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Figure 1.3. Daniel Galvez, assisted by Osha Neumann, O’Brien Thiele, and Stephanie Barrett, © 1977, Viva la Raza, mural, Berkeley, California. Courtesy of Timothy Drescher. Figure 1.2. Sergio O’Cadiz, project director, assisted by Doris Baker, Emigdio Vasquez, and Jennifer Winn, plus a team of thirty-three students from MEChA, © 1974, The MEChA Mural, mural, Nealley Library, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, California. Courtesy of Nealley Library, Santa Ana College. Figure 1.4. Judy Baca, © 1981, Zoot Suit Riots panel from The Great Wall of Los Angeles, mural, Tujunga Wash, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California. © SPARC (www.sparcmurals.org) [18.116.42.208] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 17:21 GMT) Figure 1.5. Barbara Carrasco, © 1981, L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective, portable mural (various locations). Courtesy of Barbara Carrasco. Photograph of Carrasco taken by Harry Gamboa Jr. during the mural’s two-month-long display at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles as part of the city’s 1991 festival. This was the only time the sixteen-by-eighty-foot mural was ever exhibited in its full form. Figure 2.1. Guillermo Aranda and others, © 1970–1984, La Dualidad, mural, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California. Courtesy of Guillermo Aranda and Centro Cultural de la Raza. Figure 2.2. Domingo Rivera, © 1975, Psycho-Cybernetics, mural, San Francisco, California. Photograph by Guisela Latorre. Figure 2.4. East Los Streetscapers, © 1977, Chicano Time Trip, mural, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California. Courtesy of David Botello and Wayne Alaniz Healy. Figure 2.12. Emigdio Vasquez, © 1980, Nuestra Experiencia en el Siglo Veinte, detail, Salvation Army, Anaheim, California. Repainted in 1996. Courtesy of Emigdio Vasquez. [18.116.42.208] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 17:21 GMT) Figure 3.2. Willie Herrón, © 1972, The Wall That Cracked Open, mural, City Terrace, Los Angeles, California. Courtesy of Willie Herrón. Figure 3.3. Esteban Villa and Ricardo Favela, © 1974, Mujer Cósmica/Cosmic Woman, mural, Chicano Park, San Diego, California. Courtesy of Esteban Villa. Figure 3.5. Posh One, © 1997, Skate One, graffiti mural, Fullerton Road and Melrose Avenues, Hollywood, California. Courtesy of Alan Barasch. Figure 3.8. Man One, © 2005, Coral on Indigo, graffiti mural, East Los Angeles, California. Courtesy of Man One. Figure 4.2. David Botello, © 1973–1975 (restored in 1996), Dreams of Flight, mural, East Los Angeles, California. Courtesy of David Botello. [18.116.42.208] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 17:21 GMT) Figure 4.6. Guillermo Aranda, Mario Acevedo, Víctor Ochoa, Salvador Torres, José Cervantes, Tomás Castañeda, Guillermo Rosete, and others, © 1971, Quetzalcoatl, mural, Chicano Park, San Diego, California. Courtesy of Víctor Ochoa. Figure 4.9. Susan Kelk Cervantes, © 1990, Indigenous Eyes: War or Peace, mural, Balmy Alley, San Francisco, California. Courtesy of Susan Kelk Cervantes. Figure 4.10. Paul Botello, © 2000, Inner Resources, mural, City Terrace, East Los Angeles, California. Courtesy of Paul Botello. Figure 5.3. Las Mujeres Muralistas, © 1974, Latinoamérica, mural, San Francisco, California. Courtesy of Timothy Drescher. [18.116.42.208] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 17:21 GMT) Figure 5.11. Alma López, © 1997, Las Four, digital mural, Estrada Courts, East Los Angeles, California. Courtesy of Alma López. Figure 5.6. Judy Baca, © 1980, Unsigned Indian Treaties panel from The Great Wall of Los Angeles, mural, Tujunga Wash, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. © SPARC (www.sparcmurals.org) Figure 5.12. Juana Alicia, © 2004, La Llorona’s Sacred Waters, mural, San Francisco, California. Courtesy of Juana Alicia. Figure 6.1. Harry Gamboa Jr., © 1972, Walking Mural, photograph of public performance, East Los Angeles, California. Courtesy of Harry Gamboa Jr. Figure 6.3. Colette Crutcher, © 1990; 1997, Tonantsin Renace, detail, mural, San Francisco, California. Courtesy of Colette Crutcher. [18.116.42.208] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 17:21 GMT) Figure 6.4. Juana Alicia, Miranda Bergman, Irene Pérez, Yvonne Littleton, Meera Desai, Edythe Boone, and Susan Kelk Cervantes, © 1994, Maestrapeace, mural, Lapidge Street façade, San Francisco, California. Photograph by César Rubio. Courtesy of Meera Desai. Figure 6.7. Los Cybrids, © 2001, Humaquina: Manifest Tech-Destiny, digital mural, temporarily installed in the Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, California. Courtesy of John Jota Leaños. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK [18.116.42.208] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 17:21 GMT) Walls of Empowerment THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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