El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 4, "Protesta de una madre contra la guerra (Protest of a mother against war)"
United Farm Workers, newspaper, El Malcriado
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 issue number 4, the cover depicts a print from artist Andrea Gomez. The image was made in Mexico City, Mexico in 1952. This particular image and artist was chosen because she was a descendant from a famous revolutionary family, as described in the second page of this edition. Therefore, the artist, like several of the farmworkers, were descendants of the Mexican Revolution.
Andrea Gomez
El Taller de Grafica Popular print in El Malcriado, UFW newspaper
El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California
1965 (newspaper), 1952 (artwork)
Courtesy of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA
ink on paper
Spanish
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.
artist unknown
El Taller de Grafica Popular print in El Malcriado, UFW newspaper
El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California
1965
Courtesy of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA
El Malcriado, United Farm Workers
ink on paper
Spanish, English
La revolución y la seguridad social (The revolution and social security)
Zapata, Mexican Revolution
Angel Bracho
El Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico
ca. 1950
Courtesy of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA
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