First Friday, held Oct. 7, was a busy night for the visual arts. After the opening of “Windows Alive!”, I headed over to Collaboration Coffee to hear artist Madeline Alviso Ramirez talk about her work ...
The National Hispanic Cultural Center is focusing on women, specifically, the chola. They describe her as a working-class Mexican-American femaleThe exhibit is all about exploring her as a symbol of ...
The Chola is a significant figure in the Latina imagination. Known for her strength, power and resilience in the face of racial, gender and economic adversity, her social identity is stronger than ...
This is cultural appropriation — point blank. The Japanese chola look is based on stereotypes, generalisations and a Hollywood caricature of a very real group of people. But far from coming from a ...