race and ethnicity

Renee Tajima-Peña, who will present her landmark 1987 documentary at the Academy Museum on Dec. 4, discusses her filmmaking and activism.

National survey of high school principals found that political conflict leads to declines in support for teaching about race, racism, and racial and ethnic diversity.

Kelly Lytle Hernández’s ‘Bad Mexicans’ comes at a time when L.A.’s politics reckon with racism.

Q&A with the associate vice chancellor for EDI, who is a renowned scholar on the effectiveness of diversity initiatives on college campuses.

The trailblazing screenwriter’s teleplay will be shown at the Hammer Museum at UCLA for the first time in decades.

UCLA staff members recommend works for education and entertainment to celebrate throughout November.

California legislators have invested $15 million in the Latina Futures, 2050 Lab and $1.5 million in the Hollywood Diversity Report.

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities recognizes school as an Innovation & Prosperity University for commitment to region, workforce.

The California Freedom Summer united University of California campuses, community colleges and community groups to register or pre-register more than 5,000 new voters.

Shirlee Smith wants you to know about the Black community that used to live in the neighborhood: ‘We were there.’

As Native American Heritage Month begins, Newsroom spoke to the two scholars about their new role as special advisors to the chancellor.

Past injustices like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study are less likely to spark mistrust than poor interactions with physicians, UCLA psychologists say.

A UCLA report examines demographic and socioeconomic changes among Latino groups from between 2000 and 2020.

The latest Hollywood Diversity Report from UCLA signals potential challenges ahead in writers’ rooms.

Patricia Turner discusses her new book, “Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century”

A thousand students, faculty and staff attended the “Sembrando Comunidad” event, which was part of campus efforts to earn the Hispanic-Serving Institution designation.

Greg Sarris, tribal chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, will speak at the law school on Indigenous People’s Day, Oct. 10.

Immigration scholar Chris Zepeda-Millán draws inspiration from his grandparents and the migrant workers he’s met along his career.

With the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative education looming, Gary Orfield’s book calls for race-conscious policies that can open the doors to educational opportunity for all.

Preliminary findings from UCLA’s 2022 California Health Interview Survey also show drop in risk-reduction behaviors.

Visits to a migrant shelter and job training center illuminated how racial and labor justice intersect across borders.

The senior administrator of campus initiatives at the Chicano Studies Research Center helps lead efforts to become a Hispanic-Serving Institution.

A UCLA report looks at why Latinas left their jobs in large numbers during the pandemic and strategies for bringing them back into the workforce.

The short documentary “Chicano Moratorium” captures the brutal police response to protests against the Vietnam War.

Most of these appointments will be in the four ethnic studies centers that make up the Institute of American Cultures.