El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 38, "Las Acordadas (The Remembered)"

El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 38, "Las Acordadas (The Remembered)"

United Farm Workers, El Malcriado, TGP

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. In this front cover of the 38th issue, El Malcriado utilized the print by Jesus Escobedo produced for El Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP) in Mexico. Artists Leopoldo Mendez, Pablo O’Higgins, and Luis Arenal founded the TGP as a printing collective in Mexico in 1937. It was founded as a collective to “help the Mexican people defend and enrich their national culture” by producing art that “reflect[s] the social reality of the times.” Like the TGP, the UFW wanted to express their social reality as well. Therefore, this particular print expressed the suffering that the farmworkers were subjected to due to the maltreatment of the landowners.

Jesus Escobedo

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

El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California

June 16, 1966 (newspaper), date of artwork unknown

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Courtesy of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA

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