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Mexican Americans

The David Bacon Photography Archive: Capturing the Struggle for Social Justice in Photos

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Bacon documented workers in the fields, strikes by teachers and hotel workers in cities, poverty and homelessness in the streets, marches for immigrants’ rights and much more.

Nick Rahaim November 11, 2020 capitalism, labor, Mexican Americans, Photography

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

Grapes of Wrath: Paulina Cabrera’s 1968 Summer

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My aunt Paulina Cabrera and her mother Maria Dolores flirtingly pose and proudly display a bunch of green […]

Unofficial Archives May 4, 2017 agriculture, California, Mexican Americans, Mexico, Unofficial Archives

Mateo’s Coins

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I was fourteen years old when I first heard the story of my great grandfather Mateo Espinosa. My […]

Unofficial Archives April 4, 2017 Mexican Americans, Mexico, Unofficial Archives

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

The Last Lecture of My First Semester: My Daughter, Pocahontas

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For the past semester, I’ve taught California Studies, a course primarily designed for non-history majors and future K-6 […]

Romeo Guzman December 12, 2016 California, holidays, Mexican Americans, teaching

Born For Love: Juan Gabriel’s Ballads of Solitude, and the Pain of Immigration

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It’s difficult to overstate the ubiquity of Juan Gabriel’s voice in the everyday lives of Mexicans, both here in […]

Antonio Del Toro August 31, 2016 gender, Mexican Americans, Mexico, music, sexuality

Hicks Camp: A Mexican Barrio

“I remember the Queen was beautiful, and the parade came down from Hicks Camp to Medina Court. The […]

South El Monte Arts Posse May 21, 2014 East of East, labor, Los Angeles, Mexican Americans, race, SEMAP, the Left, transnational history, whiteness

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