalition of ethnic groups pushing for more...
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Ethnic Studies Alumna Barbara Jane Reyes’ Book Invocation to Daughters is a 2019 Amelia Bloomer Booklist Best Feminist Book for Young Readers
February 1, 2019
https://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/2019-amelia-bloomer-list/
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Mixed Genre Writing by Professor Beth Piatote Is Featured in KROnline
January 25, 2019
https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2019-janfeb/selections/beth-h-piatote-649334/
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Ethnic Studies Alum, Craig Santos Perez, Nominated for the 2019 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Award
January 24, 2019
https://www.cgu.edu/news/2019/01/17502/
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Professor Christian Paiz and Ethnic Studies Students Featured in Story on Coachella Valley Youth at UC Berkeley
January 24, 2019
https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/01/24/couple-builds-bridge-to-berkeley-for-coachella-valleys-brightest-neediest-youth/
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Seeking Study Group Facilitators for SLC Social Science
December 6, 2018
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Professor Christian Paiz is featured in the PBS docu-special “The Other Side of Coachella.”
December 3, 2018
Professor Christian Paiz is featured in the PBS docu-special "The Other Side of Coachella." This docu-special highlights the Coachella Valley community, and how with support from the organization Building Healthy Communities, community members and local groups have formed an alliance to tackle issues of Health, Education and Environment. https://www.pbs.org/video/the-other-side-of-coachella-ocxp6r/
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Advocating for the Sacred in the Digital Age
November 29, 2018
Melissa Stoner Native American Studies Librarian Ethnic Studies Library In this digital age when some people are asking whether libraries are needed any more, Melissa Stoner can’t imagine life without them. “My aunt worked in the library at the elementary school that I went to. I went to the library...
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UC Berkeley faculty and a librarian share book picks for Native American Heritage Month
November 16, 2018
Native American Heritage Month was a long time coming. In the 1910s, Red Fox James embarked on a state-to-state sojourn on horseback to solicit support for a single day honoring Native Americans, ultimately presenting endorsements from 24 governors to the White House. But it wasn’t until 1990 that President George...
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Preserving Native American culture, from Standing Rock to Berkeley
November 13, 2018
By John Hickey Melissa Stoner and Howard Nez Sr. are related by blood, and always have been. Now more than ever, they’ve also been related by language. He was a language warrior. She is a literary warrior. For his part, Nez was a Navajo code talker. His granddaughter is a...
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