Marissa López discusses erasure of L.A.’s Mexican history on Spectrum News 1
Sean Brenner I UCLA
In a recent appearance on Spectrum News 1, Marissa López spoke about the widespread erasure of Los Angeles’ Mexican history — and a mobile app she created to help keep that history alive.
López, a UCLA professor of English and of Chicana and Chicano and Central American Studies, appeared on the cable channel’s “In Focus SoCal” as part of a segment celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.
She explained the motivation for developing the Picturing Mexican America app, which launched this year.
“Even if people know that California — and really all of the Southwest — used to be Mexico, we don’t think about it that much. We don’t often have occasion to see it around us; we’re not reminded of it in our daily lives,” Lopez said. “And I wanted to create something that would not just tell people about how California used to be part of Mexico, but to give them opportunities to think about it on their own terms, in their own time.”
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