UCLA’s new chair of Chicana/o and Central American studies sees universal lessons in highlighting the omissions and silences surrounding the history of the Americas.
Despite the progress, Latinos’ narratives and experiences remain largely invisible in both authorship and editorial content, according to a UCLA study.
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi teaches a course that looks at how and why their memory is silenced, and how cultural memory can push back against state-imposed forgetting.