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Lydia Chavez

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Lydia Chavez started as a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune, later moving on to Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, where she served as El Salvador and South American bureau chief. In 2005, Chávez and her students collaborated to publish Capitalism, God and A Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century (Duke University Press). And in 1998, Chávez published, The Color Bind: Californias Battle Against Affirmative Action, which won the Leonard Silk Award (UC Press). She has also written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Examiner and magazine pieces for the Los Angeles Times and New York Times Sunday Magazines and George Magazine. She holds a bachelors degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and a masters degree from Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism.

Stories by Lydia Chavez

Daniel Ortega's New Best Friend
For Salon, Professor Lydia Chavez looks at Nicaragua, the return of Daniel Ortega and how his Venezuelan friend, President Hugo Chavez,offers the region its first alternative to Washington-style democracy since the 1980s.
Posted February 8, 2007

Out Of The Shadows
The undocumented and their allies who took to the streets, writes Professor Lydia Chavez for Salon.com, come from a group rarely seen at protests: The working poor. Is this the sound of a new labor movement?
Posted May 2, 2006

Si Se Puede! Illegal Immigrants Speak Up
For New America Media, Professor Lydia Chavez considers the massive immigrant demonstrations and their impact on the debate in Congress.
Posted March 28, 2006

Rebuilding the Nation of Immigrants
In the final part of an OpEd Series for the Los Angeles Times, Professor Lydia Chavez writes on the need for policy makers to consider the benefits of offering citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Posted December 21, 2005

The Quiet Assimilation of the Undocumented
In Part II of an OpEd series for the Los Angeles Times, Professor Lydia Chavez writes about how the undocumented are accommodated.
Posted December 20, 2005

Caught in the Overlap of Two Societies
Lydia Chavez offers a look at immigrantion in a three part Los Angeles Times OpEd series. Part 1: Washington fails to deal with the realidad of insourcing.
Posted December 19, 2005

Muslim World
For San Francisco Chronicle, Professor Lydia Chavez covers a trip she took to India with a group of J-School students, and the insights gained into the thinking of Muslim youth in Kashmir.
Posted April 20, 2003

Back to Chile
For Oxygen, Professor Lydia Chavez writes about taking her two adopted daughters on a trip back to their native Chile.
Posted April 18, 2002 (Story link no longer active)

Offensive Song Lyrics
For George Magazine, Professor Lydia Chavez writes about the failed crusade against offensive song lyrics and why the presidential candidates are avoiding the issue.
Posted December 31, 1969 (Story link no longer active)

Articles about Lydia Chavez:

Chavez Wins Tenure, from North Gate News

Classes with Lydia Chavez:

Proposition 22: Pro Family or Anti-Gay, a Web site produced by students in Lydia Chavez' introductory reporting class in Fall 1999.

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