%0 Journal Article 
%A Allatson, Paul
%T Of farmworkers and other exploitations:  the enduring relevance of Rius’s "The Chicanos"
%D 2021
%@ 1889-5611
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49009
%X 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.”

%K Eduardo del Río García
%K Rius
%K Chicanos
%K North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
%K Los Agachados
%K Comics
%K Farmworkers
%K Undocumented immigrants
%K COVID-19
%K El movimiento chicano
%K Congreso Norteamericano de América Latina
%K Historietas
%K Campesinos
%K Inmigrantes indocumentados
%K Chicano movement
%K Arte
%K Art
%K Historia
%K History
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%K Filología
%K Philology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala