Jose Chapa Jr.

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Enjoy SXSW, as I did when it was totally free many moons ago ❤️ ATX

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Tres,
Sunday coastline heat 🌞
abuelita waters roses 🌹
chain-link shadows stretch ⛓️

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My grandfather would say, "Dime con quien andas, y te dire quien eres"🧐

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Puro 💎 bling,bling ✨️ 👊🏾chingona✊🏾

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It challenged #disfranchisement, segregation, white primaries, jury exclusion, & political bossism. #LULAC also addressed school and housing #segregation while working to reduce poverty & build a strong Mexican American middle class

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#OTD in 1929, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was founded at Salón Obreros y Obreras in Corpus Christi, #Texas. The oldest and largest #Latino civil rights organization in the U.S., LULAC emerged from a rising Texas-Mexican middle class determined to fight racial discrimination.

I like to support artist that have Chicano/a/x themes to my art collections, as a artist myself, learning new things too, which is woodblock(Mexican Revolution style )/linocut. So, I Love the piñata in the room🙂

Do sell your artwork?

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Mexican politics, #community life & often defended Mexicans and Mexican #Americans from abuse. Sold across South #Texas & beyond, its final issue appeared January 31, 1963, just weeks before its 50th anniversary.

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#OTD in 1913, Ignacio E. Lozano founded La Prensa in #SanAntonio, a Spanish-language daily serving Mexicans in the U.S. during the #Mexican Revolution. Known as the voice of “el México de Afuera,” it connected emigrés to their homeland with news, analysis, & patriotic pride. The paper covered

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over 90% of the county’s beet industry #labor force had joined the #JMLA, bringing the sugar industry to a standstill. The laborers ultimately won most of their demands.

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#OTD 1903 Japanese & Mexican laborers unite to form the #Japanese - #Mexican Labor Association to fight the labor contractor responsible for hiring at the American Beet Sugar Company in Oxnard, #California. They refused to work until their grievances were addressed & by the first week in March,

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urged action. Beginning work in #Laredo in 1850, the commission ultimately validated 234 land grants in five South Texas counties for the original #Spanish & Mexican owners.
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#OTD in 1852, the Texas Legislature confirmed the findings of the Bourland Commission, created to investigate Spanish and #Mexican land claims after the Mexican War. With many grants north of the Rio Grande under dispute and political pressure to separate trans-Nueces #Texas, Governor Peter Bell

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Here's the Contra ICE towel artwork (front and back) that appeared at the Super Bowl, we will be selling the towels to benefit Contra ICE's album and planned concert which will benefit two pro-immigrant non-profits in Los Angeles. Stay tooned for the announcement here! Contra-ICE.com

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