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Ingram, who has since married and now uses the name Burciaga, testified for the prosecution on April 24.
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Ingram, who has since married and now uses the name Burciaga, testified for the prosecution on April 24.
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Buena Park Police Detective Eric Burciaga says a tipster revealed that the car had been parked on the lot since the day of the killing.
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Central among the outstanding artistic representatives of Chicanismo is JoséAntonio Burciaga, whose book Drink Cultura-C/S (1993) and murals Mythology of Maize and Last Supper of Chicano Heroes explore its core meanings.
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Burciaga conceived the Mythology of Maiz mural for an inside wall of the Casa Zapata Dining Hall at Stanford University in 1985, and finished painting it May 1987.
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Using the mythically valuable number six as a constant (six humans, six corn stalks, six animals, and six ant tunnels in the shape of a rib cage), Burciaga painted a Chicano mural representing elements of the many Maya myths surrounding maíz and its creation.
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Burciaga called la muerte a heroine, and great avenger and savior from la vida.
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Burciaga realized that the survey responses collectively reimagined the definition of a Chicano hero/ine as a mythical, historical, symbolic, military or popular culture figure.
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As a positive response to the negative reaction of some students to his Mexicanized Last Supper, Burciaga decided to replace the figures of Christ and his twelve apostles with those of thirteen Chicano heroes.
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Burciaga decided that the top thirteen vote getters should sit at the table, and those who got fewer votes should stand behind them.
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