Abstract Vista en LA is a contemporary, popular music, entertainment magazine aimed at the Latino Spanish speaking audience with wide cross-over English speaking audiences in Southern California. Through the years (mid 1980s to the present day), the magazine has undergone a number of name changes and has sustained an important place in the Latino community. The publishers Manny and Maria Elena Piedra started the magazine in the mid 1980s and to their credit have been able to successfully publish...

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This collection of papers represents the research material Kelly Lytle Hernandez used for her book: MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010). The book is a history and analysis of the U.S. Border Patrol and how it polices unsanctioned immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border.

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This is a small collection donated by Lorena Parlee's mother to the Center in 2007. It consists of LP records, color slides and papers related to her films, Mexico and Break of Dawn.