Department of Ethnic Studies

UC Berkeley doctoral candidates Ataya Cesspooch and Sierra Edd and doctoral student Breylan Martin published a collective statement Nov. 11 about campus associate professor Elizabeth Hoover, who released a statement Oct. 20 rescinding her previous claim to Native American ancestry.

Over the past 150 years, UC Berkeley has made efforts to support women through its curriculum and school resources, but many still feel there is work to be done.

UC Berkeley’s department of ethnic studies commemorated the 50th anniversary of its founding with a two-day symposium Thursday and Friday, which included panels presented by ethnic studies scholars.

What renders the store unique among myriad independent bookstores in Berkeley — or even booksellers in general — is its niche focus. 

Michael Bakal, a UC Berkeley doctoral student funded by the Center for Latin American Studies and a researcher taking part in an ongoing project in Guatemala, has suggested that climate change could fuel currents of northward immigration in his research.

One hundred and thirty people gathered Saturday at the campus Multicultural Community Center to commemorate the TWLF strikes that first took place in 1968 at San Francisco State University and then at UC Berkeley in 1969.

DeCals create a space for diversity in teaching — a space where student voices can be heard in regard to what they believe is pertinent, important and largely ignored in academia.

It began when students who held a rally commemorating the 30th anniversary of the creation of UC Berkeley’s ethnic studies programs moved in mass to Barrows and locked its front doors with chains.

Today, Christ says that she wouldn’t have addressed the protest in the same way.

UC Berkeley has a long history of student activism, from the Free Speech Movement to the campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa.