Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez’s artwork: ‘Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe.’ Yolanda Lopez, CC BY-NC-ND by Judith Huacuja, University of Dayton In 1975, Chicano artist Amado M. Peña depicted police brutality by showing the bloodied head of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, whom Dallas police had shot for allegedly stealing $8 from a vending … Continued
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