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Latino Excellence and Achievement Awards Dinner ♥ ★

Pacific Ballroom, UCI Student Center 311 W Peltason Dr, Irvine

Save the date for the 6th annual Latino Excellence and Achievement Dinner (LEAD) on April 6, 2023, at the Pacific Ballroom, UCI Student Center. Reception will begin at 6 p.m.  LEAD honors key leaders, graduate students, staff and faculty who support and champion student success and research excellence in the Hispanic/Latinx community at UCI and…

Ramón Gutiérrez, “New Mexico’s Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement” ♥

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A presentation of the Reimagining the Latinx Experience in America book talk series In New Mexico’s Moses, Ramón A. Gutiérrez dives deeply into Reies López Tijerina’s religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how his Pentecostal foundation remained an integral part of his psyche even as he migrated toward social-movement politics. An Assemblies of God…

Racism and Segregation in Orange County: Virtual Book Talk ♥★

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Join UCI Libraries to learn how one Japanese American family’s unlawful incarceration during World War II led to California’s landmark school desegregation lawsuit in the 1940s. This uniquely American story celebrates how the Munemitsu and Mendez families persevered in the face of widespread, state-sanctioned racism in the 1940s. The intertwining stories of these two immigrant…