Title:
Sun Mad
Creator/Contributor:
Hernandez, Ester, Artist
Date:
1982
Subject:
Calaveras
Chicana art
Chicanas
Chicano art
Chicanos
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Prints
Pesticides
Note:
Poster mimics the design of the Sun-Maid raisins box. Instead of a maid, however, is a skeleton. Text reads: "SUN MAD Raisins
unnaturally grown with Insecticides, Miticides, Herbicides, Fungicides." "Salvador Torres as a young man picked grapes for
W.A. Taylor Wine Co.-Almaden buys out WAT, Salvador Torres spends the summers of his adolescent years in rural and urban life
styles. Los Baños, and Hollister, La Cienega, "San Benito Vineyards", housing/camp for the permanent farm workers. Ms. Hernandez
"Sun Mad" comment on serious pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, are used by Salvador Torres in a lecture about the Toxic
Racism Barrio Logan is enduring with deceptive City of San Diego Planning Department abuse of "Coexistence" fallacies between
Plating & Welding Company's emitting 21.0 Hexavalent Chromium (ng/m) deadly cancerous chemicals in our Barrio Logan air spaces.
See [Temp ID] #3-173-A Salvador Torres environmental rescue efforts. Salvador Torres recalls the dust croppers airplanes
flying two wingers over and around our many farm workers campsites then spraying the near by crops. As children, Salvador
Torres and others delighted in seeing the pilot, who sometimes would wave back to them as he roared past." Salvador Torres
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Type:
35mm slide
Language:
English
Identifier:
CEMA 38
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