This collection of original artwork from the touring show America en la Mira represents about seventy-five percent of the original works in the show. The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center came to "own" these images by default. The show came to UCLA in 1980 and was left here, and we have been the caretaker since.

This prefatory essay by Alfonso Espitia Huerta, Director del Museo de Arte Contemporano de Morelia is illustrative of the show's intentions:

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