SAN DIEGO - APRIL 22: Guillermo Rosette, a dancer with Toltecas en Aztlan(CQ) dance group, blows into a conch shell during a dance performance at the Chicano Park Heritage Festival April 22, 2006 in ...

On an almost six feet tall sculpture made up of produce boxes, there’s a full body sketch of a man in ink and charcoal. The boxes, wearing recognizable brands like Chiquita and Sunkist, are stacked up ...

For many, Cheech Marin is a household name. The comedian and actor is best known as part of the countercultural duo Cheech and Chong, but he’s also an avid collector of Chicano art and opened the ...

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Before his death in 2020, eminent Chicano historian Juan Gómez-Quiñones packed decades of Mexican American history into the garage and shed of the Pacific Palisades home he’d lived in for half a ...

Chicano tattooing has an undeniable power in American imagery. “I feel like how far it’s gained traction shows how popular and accepted Chicano culture has grown across the country and globally,” says ...

It was 54 years ago, on Aug. 29, 1970, when we marched for justice at the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles. It was 122 years after the end of the U.S.- Mexico War, and an estimated 40,000 Chicano/as ...

An image of the El Alacrán Newsletter at UT Arlington from 1972. The newsletter provided a voice for the Chicano community on campus. Courtesy UTA Association of Mexican-American Students Records, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. One day in December 2022, Ruben Molina — DJ, record collector, and community historian — received a call about a ...