Julian Mendoza – Feature Artist

Julian Mendoza – Feature Artist

By Edgar Hoill and LRA Staff – Lowrider.com – Image: Julian Mendoza. Julian Mendoza is a Southern California artist that was born and raised in the Los Angeles Harbor/South Bay area, and he’s lived on the same block for well over 50 years. As a graduate of...
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...
La Pachuca: Mexican subculture in 1940’s L.A.

La Pachuca: Mexican subculture in 1940’s L.A.

By Maria Rios – MuseumOfTheCity.org – Photo Tumblr Pachuca girls in a police station, 1940s The pachuca/os culture came into the spotlight in the summer of 1942 with the death of José Díaz on Williams ranch in rural Los Angeles, located near reservoirs...
Pachucas and the Chicana/o movement

Pachucas and the Chicana/o movement

By Maria Rios – MuseumOfTheCity.org – Photo Salvador Rojas While pachucas were being persecuted from both the American public and their own community, there began a gender shift and an empowerment growing in ethnic women and the subculture was making an...