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

  • by Carribean Fragoza
  • Posted on March 12, 2018March 12, 2018

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

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  • Chicano

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

  • by Romeo Guzman
  • Posted on February 2, 2018March 31, 2018

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

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  • Chicano

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

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on January 25, 2018February 22, 2018

In the early 1990s a ten-year-old boy sat on the roof of his grandmother’s home…

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  • immigration

Migrant Dreams and Soccer Journeys

  • by Romeo Guzman
  • Posted on May 19, 2017May 19, 2017

Below a crisp blue sky lies an open field of green. Its perfectly trimmed Bermuda…

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  • agriculture

Grapes of Wrath: Paulina Cabrera’s 1968 Summer

  • by Unofficial Archives
  • Posted on May 4, 2017December 5, 2017

My aunt Paulina Cabrera and her mother Maria Dolores flirtingly pose and proudly display a…

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Kickin’ It with Gary Soto: The Tropics of Meta Interview

  • by Joseph Rios
  • Posted on April 22, 2017December 4, 2017

When the opportunity to hold a microphone during a Gary Soto interview came up, I…

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  • Mexican Americans

Mateo’s Coins

  • by Unofficial Archives
  • Posted on April 4, 2017May 4, 2017

I was fourteen years old when I first heard the story of my great grandfather…

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  • African American history

It Started Here: Jean Vang’s Journey into Fresno’s Hip Hop Past

  • by Tropics of Meta
  • Posted on January 26, 2017March 27, 2017

Popping is a dance style that originated in Fresno and is characterized by abrupt spastic movements.…

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