This article chronicles the strategies and efforts Chicana/o and Latina/o student activists employed in the demand and creation of the César E. Chávez Center for Higher Education (CECCHE) at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) between 1990 and 1995. We situate the center’s establishment as the result of student activism. CPP served as a stage whereon students resisted negative campus racial climate by institutionalizing the CECCHE as a counterspace. Student activism at CPP reflected broader resistance efforts in California in the 1990s. The student leaders, like activists from California’s social movements, resisted conservative rhetoric and systemic racism by mobilizing cross-racial coalitions and enacting public protest. Using critical race history, we analyze ten oral histories of students, faculty, and administrators involved in the establishment of CPP’s first Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural center. We situate the formation of the CECCHE as an example of student of color commitment to antiracist activism in higher education.

本文记录了1990年至1995年之间Chicana / o和Latina / o学生活动家在需求和创建Cal Poly Pomona（CPP）的CésarE.Chávez高等教育中心（CECCHE）时所采用的策略和努力。学生行动主义的结果​​是该中心的建立。CPP是一个阶段，通过将CECCHE设置为对等空间，学生可以抵御负面的校园种族气候。CPP的学生积极性反映了1990年代加利福尼亚州的广泛反抗努力。学生领袖与加利福尼亚社会运动的积极分子一样，通过动员跨种族联盟和进行公众抗议来抵制保守的言论和系统种族主义。利用重要的种族历史记录，我们分析了学生，教职员工，和管理人员参与了CPP的第一个Chicana / o和Latina / o文化中心的建立。我们将CECCHE的成立作为一个例子，以学生对高等教育中反种族主义行动主义的坚定承诺为例。