Publication Date
9-2020
Collaborators
Creative Works Robert E. Kennedy Library, Ethnic Studies Department
Graphic Design
Sasha Menshikova
Illustrations
Sasha Menshikova
Digital Book Assembly
Catherine J. Trujillo
Editors
Grace Yeh, Catherine J. Trujillo
Design for Digital Edition
Catherine Trujillo
Resesarch and additional contributors
Isabella Paoletto (Journalism, Comparative Ethnic Studies, ‘19), Julia Galvan (History, Comparative Ethnic Studies, ‘20), Katie Kleis (Comparative Ethnic Studies, ‘20), Cecilia Voigt (Graphic Communication, ‘19), Juliana Garcia (Agricultural Science, ‘21), Sasha Menshikova (ART, ‘20)
Program
Faculty Exhibit Program
Abstract
This project commemorates 50 years of Ethnic Studies student activism and the program’s development. In 1968, students protested across the nation and at Cal Poly against institutionalized racism and educational inequities, leading to the establishment of the first Ethnic Studies programs. Cal Poly’s Ethnic Studies Department was created in Fall 1969 as a culmination of these students’ efforts to recruit and retain students and faculty of color and to transform the curriculum to serve the community. The department disappeared in the 1980s but, again, through student organizing and movement building, was reborn 25 years ago in 1994. This catalog represents the onsite exhibit from 2019 of the same name.
Document Type
Catalog
Recommended Citation
Yeh, Grace and Trujillo, Catherine, "Here for a Reason: 1969 to 2019 - Fifty Years of Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly" (2020). Creative Works. 5.
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/creativeworks/5