Mexican. Mexican-American. American. Chicana? Growing up, I never understood what the terminology meant. My parents defined a Chicana/o as someone who lost their heritage, their true Mexican culture: ...

Laekan Zea Kemp often thinks of a scene from the now-legendary 1997 film “Selena” when she pictures the two worlds many Mexican Americans have to navigate each day. “There’s that famous line where her ...

On the Day of the Dead each year, Charlene Villaseñor Black goes to the cemetery with her family to reconnect with her ancestors. She then goes to the Hill to see through the Day of the Dead ...

New Latina/o authors are creating intimacy with the reader in the context of a complex diversity that has required two neologisms, Latin@ and Chican@. That requirement emphasizes how incomprehensible ...

Identifying myself was never hard when I was younger. People would ask what I was, and I would have no problem with simply responding by saying, “I’m Mexican.” And that’s what I was. I was so used to ...

Dear Mexican: I’m a 23-year-old Latina attending a Texas university. I’m taking a class that is centered around Latino culture and history. I’m a first-generation Tex-Mex kid, and lately all of the ...

This fall, University of Wisconsin students will be able to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Chicana/o and Latina/o studies. Previously, this was only offered as a certificate. Director of the Chicana/o ...

A new, pink marquee reading “Chicana” illuminates downtown Fullerton from above by nightfall. Below, a brick-and-mortar restaurant is flanked by comic book images of a purple pig-tailed luchadora.

Marilyn Montufar is fascinated by life on the edge. Not the metaphorical risky edge; Montufar means civilization’s edge. “I’m really interested in photographing in the outskirts of major American ...