Author Archives | Carlos Vásquez
Carlos Vásquez, a native New Mexican, is a graduate of UCLA and Stanford University with graduate degrees in Social Theory and History. He has taught at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and the University of New Mexico. He is the author or editor of several books and numerous exhibition catalogues. Since 1999 he has been the Director of History and Literary Arts at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. In that capacity Dr. Vasquez founded the National Latino Writers Conference in 2002 which will celebrate its 11th anniversary in May of 2014.
The New Deal Revisited in Symposium and Exhibit (This Saturday)
The New Deal lasted only a decade. But in that decade thousands of bridges in the country were refurbished or built new; thousands of miles of roads were built, hundreds of post offices, schools and community centers were built or festooned with New Deal art provided by unemployed artists, many products of the nation’s best art institutions.
Some of our national icons were completed during the period like the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam. Three million young men worked in Civilian Conservation Camps, many living outside their communities for the first time...
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02. October 2013
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