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Image credit: © Devra Weber. From the La Raza Photograph Collection. Courtesy of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

The 1968 Walkouts were among the first student demonstrations to confront injustice and inequity in the United States public school system.

Join photographers Oscar Castillo and Devra Weber in conversation as they reflect on their work as artists and documentarians during this pivotal time in United States history.

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Moderated by UCLA Professor Emeritus Dr. Carlos Manuel Haro.

Participant Biographies

Oscar Castillo’s extensive photographic work documenting the Chicano community over the past forty years offers a distinctive visual challenge to the stereotypical representation of East Los Angeles as violent or exotic.

It does so by maintaining a calm, almost matter-of-fact gaze on everyday barrio life, the post-urban renewal landscape, and the cultural practices and political events that redefine public space. Castillo was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1945 and