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...
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...
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...
By Yuri Pena – HoustonPress.com – Photo Yuri Pena Pachucos y Pachucas de Houston Tejas gathered at Sara’s Ice House on North Main for an original Pachuco’s Night with contests for La Mas Chingona, Mas Chingon, best-dressed and a couples dance...
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...
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