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Science Fiction against the Margins

Cinematic Futures, Global Imaginaries

By Chon A. Noriega, Maya Montañez Smukler, Nicole Ucedo

Explores independently produced media that uses science fiction to address societal and political issues

Today the genre of science fiction is widely associated with big-budget American films featuring space invaders and lab-made monsters. Outside of mainstream...

"There Are No Hispanic Stars!"

Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 1921–1939

By Gabriel Navarro. Edited and translated by Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna

Selected writings by early LA cultural critic Gabriel Navarro, in English for the first time

In the 1920s and 1930s a uniquely Mexican American entertainment culture flourished across the southwestern United States. Spanish-language newspapers offered theater...

Christina Fernandez

Multiple Exposures

By Rebecca Epstein

Winner of the Silver Medal in Best Art Books from the 2023 International Latino Book Awards

Winner of the Bronze Medal in Best Cover Illustration or Photo from the 2023 International Latino Book Awards

Christina Fernandez sees...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Laura Aguilar

Show and Tell

By Rebecca Epstein, Sybil Venegas

Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell surveys the career of Laura Aguilar, a Chicana photographer who is most widely known for black-and-white nude self-portraits that are frank and self-assertive, yet deeply sensitive and poetic. In photographs...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...