Professor Harry Gamboa Jr.’s first masterpiece involved a couple cans of spray paint and a wall at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which served as his canvas. In 1972, Gamboa and two other...

John Travolta and Chicano studies professor Annette Cardona dancing on the set of the movie "Grease". Courtesy of Annette Cardona It wasn’t until she was an adult that Annette Cardona’s mother...

A colleague once asked Professor Charles Hatfield if his attraction to mass culture was connected to it being not region specific, and that if it was a constant while his family moved a lot throughout...