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Category Archive: Chicano

Chicano Park: A Community’s Legacy of Resistance

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The pillars that once divided Barrio Logan are now the foundation that shapes this rich Chicanx landscape.

Guest November 16, 2020 arts, California, Chicano, Chicano history, cities, San Diego, street art

The Drag Queen, the Aquarium, and the Noid: We Do Mind Dying

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A war is raging in the heart of the History Department — a contest over meaning, power, and […]

Guest August 31, 2018 Aneurysms, Best of, Chicano, Chicano history, gender, literature, Los Angeles, Palestine, transgender, writing

An Unlikely Heartthrob Decades in the Making: Cuco and Greater Mexico’s Soundscape

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“I like that [Cuco’s music] is not aggressive, it’s soft-natured,” says 19-year-old Samuel Gonzalez. But rather than taking […]

Carribean Fragoza March 12, 2018 Chicano, Fresno, immigration, Mexican Americans, music

U.S. Soccer, like the Nation, Misses the Mark

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If you follow fútbol—or soccer as it’s known up here—you know that fans, coaches, and players on both […]

Romeo Guzman February 2, 2018 Chicano, Chicano history, immigration, Mexican Americans, soccer, sports, sports soccer

Defying Gravity, Breakin’ Boundaries: The Rise of Fresno’s Climax Crew

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In the early 1990s a ten-year-old boy sat on the roof of his grandmother’s home in Southeast Fresno, […]

Guest January 25, 2018 Chicano, Chicano history, dance, Fresno, hip-hop, Mexican Americans, music, Straight Outta Fresno

Imaginary Dangers, Real Victims: A Lawyer and a Historian on the Real Facts about Trump’s Executive Order

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Donald Trump sees danger everywhere. They are the stabby Dreamer hiding a machete under her graduation gown. They […]

Guest February 20, 2017 Chicano, Chicano history, conservatism, Donald Trump, immigration

All They Will Call You: A Look at the Lost History of Deportation and a Tragic 1948 Flight

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All They Will Call You (The University of Arizona Press, 2017) is Tim Z. Hernandez’s attempt at telling […]

Rubén January 23, 2017 1940s, 1950s, agriculture, California, Chicano, Chicano history, Mexican Americans

A Blaxican’s Journey through Fresno’s Racial Landscape

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In the summer of 1973, DJ Kool Herc tried something new on the turntables: by extending the beat, […]

Guest January 13, 2017 African American history, California, Chicano, dance, Fresno, Mexican Americans, music, Straight Outta Fresno

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