Número 16
Latin@ Comics en los Estados Unidos
Of Farmworkers and Other Exploitations: The Enduring Relevance of Rius’s The Chicanos
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In 1972, the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) published a comic by the Mexican comic artist Rius: NACLA Presents Rius: The Chicanos. This was an English-language version of Los Chicanos, which Rius had released in his Los Agachados series in 1971. In US Latino cultural and comic history The Chicanos is an overlooked artefact: it is the first comic book-length treatment of Chicanos and the diverse drives of the Chicano Movement. In this essay I assess The Chicanos as a key example of transborder information exchange about a US population with direct links to Mexico. The Chicanos, I suggest, survives as a cultural artefact—which comes to the discussion with inevitable historical biases and oversights—that illustrates how important historical memory is in a USA in which prevail ephemeral media soundbites and claims of “fake news.”
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