Our Story: José Luis Sámano & Ema Pérez
José Luis Sámano was born in Irapuato, Guanajuato on March 26, 1939. He remained there for the first six years of his life. “It was a great time,” he said…
Latinx Studies Minor Announced
The Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies (IRES) Department recently announced the addition of a Latinx Studies minor for undergraduates. Laura Pulido, head of IRES, says, “We were delighted to learn…
Latino Roots Celebration
This Latino Roots Celebration will mark the fifth time UO students from Latino Roots classes (Anthro/SOJC) present their ethnographic documentaries to peers, faculty, staff, and community members. Zoom details will…
Latino Roots Class Makes Documentaries through Remote Teaching
“Rich and crazy” is how Sergio B. Sanchez describes the street art he observed growing up in his Chicano community of Santa Ana, California. Sanchez is now a University of…
Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria Provides Ethnic Studies Lesson
From Oregon Quarterly, Summer 2019https://around.uoregon.edu/oq/puerto-rico-s-hurricane-maria-provides-ethnic-studies-lesson When UO ethnic studies associate professor Alaí Reyes-Santos flipped on the late-night news on September 19, 2017, she saw something she’d been dreading since childhood:…