Once upon a time, in the early 1970s, an ethnic Mexican adolescent observed Chicanos at a family gathering sporting brown berets, black Ray-Ban sunglasses, and beatnik-styled goatees.
Category Archive: Chicano
Since my early youth I always compared the homes and neighborhoods of people in my blue-collar social network with those more privileged.
At the close of Teatro Campesino’s 1972 film Los Vendidos/The Sellouts, originally a play written by Luis Valdez, a menagerie […]
Courage, determination, aggressive energy, initiative. That was the radical style of Chicanas and Chicanos.
I and most ethnic Mexican compas, colleagues, and gente in communities of my ilk do not identify with Spain’s legacy of violence and exploitation in the Americas.
The pillars that once divided Barrio Logan are now the foundation that shapes this rich Chicanx landscape.
A war is raging in the heart of the History Department — a contest over meaning, power, and […]
“I like that [Cuco’s music] is not aggressive, it’s soft-natured,” says 19-year-old Samuel Gonzalez. But rather than taking […]