El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 3

El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 3

United Farm Workers, newspaper, Mexican Revolution

This is the third copy of the United Farm Workers' newspaper. El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the union members free of charge, but also offered subscriptions and could be bought at local stores throughout the Central Valley in California. The front cover of this edition shows the revolutionaries, including a female revolutionary, taking a break from the battle in song and unity. On the first page of this particular issue, there is a discussion of revolutionaries who fought in the Mexican Revolution. The United Farm Workers connected themselves to the history of these revolutionaries, describing themselves as the "sons of the Mexican Revolution" in the Plan of Delano, a plan which detailed the goals of la causa, or the cause. Although they utilize sexist language, leaving out the daughters of the Mexican Revolution, in this image we clearly see the female presence in the revolution, which should echo the female farmworkers fighting in la causa as well.

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El Taller de Grafica Popular print in El Malcriado, UFW newspaper

El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California

1965

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Courtesy of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA

El Malcriado, United Farm Workers

ink on paper

Spanish, English

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