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  When Your Mother Asks You Who You Are

  title When Your Mother Asks You Who You Are 

  description Acrylic and commercial latex paint on sheetrock wall board of Sacramento Concilio Farmworker Program Dining Hall, 1911 F Street, Sacramento. Mural in progress featuring Louie the Foot's poem "When Your Mother Asks You Who You Are". Text reads, "Cry on your pyramids memories/ Tu corazón no se recuerda/ tu corazón no se recuerda/ the sun is still your father/ planting maiz for Moctezuma./ The land is still your mother/ eso nunca olvidarás/ eso nunca olvidarás/ giving birth to magic children/ eso nunca olvidarás c/s".  Cat.8 043(1)  Sacramento-based chicano artist and counding member of the Royal Chicano Air Force.  The artist of any work retains all rights to that work. Copyright has not been assigned to the Regents of the University of California. The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. No further reproduction is permitted without prior written permission by the artist or copyright holder. Any requests for permission to reproduce this piece must be directed to: Royal Chicano Air Force c/o California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives Library – CEMA University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-8563 E-mail: cema@library.ucsb.edu Web: http://www.rcaf.info/ 

  artist/creator Villa, Esteban 

  subject Mexican American Art  Montezuma I, Emperor Of Mexico, 1398-1469  Mural Art  Chicano Art  Poetry  Mexican Americans  Chicanos 

  contributor Calisphere