History of Red-Brown Journalism and Communications: Or the Art of Story-Telling

Abstract

My point of reference for Mexicans and Chicanas/Chicanos is maiz culture, which is metaphorically 7,000 years old—when scientists estimate that corn was created in Southern Mexico. This essay, however, tends to concentrate on what is referred to as Chicano Journalism—a journalism associated with the 1960s-1970s. In one sense, Chicano or Chicana journalism refers to a style, however, it also refers to publications that had their apex during that era. Thus, that style of co-mingling Spanish and English, of being irreverent and politically left and in pursuit of justice has not gone away. At the same time, some publications from that genre continue, particularly on the internet.