Ethnic Identity Group Resources

CSUCI Student Organizations

On-Campus Support

Women of Color Peer Mentoring Program

The Women of Color (WOC) Peer Mentoring program is a great opportunity for CSUCI students who identify as WOC to help other WOC like them succeed in an intentional and purposeful way. Current successful students who are seeking an empowering interpersonal leadership experience and who meet the program criteria are encouraged to apply to become Peer Mentors. Peer Mentors are committed to sharing their personal and academic experiences to encourage, guide, challenge and support new students in their academic growth, goal achievement, and overall success as a CSUCI student. The program matches successful continuing students with new students, connecting them as partners for a yearlong experience. Learn more here or reach out to Natalie Johnson (natalie.johnson@csuci.edu).

Community Resources

AfroCuba Web

Each Community maintains a certain identity through language, music, dance, religion, and membership organizations ranging from the cabildos (casa templos), self-help associations dating from the days of slavery and organized under African rules, to the West Indian Welfare Center, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. There is a wealth of culture for those discerning enough to look. Our aim is to help you do that by putting up as much material as we can. See our Table of Contents to access such major categories as Music, Author & Teachers on AfroCuban culture, Organizations that teach courses and workshops or are involved in the promotion of the African cultures of Cuba, as well as a number of other categories.

Asian-Nation

While Asian Americans “only” make up about 5% of the U.S.‘s population (as of 2008), we are one of the fastest growing racial/ethnic groups (in terms of percentage increase) in the U.S. Asian Pacific American Heritage © HMS Co. The Asian American community has received a lot of scrutiny over the years but in many ways, still remains misunderstood. Therefore, this site serves as a concise but comprehensive introduction to the Asian American community.

Hyphen Asian America Unabridged

2002, spurred by the shuttering of a.Magazine, a small group of 20-and-30-something journalists and artists got together to fill the void by envisioning the kind of magazine we always wanted to read: a publication that would go beyond celebrity interviews and essays about discovering our roots, which we found a long time ago, thank-you-very-much. We began meeting around a kitchen table in San Francisco that spring, and over snacks and beer, a vision slowly emerged. The magazine wouldn’t flinch at covering serious issues, but also wouldn’t take itself too seriously. It would cover Asian Americans in Texas, Kansas and Minnesota, not just the critical mass living in California and New York. It would feature emerging artists, thinkers and doers, not only the few established Asian Americans who’d gotten mainstream approval. It would be a magazine that looked beyond identity — we’d explore cultural issues while tackling what is Asian American by accident, by tangent or by happenstance.

League of United Latin American Citizens

LULAC is a proactive advocacy organization advancing Latino community power and leadership towards ensuring social and economic justice, and a quality of life for Latinos and all members of our Ventura County communities.

MICOP (Mixteco Indigenous Community Organizing Project)

The Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) unites indigenous leaders and allies to strengthen the Mixtec and indigenous immigrant community in Ventura County, estimated at 20,000 people. Most are strawberry farmworkers, and many speak primarily their indigenous language. MICOP’s majority-indigenous staff builds community leadership and self-sufficiency through education and training programs, language interpretation, health outreach, humanitarian support, and cultural promotion. We organize the community to advocate for shared concerns. MICOP reaches approximately 6,000 individuals each year. MICOP is also the founder and home of Radio Indigena, out of Oxnard, Ca, a radio station with programming in indigenous languages such as Mixteco.

NAACP

NAACP is committed to equality and justice for all. Your oldest and most effective civil rights organization in the country will continue the fight for freedom. Our desire and goal are to serve our community, by dedicating ourselves to “Making a difference in our community”. We hope that both our members and the surrounding community will benefit from the information presented on this website. We trust this site will be informative and of value to all of our citizens.

Sacred Indigenous Preservation

Indigenous Preservation exists to protect and preserve the indigenous ceremonies of North America and to support the places where the practice of these ceremonies is threatened.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

Racism and white supremacy keep the many divided for the benefit of the few. We must have an inclusive, open-hearted approach to organizing — calling people into this work rather than creating barriers to participation — while maintaining a clear political line. SURJ has committed to centering disability justice and poor/working-class organizers in our work.

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