LOS ANGELES — Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña, a pioneering political activist, academic and historian who founded one of the first Chicano Studies programs offered by a major U.S. university, has died at 93.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evan Vásquez-Gómez looks through a cabinet that contained papers belonging to her father, Chicano studies historian Juan ...

Slated to open next year, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum — or “The Cheech” for short — will explore the breadth of Chicano culture, from ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) - A New Mexico Hispanic leader upset about the removal of Spanish conquistador monuments is pushing for the state to end its support for Chicano and Native American Studies. In a ...

Students and professors alike in Chicano Studies at Stanford are hoping to expand the program, which they argue is under-resourced and would help increase faculty diversity if grown. The Chicano ...

After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...

The pioneering Chicano studies scholar, who died in March, reshaped the writing of history. Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña, circa 1969. They told us this was history. From elementary school through college, ...

With more than 50 years of experience under the program’s belt, Cal State Fullerton’s Chicana and Chicano Studies Department is pioneering a new era of Latin American studies. The program, whose ...

PHOENIX (AP) - A group of Chicano Studies professors has launched a program to offer free Chicano Studies classes amid the pandemic. MeXicanos 2070 this week began holding virtual courses through ...

Third-year University of Minnesota Ph.D. student Kiara Padilla spent eight hours at the University’s Elmer L. Andersen Library combing through boxes of historical documents to share with artists in an ...