How Californios, Land Conflicts, and Race Shaped the Golden State
Prior to US conquest, a group of elite, mixed-race Mexicans called Californios nurtured the dream of patria chica ("small homeland") in what is now the state of California. Californios' settler dreams of wealth and privilege depended upon controlling Indigenous land and labor, but after Anglo settlers and the US Army arrived, Californios struggled ......
How Californios, Land Conflicts, and Race Shaped the Golden State
Prior to US conquest, a group of elite, mixed-race Mexicans called Californios nurtured the dream of patria chica ("small homeland") in what is now the state of California. Californios' settler dreams of wealth and privilege depended upon controlling Indigenous land and labor, but after Anglo settlers and the US Army arrived, Californios struggled ......
Marfa, Texas is a world-renowned art pilgrimage site. When Donald Judd moved there in 1971, he permanently installed works of art in and around town. Catalyzed by Judd's presence, the small Southwest town is now home to galleries, arts foundations, festivals, and studios. In Marfa, Marfa, Josh T Franco examines the minimalist frameworks and ......
In Transplanetary Americas, Robb Hernandez launches a propulsive pathway for Latinx cultural studies by exploring how the modern space race has driven artists to look up and attune to expressions derived from the solar system and beyond. By advancing a theoretical and methodological framework he calls "transplanetary relationality," Hernandez ......
In Marfa, Marfa, Josh T Franco examines the minimalist frameworks and aesthetic paradigms that artist Donald Judd brought to Marfa, Texas, now a famous art-pilgrimage site, and their intersection with the rasquache sensibilities of Marfa's local Chicanx and Mexican American communities, which include Franco's own family. Marfa, Texas is a ......
In Transplanetary Americas, Robb Hernandez launches a propulsive pathway for Latinx cultural studies by exploring how the modern space race has driven artists to look up and attune to expressions derived from the solar system and beyond. By advancing a theoretical and methodological framework he calls "transplanetary relationality," Hernandez ......
The story of La Llorona-the weeping spirit everyone recognizes but no one wants to face-has been passed down orally for hundreds of years, spanning nearly all of Latin America and tracing its origins to Mesoamerican myths. Yet despite her prevalence, La Llorona is far from the region's only folkloric monster. Others, such as the Pishtaco, the ......
The story of La Llorona-the weeping spirit everyone recognizes but no one wants to face-has been passed down orally for hundreds of years, spanning nearly all of Latin America and tracing its origins to Mesoamerican myths. Yet despite her prevalence, La Llorona is far from the region's only folkloric monster. Others, such as the Pishtaco, the ......
How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest
The fields and orchards of the Midwest have offered seasonal agricultural work for countless Latinx migrant laborers. For more than a century, Mexican, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican migrants converged in the heartland's agricultural industry to perform some of the most grueling labor needed to sustain the vital agribusiness of the region. In ......