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Column: In 2024, books by and about Southern California Latinas shined
1 month ago

Column: In 2024, books by and about Southern California Latinas shined

LA Times  

The Mujeres de Aztlán mural, painted in 1976, in the Ramona Gardens housing project as seen in 2020. Thankfully, Portland State professor Cristina Herrera gives Serros the literary respect she deserves with “Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros’s Writings.” Herrera analyzes Serros’ major works — the collections “Chicana Falsa” and “How to Be a Chicano …

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Column: A meeting of Cal State L.A. student encampments, 55 years apart
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: A meeting of Cal State L.A. student encampments, 55 years apart

LA Times  

Richard Santillan, from left, Raul Cardoza and Monte Perez speak with members of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Cal State L.A. on Saturday. “I was really happy when I heard about this encampamento,” said Phillip Castruita, a co-founder of Cal State L.A.’s first Latino activist group, United Mexican American Students. “All of us carried what we learned from it,” said …

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Chicana feminist Judithe Hernández draws complex humanity at the Cheech
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Chicana feminist Judithe Hernández draws complex humanity at the Cheech

LA Times  

In a revealing video interview that accompanies her captivating 50-year survey at the Riverside Art Museum’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, artist Judithe Hernández recounts how she became the anomalous fifth member of Los Four, the groundbreaking L.A. art collective. An activist colleague and friend of Los Four’s Frank Romero, Beto de la Rocha, Gilbert “Magú” Luján …

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A tale of a Los Angeles puppet master
1 year, 4 months ago

A tale of a Los Angeles puppet master

LA Times  

Puppeteering for over 20 years, Cain Carias has performed throughout Los Angeles County — at community centers, parks, concerts, schools, quinceańeras and even events like L.A.’s dance party Scam and Jam. El Triste swoons the homegirls with a flirty wave while singing along to Los Yesterdays’ “Nobody’s Clown.” Mister E raps “Hot Foos Summer,” while Carias casts a surreal spell …

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Toxic gratitude, or 'Si Dios Quiere Syndrome,' is the concept that Latinos are too content receiving scraps
1 year, 4 months ago

Toxic gratitude, or 'Si Dios Quiere Syndrome,' is the concept that Latinos are too content receiving scraps

LA Times  

Few words have soured for me like the word “toxic.” Paired with words like “masculinity,” it might sound like it’s saying something, but I’m not actually convinced it says much beyond “this broad category of social behavior is bad, just trust me.” But when the question “Do Chicanos have a toxic gratitude problem?” was posed to me, it landed in …

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Column: Gen Z and millennial Latinas fighting for social justice need to learn from Chicana legends
1 year, 6 months ago

Column: Gen Z and millennial Latinas fighting for social justice need to learn from Chicana legends

LA Times  

California Community Foundation CEO and President Antonia Hernández poses for a portrait at her downtown Los Angeles office in 1998. “I’ll work with the devil if he’ll take me where I want to go,” Hernández said. She recalls that when she didn’t want to compromise, her one-time boss Sen. Edward Kennedy gave her good advice: “Take half a loaf today, …

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Column: Making tamales with Gloria Molina and other stories
1 year, 7 months ago

Column: Making tamales with Gloria Molina and other stories

LA Times  

The eulogies are coming in for pioneering Chicana politician Gloria Molina, who died Sunday night — Mother’s Day — after a three-year battle with cancer. “One morning before a meeting, Gloria was speaking to a journalist and asked me, ‘Joy, what’s the Spanish word for ‘bridge’?” Picus said. And we both laughed hard!” Few took more of Molina’s barbs than …

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Gloria Molina, Chicana who blazed paths across L.A. politics, dies
1 year, 7 months ago

Gloria Molina, Chicana who blazed paths across L.A. politics, dies

LA Times  

Gloria Molina, the daughter of working-class parents and an unapologetic Chicana who transformed the political landscape of Los Angeles, died Sunday night after a three-year battle with cancer. “Even though we were poor, I was never at home ever felt to be poor,” Molina said in a 2017 interview for Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Oral and Public History. “We …

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LA Plaza's 'L.A. Memo' unearths hidden gems by Chicano artists
2 years, 4 months ago

LA Plaza's 'L.A. Memo' unearths hidden gems by Chicano artists

LA Times  

Greetings from the Bay Area, where I’m marinating in pisco punch and cool temperatures. This includes one of painter Judithe Hernández’s original preparatory drawings for “Recuerdos de Ayer, Sueños de Mañana,” the downtown mural she created to mark L.A.’s bicentennial. Also on view is a guerrilla music video that Valdez created to accompany Devo’s “Whip It.” In it, figures in …

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Nineteen & Two: A poem for the victims of Uvalde
2 years, 7 months ago

Nineteen & Two: A poem for the victims of Uvalde

LA Times  

I am mourning nineteen children I never knew. I am mourning their two teachers who looked like my mother my tías my abuelas in an earlier life, younger faces of the people I love. In passing, my father berates the Texas police their lack of urgency their defense of handcuffing parents families tasing their bodies to stop them from begging, …

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Q&A: Becky G unveils every side of herself in latest album
2 years, 7 months ago

Q&A: Becky G unveils every side of herself in latest album

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Becky G finds every bit of her represented in the songs of her new album, “Esquemas.” “I can feel the parts of me that feel empowered. Its songs are really just based on storytelling, real, true emotion and empowerment, for sure.” Becky G, whose real name is Rebbeca Marie Gomez, also spoke about “Dolores,” a touching song …

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Op-Ed: Removing Indigenous concepts from ethnic studies sends a terrible message to California’s students
2 years, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: Removing Indigenous concepts from ethnic studies sends a terrible message to California’s students

LA Times  

Removing the Indigenous concepts In Lak’ech and Ashe from California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, on the false premise that they are religious, sends a message to all of the state’s students, especially those who are Chicanx, Black and Native, that their cultures are not worth fighting for. The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, a group that has worked against ethnic …

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California becomes first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation
3 years, 3 months ago

California becomes first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation

LA Times  

After more than five years of intense scrutiny and effort, California on Friday became the first state to make ethnic studies a required class for high school graduation to help students understand the past and present struggles and contributions of Black, Asian, Latino, Native/Indigenous Americans and other groups that have experienced racism and marginalization in America. Medina called the new …

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Latinx Files: Fernandomania forever
3 years, 4 months ago

Latinx Files: Fernandomania forever

LA Times  

Ahead of the 1991 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers made the difficult decision to cut pitcher Fernando Valenzuela. Our daily news podcast If you’re a fan of this newsletter, you’ll probably love our new daily podcast, “The Times,” hosted by columnist Gustavo Arellano, along with reporters from across our newsroom. This is the Mexican version of the Virgin Mary.” Though …

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Two jobs, full course loads, COVID-19 battles: CSU students persevere amid equity gaps
3 years, 9 months ago

Two jobs, full course loads, COVID-19 battles: CSU students persevere amid equity gaps

LA Times  

Cal Poly Pomona junior Diana Alcantar, 21, studies at home in Bellflower on March 17. Martha Escobar teaches Chicano and Chicana studies at Cal State Northridge, which serves a large working-class Latino population and many “Dreamer” students without permanent legal status. How are they affected?” Virtual difficulties Faculty and students said they believed the grades earned by students in the …

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Ethnic studies pioneer Rudy Acuña on neoliberalism, Trump and the future of academia
3 years, 9 months ago

Ethnic studies pioneer Rudy Acuña on neoliberalism, Trump and the future of academia

Salon  

As the debate over ethnic studies brews in California and the Biden administration transitions into power, the 88-year-old founding chair of the landmark Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge, has little time for small talk. "Without knowing it, we leave our own footprints in life; over half my life has been in the Chicana/o Movement and related …

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How female Brown Berets created their own Chicana movement
4 years, 4 months ago

How female Brown Berets created their own Chicana movement

LA Times  

Putting pen to paper, Hilda Jensen began her letter: “Hi, I’m the girl with the bandoleros.” It was 2003 and she was writing to filmmaker Jesús Salvador Treviño from her home in Alabama. I’m done.’” In a letter addressed to an official at the Brown Berets’ national headquarters, the women and girls of the Los Angeles chapter collectively resigned on …

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For one Chicana rocker and memoirist, music is activism, and a way of life
4 years, 5 months ago

For one Chicana rocker and memoirist, music is activism, and a way of life

LA Times  

Martha Gonzalez, the singer for Quetzal and author of a new book, “Chican@ Artivistas,” at her home in Los Angeles, holding a jarana from Veracruz. “Although we were grateful for the recognition, was like having Santa Claus come to your home when you don’t necessarily believe in him anymore,” she writes in her new book, “Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and …

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The culture that defines Los Angeles
4 years, 10 months ago

The culture that defines Los Angeles

BBC  

The culture that defines Los Angeles From a satire of the Hollywood underbelly, to a noir movie – and a masterpiece of resistance and rebellion – Cath Pound explores three iconic works that depict the City of Angels. In Judith Baca’s monumental mural sequence, The Great Wall of Los Angeles, the histories of the ethnic minorities – who appear in …

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US Latinas rally around ‘Roma’ actress Yalitza Aparicio
5 years, 10 months ago

US Latinas rally around ‘Roma’ actress Yalitza Aparicio

Associated Press  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Yalitza Aparicio, the Oscar-nominated, first-time actress in “Roma,” is finding strong support among Mexican-American women who identify with her indigenous roots despite backlash she is receiving in Mexico. “My students can’t stop talking about her.” The praise north of the U.S.-Mexico border among fans of Mexican descent comes as Aparicio, who is from the Mexican state of …

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