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Santa Ana
City Rising
Photos: Santa Ana's Underrepresented Citizens
Post date:With a seventy-eight percent Latino population, Santa Ana has become a sanctuary for Latinos in Orange County. Maintaining traditions from their homelands, generations of U.S. born and immigrant Latinos have cultivated Santa Ana’s distinct culture.
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intersections
History & Society
The Valley Paradox: Immigrant Labor in the Creation of San Fernando Valley
Post date:Without Japanese and Mexican American labor, the Valley's image of "whiteness" would not have been possible.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Cardboard Crafting: Ana Serrano's Paper Worlds
Post date:Artist Ana Serrano constructs cardboard-made sculptures inspired by Latino pop culture, and the beauty found in the day-to-day built environment of L.A.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Cardboard Crafting: Ana Serrano's Paper Worlds
Post date:Artist Ana Serrano constructs cardboard-made sculptures inspired by Latino pop culture, and the beauty found in the day-to-day built environment of L.A.
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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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intersections
History & Society
Sporting Golden State: Women and Athletics in 20th Century California
Post date:Before and after 1972 when Title IX radically altered American sport, California and its female athletes have been and continue to be a forerunner regarding issues of gender, race, and sexuality.
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intersections
History & Society
Working to Play, Playing to Work: Mexican American Baseball and Labor in Southern California
Post date:Baseball enabled Mexican Americans to create connections that helped buoy working class communities, and even contributed to unionization efforts amid widespread discrimination.
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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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Latin America
Artbound
Metralleta de Oro: Bringing the Bling to Cumbia
Post date:The trio of young Mexican American DJs Metralleta de Oro specialize in Sonidero, an extremely rhythmic sub-genre of the Mexican, Central and South American cumbia genre notable for its thumping repetitive bass lines.
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Artbound
Metralleta de Oro
Post date:The trio of young Mexican American DJs Metralleta de Oro specialize in Sonidero, an extremely rhythmic sub-genre of the Mexican, Central and South American cumbia genre notable for its thumping repetitive bass lines.
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intersections
History & Society
The Shifting Cultures of Multiracial Boyle Heights
Post date:Los Angeles of the 1920s remained a segregated landscape, many neighborhoods boasted a diverse non-white population consisting of Latino, Asian, African American faces.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
El Pachuco and the Art of 'Zoot Suit'
Post date:If the stage production of "Zoot Suit" made El Pachuco the flag bearer of identity, its poster became the garrison flag.
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Avila Adobe
History & Society
Iconic Hispanic Angelenos in History: Francisco Ramirez
Post date:As editor of the first Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles, he highlighted the discrimination and injustice faced by Mexican-Americans, Californios, Chinese, and Blacks.
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students
Departures
East L.A. Blowouts: Walking Out for Justice in the Classrooms
Post date:The 1968 East Los Angeles walkouts displayed the largest mobilization of Chicano youth leaders in Los Angeles history.
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East LA
SoCal Focus
L.A. Band Quetzal and Their Imaginaries
Post date:They sing in English and Spanish. Their violin, electric guitar, little jarana guitars, and wood box percussions blend into something more than Mexican, Mexican American, or American music.
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El Pueblo
History & Society
Departures Partners with The HeArt Project & La Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Post date:KCET Departures: Youth Voices will team with La Plaza de Cultura y Artes this upcoming academic year for a three-way partnership with The HeArt Project.
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Arrival Story: Stacey Martino and René Rivera
Post date:For this installment of Arrival Stories, we hear from playwright and acting teacher Stacey Martino and actor René Rivera.
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Highland Park
Departures
Reclaiming The City
Post date:The murals, writings and ephemera created by artists, thinkers and activists in the Highland Park area prefigured a symbolic occupation of the city, or, as some historian and cultural critics have put it, the gradual Latinoization of Los Angeles.
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Highland Park
Departures
Chisme Arte: Chicano Art
Post date:Chisme Arte was a publication of the Concilio de Arte Popular, a statewide arts advocacy group founded to interconnect and stabilize the network of Chicano arts organizations throughout California.
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Highland Park
Departures
Centro De Arte Publico
Post date:Centro de Arte Publico was founded in 1977 on 56th and Figueroa in Highland Park, producing works that focused on Los Angeles street scenes and urban Chicana/o youth.