The Chicano Studies program did not come about without a fight; in 1968, students took over the administration building, demanding more diversity on campus, including faculty, programs, and resources ...

You may have seen the term in a Twitter bio or as a program in a college ethnic studies department (if you have one), but Chicano/Xicano represents something that no one person can encompass, and no ...

A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself. He resents being told Columbus “discovered” America when the Chicano’s ancestors, the Mayans and the Aztecs, founded highly ...

In this episode of FACEism, we remember a chapter of L.A. history that should never be forgotten. During the height of the Vietnam War, Mexican Americans were dying at an astonishing rate in the war, ...

When Harry Gamboa Jr. saw Chicanos in the mainstream media, he didn't see himself, or the people he knew. And he wanted to change that. Growing up during the 1960s Chicano movement, the Los ...

Josh Kun is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and cultural critic whose last story for the magazine was about the music and art scene in Tijuana. On the roof of a single-story house, a man is ...

Influenced by post-Mexican Revolution ideology, pre-Columbian art, European painting techniques and social issues facing Mexican-Americans, the Chicano art movement has represented both the struggle ...

An influential and rare permanent space dedicated to prolific Chicano art and culture –possibly the nation’s first and largest permanent collection of Mexican American Art, museum officials say – ...

USPS will release 2026 lowrider stamps celebrating Chicano car culture, featuring iconic custom cars and detailed pinstriping ...

Through A Fistful of Soul and the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, La Rotta has organized a panel discussion and music performance tied to a book that documents a particular ...

Ed. note: As long as humans have been making music, it’s been used as a form of protest. As part of KQED Arts’ 100 Days project, documenting artists’ responses to our new administration in its ...

A new television documentary series tells the true story of an all-Latino homicide squad in Houston that began in the late 1970s that — with little training — was asked to solve some of the city’s ...