Hispanic Heritage Month features UCI’s Vicki Ruiz
Hispanic Heritage Month features UCI’s Vicki Ruiz
- October 3, 2015
- Vicki Ruiz, Chicano/Latino studies and history Distinguished Professor, is featured by NBC Oct. 3, 2015
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From NBC:
Doctor Vicki Lynn Ruiz … receiving one of the highest honors from the president, the
National Humanities medal for helping shape the field of Latino and Chicano studies.
“What I want people to know is that Latinos did not arrive a day before yesterday,”
… connecting the past to the present and encouraging her students at UC Irvine to
do the same. [Vicki Ruiz says] “To disseminate to a wider audience, why Latino history
matters.”
For the full story, please visit http://app.criticalmention.com/app/#clip/view?16575494/token/1250ccc3-7625-4baf-9256-90da81b212cf.
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