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Visual Arts
Artbound
Rare Exhibit Brings Chicano Art to Mexico City
Post date:“Bridges in a Time of Walls: Mexican/Chicano Art from Los Angeles to Mexico” is a wide-ranging, multigenerational and rare exhibit of Chicano artwork in Mexico’s capital.
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artbound
Artbound
Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara: The Chicano Culture Sculptor
Post date:Los Angeles native Chicano musician and activist Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara — known perhaps most famously for his work with Frank Zappa — says his artistry has been “as much a spiritual calling as it was political.”
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film and media arts
Artbound
Harry Gamboa Jr.'s Photographic Excavation of Chicano Identity
Post date:When photographer Harry Gamboa Jr. began his portrait series, “Chicano Male Unbonded” in 1991, the word “Chicano” had negative implications. Now, after more than 20 years, his photographs reveal a more complex image of the Chicano male.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
The Origins (and Consequent Popularity) of Chicanx-Style Tattoos
Post date:Years ago tattoos were often taboo, but today they've become a popular form of adornment. The Chicanx-style tattoo is among the most famous styles of this art form. Artist Freddy Negrete was key in popularizing this style.
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migrant kitchen
The Migrant Kitchen
Chicano Eats: Where Mexican Food and Design Intersect
Post date:Chicano Eats presents photos and recipes that quietly tap into mainstream beliefs about Mexican food being cheap, exotic or lacking depth — and underscore that the complex cuisine has more personality than most people realize.
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Music
Artbound
My SoCal Mixtape: Influential Chicanos Made Playlists Using the Songs That Shaped Their Youth
Post date:Which songs shaped your youth? Eight Southern California tastemakers share the sounds that have influenced them — the music that underscores the region's kaleidoscopic youth cultures.
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Music
Artbound
The Chicano/a Musicians That Defined the Southern California Music Scene
Post date:The early and deep presence of Chicano musicians and fans helped define the sound of the Southern California popular music scene.
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![[Left] "Santa Barbara Brown Berets aka Moratorium in Maravilla" 1970. | Photo: Oscar Castillo || [Right] "Not One More (Girl with Beret)" 2016. | Photo: Rafael Cardenas](https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/styles/kl_image_medium/public/thumbnails/image/featured_oscar_castillo_and_rafael_cardenas_photos_brown_be.jpg?itok=k_bdPXgj "[Left] \"Santa Barbara Brown Berets aka Moratorium in Maravilla\" 1970. | Photo: Oscar Castillo || [Right] \"Not One More (Girl with Beret)\" 2016. | Photo: Rafael Cardenas")
film and media arts
Artbound
Photos of Latino Youth Resistance, From the 1960s to Today
Post date:Protest photographs bridge Latino youth cultures across space and time. They remind us that Chicano youth continue to not only speak out about injustice but thrive despite it.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Black and Blue and Brown: Artists Depict Police Brutality
Post date:From his use of Ice Cube’s lyrics to his references to the police beating of King and the subsequent civil unrest, Juan Capistran demonstrates their continued resonance within U.S. popular culture.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Defining 'Chicanismo' Since the 1969 Denver Youth Conference
Post date:On March 23, 1969, 1500 Mexican Americans students convened at the Denver Youth Conference, unifying under the term "Chicano." In commemoration, Sybil Venegas, Chair of Chicana/o Studies Department at East Los Angeles College, explains what's changed s...
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Documenting 1990s Chicano Youth Culture
Post date:The Veteranas and Rucas Instagram feed flashes back to the Chicano underground scene of the 1990s.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Chicano-Con Is San Diego's Latino-Focused Comic-Con
Post date:Comic-Con, the massive geek gathering, has separated itself from the residents of surrounding neighborhoods like Barrio Logan. With Chicano-Con, David Favela and his friends worked to create their own convention -- one that encompassed the rich Mexican...
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Slanguage Speaks Slanguage
Post date:With videos, workshops, and dollar store cosplay outfits, art collective Slanguage creates a sci-fi, yet rasquache world in "Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost."
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Juan Felipe Herrera: Poet Laureate of Aztlan and America
Post date:This week L.A. Letters spotlights Herrera, looking back on his long career and celebrating his remarkable legacy.
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east of east
History & Society
¡La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and Women in the Chicano Movement
Post date:Gloria Arellanes story challenges the male-centric narratives of the Chicano Movement and helps us better understand both the scope and breadth of this large-scale mobilization, including projects focused on community care.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Remembering Michele Serros
Post date:This week L.A. Letters remembers the legacy of the celebrated Chicana writer/poet, and shares memories of her work from many of her admirers.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Serigrafia: Constructing the Chicana/o Imaginary
Post date:The printwork on view in the traveling exhibition "Serigrafía" demonstrates the fluidity of Chicana/o identity since the initial Chicano manifesto of 1969.
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Departures
Life at Marrano Beach, the Lost Barrio Beach of the San Gabriel Valley
Post date:Marrano Beach, a popular recreational destination for Mexican American communities, was unlike any beach in Los Angeles.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Vincent Valdez's The Strangest Fruit: A Bitter Crop in Texas
Post date:His most recent body of work seeks an understanding of the widespread lynching of Mexicanos in Texas between 1848 and 1928.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
Poetry as Social Practice: The Luis Rodriguez Poetry Locomotive
Post date:This week L.A. Letters spotlights Luis Rodriguez's distinguished career and also highlights the larger community of writers from Boyle Heights to Pacoima and Sylmar that count him as their mentor.