Because I have roots in Arizona…

Because I have roots in Arizona…

A Xicanita in the making, Arizona, 1982 My earliest memories of experiencing the Southern Border are of trips to the place where my dad grew up and where my tio Tony and tia Maria lived-Nogales. They lived on the Arizona side of the border but my uncle and my dad were...
RAZA! CULTURA, POLITICA Y TRADICION

RAZA! CULTURA, POLITICA Y TRADICION

¡RAZA! CULTURA, POLÍTICA Y TRADICIÓN Sol Collective 2574 21st street Sacramento, CA 95815   May 15 Reception begins @ 7pm-11pm $5 Suggested Donation Featuring: Carlos Francisco Jackson Jesús Barraza Malaquías Montoya Melanie Cervantes Xico González Sol Collective...
The process of developing “Brown and Proud”

The process of developing “Brown and Proud”

Building of a Chicana Consciousness As a senior in high school I vividly remember the movement that emerged in California to resist the racial profiling, xenophobia and nativism that Proposition 187 stirred in the state. Prop 187 was a 1994 ballot initiative designed...