09/15/2025
📢 New 𝘈𝘻𝘵𝘭á𝘯 Issue Alert! Volume 49, Number 2 – Fall 2024
What is 𝘈𝘻𝘵𝘭á𝘯? 𝘈𝘻𝘵𝘭á𝘯: 𝘈 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 presents original research that is relevant to or informed by the Chicano experience. An interdisciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, 𝘈𝘻𝘵𝘭á𝘯 focuses on scholarly essays in the humanities, social sciences, and arts. 𝘈𝘻𝘵𝘭á𝘯, published by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) in collaboration with the University of California Press, has been the leading journal in the field of Chicanx studies since 1970.
The opening essays explore how Chicanx communities navigate and influence social change. Anthony R. Jerry compares the structures and strategies of two San Diego–based nonprofit organizations, and Lorena V. Márquez addresses the shift in focus from Chicanx rights to a broader emphasis on pan-Latinx immigrant and human rights in the 1980s. The final essays explore intersections of violence and exploitation within Chicanx communities via media texts. Salvador Zárate considers the film A Better Life (2011) in his examination of collaboration between the carceral state archive and ethnographic practices, and Alicia Muñoz looks at the concepts of slow violence and gore capitalism in the novel Bang! (2017).
The Dossier section, curated by Richard T. Rodríguez and David Lloyd, celebrates the life and work of beloved poet, writer, scholar, and teacher Alfred Arteaga. An essay by Arteaga and a 2010 interview join personal remembrances, poetic tributes, and scholarly analyses of Arteaga's work. New translations into English of three of Arteaga's poems complete the section. In addition to the curators, the contributors are Frederick Luis Aldama, José Anguiano, Harry Gamboa Jr., Ramón García, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Melissa Mora Hidalgo, Ryuta Imafuku, Marcelle Maese, José Navarro, and Laura E. Pérez.
This issue features the work of Albuquerque-based artist Vicente Telles.
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📌 𝘈𝘻𝘵𝘭á𝘯 is available online through our co-publisher, University of California Press: online.ucpress.edu/aztlan
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Cover art: Vicente Telles, Mi Amigo the Pigeon, 2022. Watercolor, oil pastel, and traditional gesso on Masonite panel, 18 x 22 inches. Private collection. Photography by Carr Imaging.
UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies UCLA Institute of American Cultures UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center University of California Press L.A. Xicano
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