How My Southeast L.A. Culture Got to Japan

How My Southeast L.A. Culture Got to Japan

By Walter Thompson-Hernández – NYTimes.com – Image Capture: Walter Thompson Hernandez | The New York Times. I grew up in southeast Los Angeles, the son of an African-American father and Mexican mother, and the concept of identity is a theme that has been...
Museo de las Americas exhibit honors Pachuco culture

Museo de las Americas exhibit honors Pachuco culture

By Sonia Gutierrez – 9News.com – Video Capture: 9 News. An exhibit at Museo de las Americas celebrates the unique fashion and language of the Pachuco culture of the 1930s and 1940s.  The “Pachuco y Sieranas exhibit,” which started in February...
Here is a comment worth posting from Ty and Maria Garcia

Here is a comment worth posting from Ty and Maria Garcia

Yeyyy!!! Excellent!!! A lowrider car should be displayed in this collection as one of the greater creation of Chicanos. In addition, a Pachuco Suit Zuit should be displayed as we all know that the Pachuco Outfit came out from Mexican Americans… yes, back then, during...
Pachucos y Sirenas Looks Back at 1940s Chicano Counterculture

Pachucos y Sirenas Looks Back at 1940s Chicano Counterculture

By Eneri Rodriguez – WestWord.com – Photo: Daniel Salazar. Photo: Museo de las Americas new exhibition Pachucos y Sirenas looks at 1940s Mexican-American counterculture in the Southwest. (Daniel Salazar) In the 1930s and 1940s, being brown in the United...