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2025 - 2026 Society of Scholars
2021 - 2022 Society of Scholars Fellow
José Alaniz (he/him/his)
Comics and Chicanx Art (1960-1980)
This project examines the intersection of comics and comics iconography (e.g. superheroes) in Chicanx Art of the Chicanismo era of the 1960s and 1970s, by art collectives such as Con Safos, Asco, Mechanismo, Self-Help Graphics & Art, Los Four and the Royal Chicano Airforce. I approach this highly politicized art, made to assail the status quo of ethnicity and class in America and to cheer on a social revolution, chiefly through an Art History and Comics Studies lens.