Muralist Judith Baca's Great Wall of Los Angeles

What is it about?

In this article, I consider the Great Wall of Los Angeles narrative as a conceptual zone of articulation between mainstream history and different and layered minority histories. Together with dozens of artists, and hundreds of youths and community members muralist Judith Baca created a narrative that reveals a fault line between history-making and history-telling, suggesting that many of the nation’s achievements were accomplished by people who were systematically and intentionally erased from the historical narrative.

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Why is it important?

The paper illuminates the ways that the Great Wall of Los Angeles’s counter-hegemonic narrative comes into conflict with the grand narratives of its time by making visible the webs of oppression that were developed throughout the nation’s history and which affected many different ethnic groups.