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Portrait of Martin Luther with city view in background.

This oral history, conducted in Tijuana and Chihuahua, Mexico, contains interviews with different individuals Dr. Cummings encountered while walking around the two cities. She first speaks to a group of cholas in Tijuana. The next interview was…

This compilation of interviews was taken in a dance club in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico and features several people. The interviewer asks men and women in the club what barrio they belong to, how they became part of it, and whether they had to fight…

Dr. Cummings interviews a thirty-eight-year-old male from San Antonio, Texas, who she described as a “professional male.” The interviewee recounts his childhood and his experiences with pachucos in San Antonio. He recalls that it was common to…

A sixty-nine-year-old woman born and raised in Tucson, Arizona talks about her life history and experiences. She begins by talking about her parents, who were from Michoacán, Mexico, and who moved around looking for work before settling in Tucson.…

This interview features the same man from Tape 13 listening and commenting on the George C. Barker interviews with pachuco language speakers. He makes a variety of observations about pachucos, drawing on his experiences while citing articles and…

In this short interview, the same woman from Tape 15 listens to and comments on a segment of a George C. Barker interviews with pachuco language speakers. She explains how she picked up the language by being around people who spoke it, especially her…

A male born in 1926 in Brownsville, Texas, speaks about his life history and experiences. He explains that he and his family were migrant farmworkers who mainly picked cotton. He details some of his experiences as a pachuco, and starts by telling the…

In this second interview, a male born in Brownsville, Texas in 1926, discusses his life experiences further. He begins by speaking more about his youth. As a child, since he often helped his parents pick crops, he was not able to receive a…

A woman named Aurora Arrieta details a dispute she witnessed from her window at the Santa Regina Hotel in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Ms. Arrieta explains that at around 11 at night, she heard voices on the street and a woman screaming. She looked out the…

Louie and Ida Rivera, a married couple living in Barrio Hollywood in Tucson, Arizona discuss their life histories and comment on aspects of pachuco culture and its language, Caló. Louie was born in 1927 in Jerome, Arizona and after some time in the…

Josefina Padilla talks about her life and family history, in addition to telling some anecdotes about pachucos. She starts by telling the story of her birth because she was born in Hermosillo just months before the Mexican Revolution started, on the…

Ghost Diary was produced by Maureen Cummins in the winter of 2003, with typographic assistance from Kathy McMillan and metalwork by Gary Dodge. The text of the book is based on a handwritten letter discovered by the artist in the archive of Weir Farm…

Femmes Fatales was produced by Maureen Cummins in the summer of 2001, with typographic assistance from Kathy McMillan and die-cutting by Earl Kallemeyen. The typefaces used in the book were New Century Schoolbook and Kunstle Script. All borders and…

Print shows women lining up at a ballot box, A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line.

A video communicating the stories of O’odham reservation residents during the pandemic.

Image of a Lego sculpture created by Lego artist Dave Shaddix for Bennuval!

Manuel de la Rosa, reporter for the High School Sports Magazine, talks about his career along the border and how the situation has changed over the years. Describing the kind of crimes taking place in the area and how it is hard to trust their…

The cover for the Hermandad.

The image of a cover for the Historias y Recuerdos podcast.