Alumni of Color Initiative
U.S. Latino Studies
The U.S. Latino Studies Program focuses on the issues and subjects involving the U.S. Latino population. An endowed fund will support research and teaching of topics related to the U.S. Latino population, such as the oral history project currently under way examining the Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States between 1942 and 1964. The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, home of the U.S. Latino Studies Program, facilitates teaching, research, and conferences on issues affecting African American, Asian American, Latino, Native American, Middle Eastern, biracial and multiracial peoples. It also houses Ethnic Studies, an interdisciplinary and comparative concentration that examines the construction of race and ethnicity in social, cultural, historical, political, and economic contexts.
“We are on the verge of creating one of the most innovative and exciting Latino studies programs anywhere in the country.”
Evelyn Hu-Dehart, P’MAT’06
Director, Center for the Study of
Race & Ethnicity in America
Endowed Program Fund for U.S. Latino Studies
Goal: $100,000 +
Your gift of any amount to this fund will support the study and research by both faculty and students of social issues, cultural representations, and historical subjects involving the Latino population in the United States.
“We do a lot of service learning: we don’t just give students books and tell them what history is, we show them what it is by taking them into the field.”
Matthew Garcia
Associate Professor of American
Civilization, History, and Race and Ethnic Studies
“When I would speak to the Braceros in my field research, they were telling me part of my history, because I’m Mexican-American, too.”
Veronica Cortez ’08
Featured Gift Opportunities
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$2.5 million
Help us meet this goal for the Annual Fund's Investment in Diversity -
$250,000
Help us endow one Inman Page Black Alumni Council Scholarship -
$100,000
Help us meet our goal to endow a program fund for U.S. Latino Studies -
Gifts of any amount are welcome!
Did you know that you can allocate your Brown Annual Fund gift to Investment in Diversity?To learn more about Campaign Gift Opportunities, call 1 (800) 662-2266 or email us.
