"Gentrification" (El Centro Chicano Mural)

"Gentrification" (El Centro Chicano Mural)

First Image: Photograph of a mural titled "Gentrification" on the El Centro Chicano building

Second Image: Photograph of a slide depicting a mural titled "Gentrification" on the El Centro Chicano building

This mural was painted by Raul Valdez on the outside of the El Centro Chicano building, located on East 1st Street Austin, TX in 1977. The building was destroyed by arson in 1978.

The mural depicts (L to R) four (4) protesters with signs in the background with a crying child in the foreground, a house being demolished by a machine in the background and a mother cradling a child with a woman in a white t-shirt kneeling next to her in the foreground, a line of police in riot gear, a billboard that reads "City of Austin," and behind the police, a white man in a suit at a table with a pile of money surrounded by three (3) white figures. Behind this group is a man of color and the Texas State Capitol Building in the distance. Another man of color is pictured in the foreground gathering coins that have fallen from the table.

Raul Valdez

First Image: Raul Valdez Murals Portfolio
Second Image: Benson Latin American Collection Box: Miscellaneous Photographs Folder: #024

1977
1979

Image slide, photograph

http://www.raulvaldez.net/page2/files/page2-1052-full.html

Austin, Texas