(CHICANO GANG CULTURE) A fascinating album with 36 photograp

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(CHICANO GANG CULTURE)
A fascinating album with 36 photographs compiled by an East Los Angeles gang member, Jose Vasquez (a.k.a. "Joe"), during his stint in a juvenile correctional facility, including images of the facility and its inhabitants, as well as yearbook-style signatures and well-wishes from friends and classmates. A rare cultural document of early Chicano gang history in Southern California, in which many of the subjects appear to be from the Maravilla Family Gang. Silver (32) and Kodak Instant color photographs (4), ranging in size from 3x3 to 3x4 3/4 inches (7.6x7.6 to 7.6x12.1 cm.), each cornered and mounted recto/verso, with dates printed on recto; most with signatures and notation decorating the mounts. Oblong small wooden 4to, with the title and date carved on the front cover. 1963-64

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with--A pair of laminated ID badges from the Pioneer High School 20th Year Reunion, for Jose Vasquez, the creator and original owner of the album, and his guest. 1983.

Acquired directly from the family by a Private California Collector.

A scarce cultural record of East LA gang culture in the early years of the American Civil Rights movement. Students walked out in protest at public schools from Crystal City, Texas, to East Los Angeles. The United Farm Workers, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, held marches and led the Delano grape strike. When university students joined these and other left-wing political movements, they adopted the term "Chicano," upending its historically derogatory meaning in favor of using it to define an identity and pride in their culture. Chicano is used as both an ethnic identity and a political alignment today.