José Luis Benavides · @jlbenavides
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Luis Valdez talks about Emmon Clarke's photographs at the Bradley Center showing El Teatro Campesino performers in front of Tortillería La Azteca in Delano—the first headquarters of Teatro, located on the corner of Seventh and Ellington in Delano's westside. César Chávez agreed to let the performers have a separate office as they were also active in the farmworker movement.
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Russell Contreras · @russcontreras
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Pages from the original Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a document that transformed the American Southwest, are headed to a museum in Denver on the 175th anniversary of its signing

axios.com/2023/01/19/treaty-gu

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Russell Contreras · @russcontreras
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The Texas Rangers are known as a storied force made of myth and romance. But they were connected to a legacy of racial violence. Subscribe to the newsletter for free to read about what some Latino scholars are doing to confront the history of the Texas Rangers ahead it the Rangers' bicentennial.

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Last updated 2 years ago

Russell Contreras · @russcontreras
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The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have historically been portrayed as a region of myth and romance in pop culture frontier imagination, but the reality of their past is much darker, as two new books are showing.


axios.com/2022/12/20/border-us

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Last updated 2 years ago