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In the wake of Adolescence, should we call time on mainstream TV’s diet of gentleness?

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Column: Cruising into the mainstream with a lowrider professor

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Standing in front of about 50 people at Cal State Northridge’s Art Galleries Saturday afternoon, Denise Sandoval fumbled with the mic hanging around her neck and apologized. “I’m not as cool as Janet Jackson,” the professor of Chicana and Chicano studies said. Her curated tour of the show everyone was there to see — a … Read more