Resources & Affiliated Organizations
Dignidad Rebelde
A graphic arts collaboration between Oakland-based artists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. They believe that art can be an empowering reflection of community struggles, dreams and visions. Following principles of Xicanisma and Zapatismo, they create work that amplifies people’s stories and to create art that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.
Otay Mesa Detention Resistance
Migrant Solidarity- A group of local community members organizing against the inhumane detentions and human rights abuses at Otay Mesa Detention Center.
Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer
Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA) is a collaborative partnership between the Chicana/o Studies Program at the University of California, Davis and the greater Woodland community. TANA offers a fully functioning silkscreen studio, Chicano/Latino Arts exhibition space, and a teaching center for the arts.
La Casa de la Raza -
Santa Barbara
La Casa de la Raza was founded in 1971 to provide a nonprofit community center on the Eastside of Santa Barbara. The mission of La Casa de la Raza is to develop and empower the Latino community by affirming and preserving the Latino cultural heritage, providing an umbrella for services and by advocating for participation in the larger community.
CSUCI Chicana/o Studies
The Chicana/o Studies at CSU Channel Islands is dedicated to the study of the Mexican and Latin American origin population in the United States, their history, culture, and contemporary social issues.
UCSB Multicultural Center
In 1987, UCSB students of color, who were then severely underrepresented at the University demanded the creation of a hospitable and safe space for their use. Such a space was intended to facilitate the retention and recruitment of students of color and to combat institutional racism and ethnocentrism. These aims were to be realized in part through educational programming, which would promote changes in attitudes and behaviors throughout the campus community.
La Red Xicana Indigena
Working for social justice and raising Indigenous consciencia spanning from the most personal site of the familias in our own communities to the hemispheric level of a growing continental and global Indigenous peoples movement.