Película y Platica
(film & discussion)
The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo
This is a fresh and genre-defying film about the life of radical Chicano lawyer, author and countercultural icon Oscar Zeta Acosta, the basis for the character Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, written by legendary journalist-provocateur Hunter S. Thompson. View on PBS Information about the film by Benicio Del Toro "The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo" + Discussion Guide & Study Guide
Willie Velasquez: Your Vote is Your Voice
William C. Velásquez was the founder of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project in 1974. He envisioned a time when Latinos would play an important role in the American Democratic process. His legacy began in Texas. Read more: wcvi.org/wcvbio.htm
The Longoria Affair
Sixty years ago in Three Rivers, Texas, the only funeral home in town refused to hold a wake for Felix Longoria, a decorated Mexican American soldier killed in battle during World War II. Longoria’s widow was told, simply, “The whites wouldn’t like it.”
Those words became front-page news across the country, sparking outrage and setting off a series of events that would come to be known as the Longoria Affair. The incident fueled the rise of a national civil rights movement led by Mexican American veterans, and bitterly divided Three Rivers for generations to come.
Two stubborn and savvy leaders, newly elected Senator Lyndon Johnson and activist Dr. Hector Garcia, formed an alliance over the incident. Over the next 15 years, their complex, sometimes contentious relationship would help Latinos become a national force for the first time in American history, carry John F. Kennedy to the White House, and ultimately lead to Johnson’s signature on the most important civil rights legislation of the 20th century.
Today the town of Three Rivers still struggles with its past. Local musician and activist Santiago Hernandez wants to honor Felix Longoria by naming the post office after him. But many Anglo residents are angered by the idea. They believe discrimination against Mexican Americans never existed in their town and the Longoria Affair was blown up for political gain.
Past and present collide as Mexican Americans and Anglo Americans engage in a bitter struggle over the meaning of civil rights and the history of segregation.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/longoria-affair/
Those words became front-page news across the country, sparking outrage and setting off a series of events that would come to be known as the Longoria Affair. The incident fueled the rise of a national civil rights movement led by Mexican American veterans, and bitterly divided Three Rivers for generations to come.
Two stubborn and savvy leaders, newly elected Senator Lyndon Johnson and activist Dr. Hector Garcia, formed an alliance over the incident. Over the next 15 years, their complex, sometimes contentious relationship would help Latinos become a national force for the first time in American history, carry John F. Kennedy to the White House, and ultimately lead to Johnson’s signature on the most important civil rights legislation of the 20th century.
Today the town of Three Rivers still struggles with its past. Local musician and activist Santiago Hernandez wants to honor Felix Longoria by naming the post office after him. But many Anglo residents are angered by the idea. They believe discrimination against Mexican Americans never existed in their town and the Longoria Affair was blown up for political gain.
Past and present collide as Mexican Americans and Anglo Americans engage in a bitter struggle over the meaning of civil rights and the history of segregation.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/longoria-affair/
The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man
The grim legacy of America's treatment of its native peoples is explored in detail in this documentary. Filmmakers Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman take the perspective that if one is to define "genocide" as the a deliberate effort by a government to exterminate a people, then the United States is clearly guilty of the crime given their actions against America's indigenous population over the past 300 years. Davey and Thunder Woman back up their argument with footage detailing the economic marginalization of American Indians, the consistent violation of legal agreements reached with native tribes, the mismanagement and consistent neglect of Indian reservations, the brutalization of Native Americans as they were segregated onto flinty soil and forced to live under substandard conditions, and the refusal of the mass media to report stories of suicide and Columbine-style school shootings among reservation youth. The Canary Effect was screened in competition at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
Walkout
Sal Castro was a Chicano activist and social studies teacher at Lincoln High School in East Los Angeles who played a leading role in the 1968 Chicano students walkouts. With Castro's advice and guidance, more than 20,000 students walked out of five East L.A. schools demanding educational and systemic reform within the Los Angeles Unified School District -- more Mexican American history courses, more Mexican American teachers and more schools - this at a time when schools were run-down and drop-out rates were high. Although the Supreme Court had ordered an end to segregation, nothing had ended the discrimination that schools still practiced routinely - students were not allowed to speak Spanish otherwise they would be swatted, girls were nudged into secretarial courses and boys funneled into industrial arts. The "walkouts" or "blowouts" was the first major mass protest against racism by Mexican Americans in the history of the United States.
This short film was produced for the National Hispanic Media Coalition's Impact Awards Gala in 2006 of which Sal Castro was awarded the Impact Award for Outstanding Service and Commitment to the Latino Community.
This film is written by and narrated by Los Angeles Times Op-Ed columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Patt Morrison, produced by documentary filmmaker Alison Sotomayor, and edited by Noe Carillo.
This short film was produced for the National Hispanic Media Coalition's Impact Awards Gala in 2006 of which Sal Castro was awarded the Impact Award for Outstanding Service and Commitment to the Latino Community.
This film is written by and narrated by Los Angeles Times Op-Ed columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Patt Morrison, produced by documentary filmmaker Alison Sotomayor, and edited by Noe Carillo.
Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth is a 1954 American drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their alleged involvement in communist politics.
This drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centers on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico. In the film, the company is identified as "Delaware Zinc," and the setting is "Zinctown, New Mexico." The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police react during the strike. In neorealist style, the producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film.
Teaching Resources http://zinnedproject.org/materials/salt-of-the-earth-grounds-students-in-hope/
This drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centers on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico. In the film, the company is identified as "Delaware Zinc," and the setting is "Zinctown, New Mexico." The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police react during the strike. In neorealist style, the producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film.
Teaching Resources http://zinnedproject.org/materials/salt-of-the-earth-grounds-students-in-hope/
The Lemon Grove Incident
The struggle to end school segregation is usually linked to the 1954 Supreme Court case of Brown v the Board of Education. However, many of the nation's earliest desegregation cases occurred in the American Southwest and they involved Mexican American students. The Lemon Grove Incident is the true story of one of those cases.
The Zoot Suit Riots
Zoot Suit Riots Written and Produced by Joseph Tovares, Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, 1942.
A Class Apart
From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination.
https://webertube.com/video/26383/american-experience-a-class-apart
https://webertube.com/video/26383/american-experience-a-class-apart
Chicano! Quest for a Homeland
Full-length documentary: Reies Lopez Tijerina and the movement to return the Tierra Amarilla land grant to the residents of the town of San Joaquin de Chama; Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez and the Chicano Youth Liberation Conference.
Chicano! The Struggle In The Fields
Full-length documentary about César Chávez and the UFW Grape Boycott.
Chicano! Taking Back the Schools
Full-length documentary about the Chicano Student Movement in East L.A. in 1968
Chicano! Fighting for Political Power
Full-length documentary about the politics of the Chicano Movement, and the Raza Unida Party.
Cesar Chavez
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Born near Yuma, Arizona, on March 31, 1927, Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the plight of farmworkers, and formed both the National Farm Workers Association, which later became United Farm Workers. As a labor leader, Chavez led marches, called for boycotts and went on several hunger strikes. It is believed that Chavez's hunger strikes contributed to his death on April 23, 1993, in San Luis, Arizona. |
John F. Kennedy's Address to Lulac, 21 Nov 1963
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A newly rediscovered audio recording of President John F. Kennedy speaking at the Rice Hotel the night before he died has been released.
Associated Press reporter Russell Contreras, who is working on a book about JFK's remarks to the League of United Latin American Citizens on Nov. 21, 1963, said he found the recording a couple months ago on the website of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
Read more at: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Newly-rediscovered-tape-of-JFK-s-Houston-speech-4565921.php#item-19596
Associated Press reporter Russell Contreras, who is working on a book about JFK's remarks to the League of United Latin American Citizens on Nov. 21, 1963, said he found the recording a couple months ago on the website of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
Read more at: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Newly-rediscovered-tape-of-JFK-s-Houston-speech-4565921.php#item-19596
Frida Kahlo
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.“ ~ Frida Kahlo |
Frida - Movie Soundtrack
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For more information on Frida Kahlo's revolution, life, and works https://www.artsy.net/artist/frida-kahlo
Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection
documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American
publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles,San Francisco,
and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
Click on the photo to go to http://www.library.arizona.edu/contentdm/mmap/