After we (MECHA) had submitted our request to implement Chicano Studies to IVC, I began checking with the office of the Deputy Supt an average of once a week. I ...
Guest: Zinga A. Fraser is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women’s Activism. She is ...
Pioneering artist, who repurposed the Virgin of Guadalupe as a heroic figure, never got a retrospective during her lifetime, columnist David Allen writes.
César A. Martínez says he does not have a natural ability as an artist. “I was never a prodigy or anything. I liked to paint and draw when I was a kid, but was I good at it? No,” said ...
Photo credit: lajollaplayhouse.org When I first arrived in San Diego from Mexico City in the early 1980’s, I was a little surprised at how different Mexican culture and Chicano culture were.
“There’s something about the American character that’s embodied in this group that’s made up of Salvadorans (Herbert Siguenza and Ric Salinas) and a Chicano (Montoya himself),” he said.