During the Spring quarter of 2020, I taught a special topics course for UCSD Latin American Studies about the 50th anniversary of San Diego’s Chicano Park. The class was going to be convened in the Park, at the base of the new mural dedicated to the memory of Anastasio Hernández Rojas. Our class meetings would …
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The UCSD Latin American Studies program opened a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) course during the Winter Quarter of 2019. Titled LATI 10: Latin American Studies and U.S. Liberation Movements, “the purpose of this class is to study the multilayered relations between Latin America and U.S. Liberation movements, particularly Third World movements, the Chicano Movement, the Black …
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On October 24 I took my LATI 10 students on a trip to visit Chicano Park. After a brief historical summary and mural tour, we took a walk down Logan Ave for some limonada and a few tacos al pastor. There was a consensus among my students that they had a great time. For most …
