Rock Archivo de LÁ: Mapping Transnational Latinx Music Scenes

Jorge Nicolás Leal is assistant professor of Mexican American history at the University of California, Riverside. He is a cultural and urban historian who focuses on the impact of transnational youth cultures on Southern California Latina/o/x communities in the late twentieth century. Leal’s writings have been published in academic journals such as European Journal of American Culture, Journal of American Ethnic History, and Journal of California History, among others. As a public historian, he has served as curator of the Boyle Heights Museum and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Downtown Los Angeles. The Rock Archivo de LÁ, a crowd-sourced archive that collects, shares, and examines Latinx youth cultures ephemera, is also under his curatorship. He may be contacted at [email protected].