García, who started teaching at UCSB in 1975, was among the first generation of professionally trained historians to excavate and document Chicano/a history, helping to set the foundation for emerging ...

Tucson celebrates talk about the importance of Mexican-American history in the city and the possibility of a museum being erected.

After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evan Vásquez-Gómez looks through a cabinet that contained papers belonging to her father, Chicano studies historian Juan ...

Long before Colorado was Colorado, Indigenous tribes lived on the land, then Spanish settlers arrived. The Mexican War of Independence fought in the early 1800s meant they became Mexican citizens.

DENVER — There are parts of Colorado history everyone knows well. Then there are topics that made huge impacts here, yet rarely make it into the textbooks taught in school. The Chicano Civil Rights ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A new exhibit now open at the Oakland Museum celebrates the Chicano movement. It was a push for fair treatment, equal opportunity, civil rights and cultural appreciation of ...

“Radical Histories: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” makes its West Coast debut at The Huntington’s Marylou and George Boone Gallery from Nov. 16 to March 2. Co-curated by ...

LOS ANGELES — When filmmaker Travis Gutiérrez Senger reflects on ASCO’s legacy, he quickly notes they were more than an art group; they created a movement, one with remarkable influence on Chicano art ...

In Mixed Blood Theatre's production of "Minnecanos," an elderly Chicano man's lessons are passed on to his great granddaughter. However, Raul Ramos, the play's director, says audiences are the ones on ...

For his body of work in history that has inspired progressive social change as it advanced the inclusion of the poor and oppressed, this year’s Bert Corona Lifetime Achievement Award honors Mario T.