Secondary Research
The University of Southern California has a diverse range of students that are of different ethnicities and come from different states and over 100 foreign countries. According to UCLA’s site for admissions and records, it’s last summation of figures of the diversity for campus wide enrollment was in 2017, and 22% of the student population was listed as ‘Hispanic.’ This large percentage was only 6% off from the largest ethnic group on campus, which was for ‘Asian’ Bruins, at 28% enrollment. Unfortunately, however, Latinx students in California are some of the most segregated in the country.
The Los Angeles Daily News wrote an article that covered a study that UCLA did in 2014 called ‘The Civil Rights Project.’ This study found that even though Latinx students have a large population in California, they are the most isolated group. Latinx students are often found to be in attendance in schools where there is a language barrier, and a majority of the students are poor. The study has provided an extensive website that can be served as a pool of compiled statistical information and resources on and for the Latino students in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
In 1991, John H. Lee wrote an article called “UCLA Magazines Fill Void for Students, Take Look at Unexplored Issues : Media: The seven official publications are products of the tumultuous activism of the ’60s and ‘70s” that has a quote from the editor of La Gente at that point in time. “The Daily Bruin writes mostly about issues on campus — for people in Westwood,” said Gloria Hernandez, editor of the Chicano publication La Gente de Aztlan. “We have totally different readership.”
There is a book called, “Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings” by Alma M. Garcia, who is a Latinx sociologist with a Ph.D. from Harvard, is a nationally recognized speaker for Gender and Ethnic studies and has been a keynote speaker at UCLA previously. In the book, there is a passage that talks about the positivities of having an outlet like La Gente. How it’s existence is important because it “reflects Chicano views in general terms of the UCLA environment or whatever community activities it gets into.”
