Political Education
Mural Credit: "Education through Struggle", painted in 1995 by Darryl Mar, lead artist and UCLA AAS MA alumni and student members of Concerned Asian Pacific Students for Action and other supporters. It is located at the Asian American Studies Center in UCLA's Campbell Hall third floor. Learn more.
The University of California Ethnic Studies Council is a collaborative forum for addressing the varied needs on each campus – both those with fully established departments as well as those in the process of developing new ethnic studies programs and curricula. Membership is available to all UC faculty currently teaching in UC Ethnic Studies departments or units.
The UC Ethnic Studies Council is an alliance of all Ethnic Studies discipline focused departments, programs and faculty across our 10 campuses.
Find more information here: https://www.ucethnicstudiesfacultycouncil.org/
Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (LESMC) Coalition
The LESMC vision is to promote the advancement and implementation of well designed Ethnic Studies courses and programs for the purpose of advancing students’ academic achievement, educational equity, community activist scholarship, and community leadership skills. Visit http://www.liberatedethnicstudies.org/ for more information.
Reflection: Police Brutality Protest in New York Chinatown, 1975 (2018), Hồng-Ân Trương, Image courtesy of Rubber Factory Gallery and the artist.
Refugee Returns: Solidarity, Pandemic, and Temporal Intimacies in the Belly of the Beast
In February 2020, Hồng-Ân Trương joined the Center for Racial Justice, with support from Art+Design Placemaking, for Refugee Returns, a series of presentations and conversations about war, race, knowledge production, and political solidarity. After her visit, Trương (digitally) sat down with Trung P.Q. Nguyen, Ph.D. Candidate in History of Consciousness and Managing Editor of Critical Ethnic Studies journal, to discuss her work, temporal doubling, national belonging, the boiling point of the pandemic and racial solidarity in moments of historical crisis. Click here to read the interview.
Detail of installation of The opposite of looking is not invisibility. The opposite of yellow is not gold. (2016), Hương Ngô & Hồng-Ân Trương, Image courtesy of the artists.
Detail of installation of The opposite of looking is not invisibility. The opposite of yellow is not gold. (2016), Hương Ngô & Hồng-Ân Trương, Image courtesy of the artists.