LATINX ARTISTS AT MICHIGAN (1945-1980s): ART AS A FORM OF ACTIVISM By: Danie Lopez INTRODUCTION If you identify as Latinx, how do you make yourself visible on a campus that is not intended for you? Do you start an organization? Organize a rally or protest? Meet with administrators? Ignore the issue? Or Do you channel…
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Chicano Art? At Michigan?: The Raza Art and Media Collective
The Chicano movement history has largely been painted as a Southwest/West Coast phenomenon. Even famous Chicano poet Alurista commented after the Denver National Youth Conference of 1969 how, “he was surprised to learn that Mexicans came from exotic places such as Kansas City and Chicago.”1 Who would have guessed that another one of those “exotic…