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Dec 30, 2017

Professor Emeritus Norma Klahn (Literature) and Professor Emeritus Pedro Castillo (History) are the co-founders of UC Santa Cruz's Chicano Latino Research Center (CLRC). They also served as the Center's first co-directors in the 1990s. The CLRC is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year (2017) and the opening of its...


Dec 29, 2017

Professor Beth Currans is the author of a new book called Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Activists Transform Public Space (University of Illinois Press). She is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Eastern Michigan University. We discussed her major research...


Dec 3, 2017

Chris Zepeda-Millan is the author of a new book called Latino Mass
Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism (2017, Cambridge University Press).  Dr. Zepeda-Millan is an assistant professor in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.  We discussed his book's major findings, about his views...


Nov 28, 2017

The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue is a multi-year public history project involving professors and undergraduate student researchers. As the project director, UC Santa Cruz Professor Alan Christy spoke about the extent of military occupation of Okinawa today, about Charles Eugene Gail (the namesake of...


Nov 17, 2017

Originally aired on Talkabout, August 16. 2017. Mairo Kuntze interviews comic book shop owner and musician Joe Ferrara, who tells stories of working with "The Lost Boys" cast, as well as being acquainted with artists before they became famous such as Adam Scott and Juice...