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Recently, my colleague Jose Del Real wrote about the role of LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, the Mexican-American community center and museum in downtown Los Angeles, in educating visitors about many of the lesser known — and darker — narratives from the city’s history.

In an exhibition that’s open there now, the artist Linda Vallejo aims to counter the fact that the perspectives of Latinos are still too often overlooked — even if she knows she doesn’t have all the answers to complex questions about identity and what it means to be a person of color in the United States.

“How I think about myself as a brown person, how I feel about myself and how the world sees me,” Ms. Vallejo told me recently. “I think we need a safe space to be able to speak about these things.”