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Experience the murals of East L.A.
 Los Angeles is known as the “mural capital of the world.” The epicenter
of this movement is in East L.A., where contemporary Chicano murals
portray everything from celebrities to Mexican-American history to
remembering victims of gang violence.
One of the best places to see murals is the Estrada Courts housing
project, 3200-3300 E. Olympic Blvd. Some of the murals that originally
kicked off the L.A. muralist movement can be found here. The famed “We
Are Not a Minority” mural, a tribute to Che Guevara, is also here.
Doris Lee ’07 grew up in inner-city Los Angeles, surrounded by these
murals on a daily basis. “This type of everyday art is a complete
contrast to the current idea of art as pure, for its own sake,” she
says. “This art was used to tell positive stories of history and
political triumph, for decorations on the side of neighborhood stores
and for gangs who want to tell the story of a lost one.”
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