Latin American and Latino Studies

Kids in Charge

LALS Associate Professor Jessica Taft has spent more than a decade studying youth activism

Human Rights Lab

Led by LALS Associate Professor Sylvanna Falcón, director of the Research Center for the Americas

Major in LALS at UCSC

Learn more about Latin American and Latino Studies and our combination majors with politics and sociology

Graduate Study

LALS graduate student explores his interest in history, anthropology and ethnographic studies

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NEWS & EVENTS

January 24, 2020Graduate student funds for travel to Latin America available through RCA
December 12, 2019Raising awareness of ‘deficit thinking’
December 2, 2019Nine UCSC speakers join TEDx Santa Cruz extravaganza Dec. 7

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

LALS and Politics alumnus Ricardo Garcia will lead a team of 1,200 in the LA Public Defender's Office, including 750 attorneys. Read the whole article here.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Chicana Feminisms - Gabriela Arredondo and Pat Zavella

New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights - Sylvanna Falcón

The Woman in The Zoot Suit - Catherine Ramirez

I'm Neither Here nor There - Pat Zavella

RESEARCH / CREATIVE WORK

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