Sunday has finally arrived. After six days of work and school, the best part of the week is […]
Category Archive: California
“Once,” wrote Oscar Handlin, “I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I […]
My aunt Paulina Cabrera and her mother Maria Dolores flirtingly pose and proudly display a bunch of green […]
When the opportunity to hold a microphone during a Gary Soto interview came up, I leapt at it. […]
Hip-hop’s founding myth places the culture’s birth at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, where on a summer […]
Popping is a dance style that originated in Fresno and is characterized by abrupt spastic movements. The dancers pop […]
All They Will Call You (The University of Arizona Press, 2017) is Tim Z. Hernandez’s attempt at telling […]
In the summer of 1973, DJ Kool Herc tried something new on the turntables: by extending the beat, […]