Tag: Sal Castro

5th Bi-Annual Sal Castro Memorial Conference (Feb. 28-29) to explore the growing scholarship of the Chicano Movement

By Jim Logan • UCSB SANTA BARBARA — When teacher and activist Sal Castro encouraged students in Los Angeles to protest what they saw as decades of substandard education for Mexican-American youths, he helped kicked off what was then the…

UCSB Conference on Feb. 21-22 to examine the historiography of the Chicano Movement

Special guest panel will discuss ‘The Blowout Generation and Sal Castro’ By Andrea Estrada / UCSB In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools to protest decades of inferior or discriminatory education…

Commentary: Odds and ends

A hero in Boston, diversity on cable news networks, death of a Chicano activist and support for a new Latino-focused movie By Frank X. Moraga / Amigos805 With the week rapidly drawing to a close, this seems like a good…