The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project
Location
KIPJ Room EF
Session Type
40-minute concurrent session
Start Date
29-4-2024 1:45 PM
End Date
29-4-2024 2:25 PM
Abstract
The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project documents the history of lowriding in San Diego and the surrounding borderlands, from the 1950s through today. The project includes photographs, car club documents and memorabilia, official records, meeting minutes, dance posters and lowrider art. These materials reflect important qualities of the lowrider movement: creativity, independence, cultural pride, resistance, activism, community service, collectivism, tradition and ritual, and cultural continuity
The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project
KIPJ Room EF
The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project documents the history of lowriding in San Diego and the surrounding borderlands, from the 1950s through today. The project includes photographs, car club documents and memorabilia, official records, meeting minutes, dance posters and lowrider art. These materials reflect important qualities of the lowrider movement: creativity, independence, cultural pride, resistance, activism, community service, collectivism, tradition and ritual, and cultural continuity
Comments
Professor Alberto Pulido was hired by the University of San Diego to establish the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Diego in 2003. From the outset, Pulido’s vision was to honor the legacy and history of our local communities in learning and experiencing the strength and value of ethnic studies. He was inspired by many community and family voices who framed his intellectual and foundational epistemology that established his passion for knowledge and truth rooted in community and life experience. This led Pulido to align himself with several communities organizations and guides and none more important than the Chicano Park Steering Committee who serve as the stewards of Chicano Park in San Diego, California. He learned a great deal about community organizing through collective struggle and self-determination. This would guide and inspire him to direct and co-produce an award winning documentary on the history and value of lowriding as a cultural expression in the borderlands of San Diego and Tijuana. Soon after, he would be approached by the acquisition editor for History Press to write a book that would augment the history of lowrider culture in San Diego. In conjunction with the San Diego lowrider community and Digital Librarian Amanda Makula from Copley Library, the University of San Diego is now home to the only Digital Lowrider Archive in the world.