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 …
My first visit to a brewery came at the tender age of 3½ with my Grandfather Miguel. A lifelong Budweiser man, my grandpa also drank Olympia and other classic macro-lager brands of the 1970s and ’80s that I would come to associate with him, even as his beer tastes leaned Mexican. Watching the brewery action was almost like watching the …
