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The A Ver: Revisioning Art History book series documents the work of prominent Latino artists. [11] The Chicano Archives book series includes reference guides to UCLA library special collections on Chicanos. [12] The Chicano Cinema & Media Arts series is an effort to preserve Chicano films and videos. [1]
Cotera at the 2018 Texas Book Festival. Martha P. Cotera (born January 17, 1938) is a librarian, writer, and influential activist of both the Chicano Civil Rights Movement and the Chicana Feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Noriega is professor of cinema and media studies at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. [2] He was also the director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) from 2002 to 2021. Noriega is an adjunct curator at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where he has worked as an curator since the 1990s. [ 1 ]
John Francisco Rechy (born March 10, 1931) is a Mexican-American novelist and essayist. [1] His novels are written extensively about gay culture in Los Angeles and wider America, among other subject matter.
Chicano Studies became "much closer [to] the mainstream than its practitioners wanted to acknowledge." [160] Others argued that Chicano Studies at UCLA shifted from its earlier interests in serving the Chicano community to gaining status within the colonial institution through a focus on academic publishing, which alienated it from the ...
He is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also served as executive vice chancellor and provost. He was an early supporter of Chicano Studies at UCLA. He is the author of two widely reviewed books about the Middle Ages, and the co-editor of a third book.
Rasquachismo is a theory developed by Chicano scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto to describe "an underdog perspective, a view from "los de abajo" (from below) in working class Chicano communities which uses elements of "hybridization, juxtaposition, and integration" as a means of empowerment and resistance.
Rodolfo "Rudy" Francisco Acuña (born May 18, 1932) is an American historian, professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge, and a scholar of Chicano studies. He authored the 1972 book Occupied America: A History of Chicanos , an approach to the history of the Southwestern United States with an emphasis on Mexican Americans .