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Spring 2026

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K(no)w History K(no)w Self: The Origins of Chicanx Studies at Cal

Christian Paiz - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The University of California, Berkeley played a critical role in the development of Chicanx Studies and in the student, community, and labor activism that fostered the field’s expansion in the mid-to-late twentieth century. This apprenticeship project asks: what goals, contexts, and visions inspired early Chicano/a scholars at...

 Social Sciences

The Strikers of Coachella - A Video and Social Media Project

Christian Paiz - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This apprenticeship focuses on farmworker history in the Coachella Valley, a small agricultural desert in Southern California. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Coachella Valley played a critical role in the development, successes, and challenges of the United Farm Worker (UFW) movement, one of the most important agricultural labor movements...

 Social Sciences

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