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Articles for Chicano

This L.A. couple kissed on a bridge and went viral. Now they’re getting married
3 weeks, 6 days ago

This L.A. couple kissed on a bridge and went viral. Now they’re getting married

LA Times  

• Trino Garcia and Adam Vasquez, known on social media as TrinoxAdam, went viral when their kiss on a bridge was shared by photographer Henry Jiménez Kerbox. When their father saw Garcia was attracted to the “girls’ stuff” of his four sisters, he put him on baseball and basketball teams to make him act more like a “boy,” she says. …

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From Japan to Mexico: Lowriding is shedding its gang culture stereotype
2 months, 1 week ago

From Japan to Mexico: Lowriding is shedding its gang culture stereotype

The Independent  

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A self-published lucha libre tale put J. Gonzo on Marvel’s radar. He almost refused the offer.
2 months, 1 week ago

A self-published lucha libre tale put J. Gonzo on Marvel’s radar. He almost refused the offer.

LA Times  

Jason Gonzalez, who goes by his artist moniker J. Gonzo, recalls feeling hesitant about accepting a dream gig with Marvel Comics. “If I do the money grab thing and it doesn’t work, then it’s just an excuse for these companies to never want to do it again.” Comic book artist J. Gonzo looks at the cover of the Marvel Comics …

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Artist and mentor, a former gang member, honored by National Endowment for the Arts
3 months ago

Artist and mentor, a former gang member, honored by National Endowment for the Arts

LA Times  

Fabian Debora, a 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow, center, receives a medal during a ceremony on Sept. 18 at the Library of Congress in Washington. A former gang member who spent several years incarcerated, Debora was recently honored by the National Endowment for the Arts as a 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow. And we also paint not only the struggles, …

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A new play about Gloria Molina looks at a life in politics and the courage to look past the naysayers
3 months, 3 weeks ago

A new play about Gloria Molina looks at a life in politics and the courage to look past the naysayers

LA Times  

Gloria Molina’s civic-driven spirit guides a budding Latina politician in a new play penned by “Real Women Have Curves” writer Josefina López. As a promising writer, López became enthralled by Molina’s 1990 L.A. County supervisor campaign against Art Torres when he allegedly called her a “burrito.” “A male politician could get away with that and no one him accountable,” López …

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Column: A Compton native and academic legend tells his story to a new generation
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: A Compton native and academic legend tells his story to a new generation

LA Times  

Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of “Compton in My Soul,” a memoir about growing up in Compton during the 1950s and 1960s, speaks at Color Compton on Aug. 24, 2024. “I wish it was here when I was a kid!” Camarillo said of the group to co-founder Abigail Lopez-Byrd, as they looked at photos of the …

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Letters to the Editor: Richard Alatorre never lost his ‘visceral compassion for barrio folks’
4 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Richard Alatorre never lost his ‘visceral compassion for barrio folks’

LA Times  

Then-L.A. City Councilmember Richard Alatorre reflects on his career during a news conference announcing his retirement in 1999. Like Alatorre, I grew up in East Los Angeles and graduated from Garfield High School, notorious during the 1960s for its high dropout rate. When I first met him as a USC political science student in the early 1970s, Alatorre rattled me …

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Estevan Oriol and Teen Angel see eye to eye in exhibition ‘Dedicated to You’
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Estevan Oriol and Teen Angel see eye to eye in exhibition ‘Dedicated to You’

LA Times  

Street photographer and artist Estevan Oriol, best known for his image of the “L.A. “My dad told me to start shooting all the stuff that you’re around,” Oriol said. He and Estevan always saw the same kind of beauty.” A bookshelf, complete with every issue of Teen Angel, is positioned next to a wall featuring the magazine’s original cover art …

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Cheech Marin: Chicano art impresario (yes, that Cheech Marin)
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Cheech Marin: Chicano art impresario (yes, that Cheech Marin)

LA Times  

In 2017, the Riverside Art Museum presented a touring exhibition of works on paper from the private collection of actor and comedian Cheech Marin. In 2022, the Riverside Art Museum opened the doors to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, which is focused on presenting art from Marin’s collection: namely, the Chicano artists he has championed and …

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A memoir about Chicano studies, intertwined with a history of Compton
5 months, 3 weeks ago

A memoir about Chicano studies, intertwined with a history of Compton

LA Times  

Book Review Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality By Albert M. Camarillo Stanford: 312 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Camarillo relays the history of Compton in the decades following World War II, when it became increasingly Black …

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Column: The Democratic civil war behind an Anaheim recall election
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: The Democratic civil war behind an Anaheim recall election

LA Times  

Natalie Rubalcava poses for a portrait in front of a historic Chicano mural across the street from Little People’s Park in Anaheim. She showed me a video on her cellphone of protesters who crashed a meet-and-greet to chant that she was corrupt while holding a banner that read “Natalie Rubal-cabal.” Dressed in jeans, fashionable sandals and a white T-shirt emblazoned …

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Column: A meeting of Cal State L.A. student encampments, 55 years apart
7 months 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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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Cheech Marin
8 months, 3 weeks ago

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Cheech Marin

LA Times  

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone with local roots deeper than L.A.-born Cheech Marin, who parlayed a 1970s stoner comedy act into a six-decade movie and TV career, becoming a high-profile collector of Chicano art along the way — all while living in the Greater L.A. area. Interesting!” I also get two newspapers — the New York Times and the …

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Sinseers craft a love letter to L.A. Chicano soul on debut album ‘Sinseerly Yours’
9 months ago

Sinseers craft a love letter to L.A. Chicano soul on debut album ‘Sinseerly Yours’

LA Times  

Thee Sinseers have been on an upward trajectory in the L.A. music scene, bringing their take on Chicano soul from the Boulevard to Memphis, Tenn. “It’s cool to share a little bit of our culture with a bunch of people that are watching from all over the world.” Thee Sinseers have been on an upward trajectory ever since, bringing their …

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Chicana feminist Judithe Hernández draws complex humanity at the Cheech
10 months, 1 week 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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Art about AIDS has often depicted grief. L.A. painter Joey Terrill made it about life
10 months, 1 week ago

Art about AIDS has often depicted grief. L.A. painter Joey Terrill made it about life

LA Times  

Joey Terrill was feeling grateful to be alive, but also conflicted about it. “Still-Life with Crixivan” is one of almost two dozen works by the artist — most of them still lifes — on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Beverly Hills through early March. Terrill was born in Los Angeles in 1955 — “the year Disneyland opened and …

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UCLA doubles down on ethnic studies expansion amid fraught national politics
10 months, 2 weeks ago

UCLA doubles down on ethnic studies expansion amid fraught national politics

LA Times  

Karen Umemoto, director of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, stands next to the multicultural mural between the Asian American and American Indian studies centers depicting the program’s legacies. “The Chus’ investment will allow us to deepen the impact of this essential work.” Shannon Speed, the director of UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center, called the Chu gift a “game …

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Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, a Riverside advocate and prolific fundraiser for the arts, dies at 76
11 months, 1 week ago

Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, a Riverside advocate and prolific fundraiser for the arts, dies at 76

LA Times  

Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, the fierce Latino arts fundraiser and “connector of people” who helped establish the Riverside Art Museum’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, and who made history by becoming the first Latina to serve on the local school board, died Sunday in the presence of her husband and their four children. “We knew right away after we …

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Two exhibitions — at VPAM and the Cheech — put Chicanx bodies front and center
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Two exhibitions — at VPAM and the Cheech — put Chicanx bodies front and center

LA Times  

The most accessible and reliable material an artist has is their body. Two exhibitions currently on view in the Southland — “Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art” at the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles and “Xican-a.o.x. Body” at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside — provide a groundbreaking look at …

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Frutas is hard proof that we were sick AF
1 year ago

Frutas is hard proof that we were sick AF

LA Times  

Founded by photographer, director and multimedia artist Bibs Moreno in 2021 with Aloe Garza, Frutas is a living, breathing archive of Latinos and other people of color in L.A. who exist outside the binary, for whom subculture and style are an obvious religion. L.A. kids wear fits described as “sweet baby metal slut,” “eclectic goth,” “streetwear but make it sexy …

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In the land of wine bars and super-rich, street art reminds Santa Barbara of its Latino roots
1 year, 2 months ago

In the land of wine bars and super-rich, street art reminds Santa Barbara of its Latino roots

LA Times  

Michael Montenegro stands next to the most famous piece of street art in his hometown. Chicano historian and blogger Michael Montenegro stands in Ortega Park, near where he grew up in Santa Barbara’s historically Latino Eastside. The mural’s affirming images and inspirational phrases help Latinos internalize the idea that anyone can realize dreams in Santa Barbara, not just the owners …

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The Virgen de Guadalupe is a symbol of Mexican resistance
1 year, 3 months ago

The Virgen de Guadalupe is a symbol of Mexican resistance

LA Times  

I saw something on the internet the other day, something that got my mind going. In 1859, when Mexico’s first Indigenous president, Benito Juarez, implemented separation of church and state, he left the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dec. 12, intact as a religious holiday. “¡Viva México, hijos de la chingada!” goes a popular cry, and it’s a declaration …

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Roberto Rodriguez, prolific writer on Chicano life, dies at 69
1 year, 4 months ago

Roberto Rodriguez, prolific writer on Chicano life, dies at 69

LA Times  

Roberto Rodriguez, in an undated photo. “Robert always kept his heart and soul with la gente,” said Felix Gutierrez, a retired USC journalism professor who first met Rodriguez when the latter was the editor-in-chief of UCLA’s Chicano newspaper in the 1970s. “He would write in an accessible language,” said poet Matt Sedillo, who helped Rodriguez with an online database of …

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How the concha became a symbol of Mexican American identity
1 year, 4 months ago

How the concha became a symbol of Mexican American identity

LA Times  

Not all pan dulces are created equal. The concha is a perfect accessory In anticipation of the new “Barbie” film release this weekend, bakeries across the country have created a new type of Barbie to consume: a traditional Mexican concha. I’m not here today to argue whether it’s valid or not, but for many people born in the United States …

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