Chicano! The Quest for a Homeland (PBS)
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February 4, 2013
February 4, 2013
Chicano! The Struggle in the Fields (PBS)
February 4, 2013
Chicano! Fighting for Political Power (PBS)
February 4, 2013
Chicano! Taking Back the Schools (PBS)
February 4, 2013
Miguel Chavez on the History of the Chicana/o Westside of Los Angeles
November 11, 2012
A Natural History of Chicano Literature: Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera traveled as a child with his parents through many small farming towns and cities in California, until finally settling in San Diego. He has taught poetry from kindergarten to the university level and is the author of numerous poetry and children’s books, including Calling The Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award, and Crashboomlove, which was prized with the Americas Award. He also wrote Upside Down Boy, which was adapted into a musical in New York City, and Laughing Out Loud, I Fly, winner of a Pura Belpré honor award. He holds the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. [9/2005] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 11119]
August 2, 2011
History is A Weapon
History Is A Weapon is a left counter-hegemonic education project.
July 26, 2011
Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California
This book unravels the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of “white supremacy” in the state. Drawing from an array of primary and secondary sources, Tomás Almaguer weaves a detailed, disturbing portrait of ethnic, racial, and class relationships during this tumultuous time. A new preface looks at the invaluable contribution the book has made to our understanding of ethnicity and class in America and of the social construction of “race” in the Far West.
Tomás Almaguer is Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.
July 21, 2011
On August 29, 1970, a “Chicano Moratorium” against the war in Vietnam was held in East L.A. Loyola-Marymount film student Tom Myrdahl shot this documentary, capturing the events that unfolded as law enforcement and protesters clashed in and around Laguna Park. This film has not been seen in nearly 40 years. Tom, who is still a working cameraman in Los Angeles, is putting this historic film on the web as a tribute to the brave citizens of East L.A. who came together 40 years ago to voice their dissent against the Vietnam War.
July 10, 2011
Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings - Alma Garcia, Ed.
Chicana Feminist Thought brings together the voices of Chicana poets, writers, and activists who reflect upon the Chicana Feminist Movement that began in the late 1960s. With energy and passion, this anthology of writings documents the personal and collective political struggles of Chicana feminists.
July 10, 2011
Working the Boundaries: Race, Space and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago by Nicholas De Genova
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While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation; the politics of nativism; and the structures of citizenship and immigration law. Nicholas De Genova develops a theory of “Mexican Chicago” as a transnational social and geographic space that joins Chicago to innumerable communities throughout Mexico. “Mexican Chicago” is a powerful analytical tool, a challenge to the way that social scientists have thought about immigration and pluralism in the United States, and the basis for a wide-ranging critique of U.S. notions of race, national identity, and citizenship.
De Genova worked for two and a half years as a teacher of English in ten industrial workplaces (primarily metal-fabricating factories) throughout Chicago and its suburbs. InWorking the Boundaries he draws on fieldwork conducted in these factories, in community centers, and in the homes and neighborhoods of Mexican migrants. He describes how the meaning of “Mexican” is refigured and racialized in relation to a U.S. social order dominated by a black-white binary. Delving into immigration law, he contends that immigration policies have worked over time to produce Mexicans as the U.S. nation-state’s iconic “illegal aliens.” He explains how the constant threat of deportation is used to keep Mexican workers in line. Working the Boundaries is a major contribution to theories of race and transnationalism and a scathing indictment of U.S. labor and citizenship policies.
June 27, 2011
Lorena Oropeza, Author of Raza Si! Guerra No! and Associate Professor of History at UC Davis speaking with Charly Trujillo, Vietnam War Veteran awarded the Purple Heart and a native of Corcoran, a small agricultural community of the San Joaquin Valley of California. After his discharge he continued his education and received a BA from UC Berkeley and an MA from San José State University. He is the award-winning author of Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam and Dogs From Illusion. Event hosted by David Montejano at the Center for Policy Research (UC Berkeley)
June 24, 2011
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism
Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibalswas one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s
most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern “civilized” lifestyle is more relevant now than ever before.
June 20, 2011
Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770's to 1880's
“Conquest usually has a negative impact on the vanquished, but it can also provide the disenfranchised in conquered societies new tools for advancement within their families and
This is a very good book that shows the richness of employing gender, class, race, and ethnicity as analytic tools
—Journal of the West
Negotiating Conquest is a must-read for anyone interested in the process of conquest and colonialism or in the history of early California
—The Journal of San Diego History
This book dramatically and thoroughly documents the transition to the American era and the resulting legal, economic, political, cultural, and social transformation
—Western Legal Historycommunities. This study examines the ways in which Mexican and Native women challenged the patriarchal traditional culture of the Spanish, Mexican, and early American eras in California, tracing the shifting contingencies surrounding their lives from the imposition of Spanish Catholic colonial rule in the 1770s to the ascendancy of Euro-American Protestant capitalist society in the 1880s.Negotiating Conquest begins with an examination of how gender and ethnicity shaped the policies and practices of the Spanish conquest, showing that Hispanic women, marriage, and the family played a central role in producing a stable society on Mexico’s northernmost frontier. It then examines how gender, law, property, and ethnicity shaped social and class relations among Mexicans and native peoples, focusing particularly on how women dealt with the gender-, class-, and ethnic-based hierarchies that gave Mexican men patriarchal authority. With the American takeover in 1846, the text’s focus shifts to how the imposition of foreign legal, economic, linguistic, and cultural norms affected the status of Mexican women, male-female relations, and the family. Addressing such issues as divorce, legitimacy, and inheritance, it describes the manner in which the conquest weakened the economic position of both Mexican women and men while at the same time increasing the leverage of Mexican women in their personal and social relationships with men. Drawing on archival materials—including dozens of legal cases—that have been largely ignored by other scholars, Chávez-García examines federal, state, and municipal laws across many periods in order to reveal how women used changing laws, institutions, and norms governing property, marriage and sexuality, and family relations to assert and protect their rights. By showing that mexicanas contested the limits of male rule and insisted that patriarchal relationships be based on reciprocity, Negotiating Conquest expands our knowledge of how patriarchy functioned and evolved as it reveals the ways in which conquest can transform social relationships in both family and community. ”
June 9, 2011
Barrios Nortenos: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century - Dionicio Valdes
Mexican communities in the Midwestern United States have a history that extends back to the turn of the twentieth century, when a demand for workers in several mass industries brought Mexican agricultural laborers to jobs and homes in the cities. This book offers a comprehensive social, labor, and cultural history of these workers and their descendants, using the Mexican barrio of “San Pablo” (St. Paul) Minnesota as a window on the region.
Through extensive archival research and numerous interviews, Dennis Valdés explores how Mexicans created ethnic spaces in Midwestern cities and how their lives and communities have changed over the course of the twentieth century. He examines the process of community building before World War II, the assimilation of Mexicans into the industrial working class after the war, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent changes resulting from industrial restructuring and unprecedented migration and population growth. Throughout, Valdés pays particular attention to Midwestern Mexicans’ experiences of inequality and struggles against domination and compares them to Mexicans’ experiences in other regions of the U.S.
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