MEDIA: “The Western’s ‘Forgotten People’ by Chon A. Noriega”

By Joe Ortiz

June 1, 2016

CSRC director Chon A. Noriega’s 2009 Aztlán article was reprinted in Joe Ortiz’s blog, It Seems to Me… The article discusses the portrayals of Mexicans in silent-era Hollywood Westerns and the equally problematic scholarship on race in the Western genre and its “greaser” subgenre.