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Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, as well as the paper’s unofficial northern Peruvian cumbia ambassador, here with the week’s essential culture news.
Making the Latino central
Chon Noriega has led UCLA’s
Chicano Studies Research Center, an academic hub that was launched in the late 1960s, and that has been key to archiving Chicano historical documents, producing original scholarship and publications, and commissioning oral histories of important artists, activists and political figures. After 19 years, he is stepping down from that role though he will remain as a professor in the department of film, television and digital media.
True West Magazine
We Are the Land,
by Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.
“A welcome contribution to Native studies and the rich literature of California’s first people.” – Kirkus Reviews
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By 1865, the Wilkison Reno family owned more land than anyone else in Jackson County,…
If you’ve been looking for something different in a Western story, Doug Hocking may have the…
Millions of Americans including our own Bob Boze Bell got their college education from “land grant colleges”…