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Christina Fernandez

Christina Fernandez

Multiple Exposures

By Rebecca Epstein

Christina Fernandez sees herself as equally artist and storyteller, one who employs photography to explore social and physical isolation and estrangement within marginalized communities while experimenting with composition and form. Her art is shaped by...

ISBN: 9780895512017

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The Artist as Eyewitness

The Artist as Eyewitness

Antonio Bernal Papers, 1884-2019

By Charlene Villaseñor Black

This first survey of Antonio Bernal’s life and work, The Artist as Eyewitness features essays that assess his murals, situating them within the historical, political, and cultural frameworks of the Chicano movement. It also includes...

ISBN: 9780895511744

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Knowledge for Justice

Knowledge for Justice

An Ethnic Studies Reader

By David K. Yoo, Pamela Grieman, Charlene Villaseñor Black, Danielle Dupuy, Arnold Ling-Chuang Pan

Knowledge for Justice is a joint publication of UCLA’s four ethnic studies research centers: American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and African American Studies. The book addresses the intersectional intellectual, social, and political...

ISBN: 9780935626704

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The Chicano Studies Reader

The Chicano Studies Reader

An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

By Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaseñor Black

The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations...

ISBN: 9780895511720

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Autobiography without Apology

Autobiography without Apology

The Personal Essay in Chicanx and Latinx Studies

By Chon A. Noriega, Wendy Laura Belcher, Charlene Villaseñor Black

This collection of essays, drawn from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, focuses on the personal experiences of Chicanx and Latinx scholars, writers, and artists. Each essay is a reflection on the process of self-naming—the...

ISBN: 9780895511737

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La Raza

La Raza

By Colin Gunckel, Luis C. Garza, Amy Scott

La Raza, launched in 1967 in the basement of an Eastside LA church, was conceived as a tool for community-based organizing during the early days of the Chicano movement. The all-volunteer staff of the newspaper—and...

ISBN: 9780895511652

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Barrio Harmonics

Barrio Harmonics

Essays on Chicano / Latino Music

By Steven Loza

This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics,...

ISBN: 9780895511676

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The <i>Aztlan</i> Mexican Studies Reader, 1974-2016

The Aztlan Mexican Studies Reader, 1974-2016

By Hector Calderon

This set of essays explores the ongoing cultural and political connections between Chicana/o and Mexican history. Edited and introduced by Héctor Calderón, The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader, 1974–2016 presents thirteen previously published essays together with...

ISBN: 9780895511690

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The Chicana/o Education Pipeline

The Chicana/o Education Pipeline

History, Institutional Critique, and Resistance

By Michaela J. L. Mares-Tamayo, Daniel G. Solorzano

This anthology explores the relationships between Chicana/o students, families, and communities and the various school settings that comprise the education pipeline, from Kindergarten classrooms through postsecondary programs and postgraduate experiences. The essays, which appeared in...

ISBN: 9780895511669

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Home — So Different, So Appealing

Home — So Different, So Appealing

By Chon A. Noriega, Mari Carmen Ramirez, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas

Home — signaling a dwelling, residence or place of origin — embodies one of the most basic concepts for understanding an individual or group within a larger physical and social environment. Yet home has been...

ISBN: 9780895511645

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Altermundos

Altermundos

Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

By Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, B. V. Olguin

Speculative fiction—encompassing both science fiction and fantasy—has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing new critical vocabularies and approaches to topics that include colonialism and modernity, immigration and globalization, race and...

ISBN: 9780895511638

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The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings

The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings

By Agustin Gurza. With Jonathan Clark

The Strachwitz Frontera Collection is the largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American vernacular recordings in existence. More than 40,000 recordings, all produced during the first half of the 20th century, have been...

ISBN: 9780895511485

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Floricanto en Aztlan

Floricanto en Aztlan

By Alurista Hayes-Bautista. illustrated by Judithe Hernandez

With these one hundred poems Alurista created a highly original poetics that upset the literary conventions of the era. Floricanto en Aztlán was published in 1971, a time of Chicano activism and the search for...

ISBN: 9780895511478

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The Pocho Research Society

The Pocho Research Society's Field Guide to Erased and Invisible Histories

By Sandra de la Loza

Visual and performance artist Sandra de la Loza presents a wry commentary on the Chicano history of Los Angeles in this field guide to Downtown and East Los Angeles. Using the format of the photographic...

ISBN: 9780895511461

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Paths to Discovery

Paths to Discovery

Autobiographies from Chicanas with Careers in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering

By Norma E. Cantu, Aida Hurtado

In Paths to Discovery a group of extraordinary Chicanas trace how their interest in math and science at a young age developed into a passion fed by talent and determination. Today they are teaching at...

ISBN: 9780895511195

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Tradition and Transformation

Tradition and Transformation

Chicana/o Art from the 1970s through the 1990s

By Shifra Goldman. Edited by Charlene Villasenor Black. Preface by Chon A. Noriega

Pioneering art historian Shifra Goldman brought the study of Chicana/o and contemporary Latin American art to the notice of art history. She was determined to correct the stereotypes that had distorted the critical reception of...

ISBN: 9780895511553

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Self Help Graphics & Art

Self Help Graphics & Art

Art in the Heart of East Los Angeles

By Colin Gunckel

This second edition of Self Help Graphics & Art brings the original edition up to date, adding breadth and depth to the history of the historic East L. A. arts center. Self Help Graphics has...

ISBN: 9780895511546

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VIVA Records, 1970-2000

VIVA Records, 1970-2000

Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles

By Robb Hernandez

Robert Hernandez traces the history and assesses the impact of VIVA! Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, a nonprofit artists' coalition founded in 1987 in the Silverlake community of Los Angeles. Their aim was to increase...

ISBN: 9780895511492

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Oral History and Communities of Color

Oral History and Communities of Color

By Teresa Barnett, Chon A. Noriega

Oral history has been employed for decades by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists to collect data about lived experience. This volume explores how oral history, using video recordings and storytelling as well as interviews, can be...

ISBN: 9780895511447

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Oscar Castillo Papers and Photograph Collection

Oscar Castillo Papers and Photograph Collection

By Colin Gunckel

Since the late 1960s, photographer Oscar Castillo has documented the Chicano community in Los Angeles and South Texas, from major political events to cultural practices to the work of muralists and painters. His photographs explore...

ISBN: 9780895511409

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