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![Speeches on Race and Immigration (Part 1)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CD 605Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Speeches by Ignatious Bau, Andres Jiminez, Bill McNeill, Irma Manoz and Angela Chu on race and immigration experiences in the United States
copy of SS 034A
![Role of Mujeres en el Movimiento, Partido](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/3/1972Call Number: CD 830Format: CDProducers: Nina SerranoCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Maria Elena Gaitan breaks down stereotypes of the "docile" Latina. She speaks of the responsibility of educating, role of women in el movimiento, immigrants, CASA, and sexual exploitation. She explains that they are not trying to build a separatist movement. Political and economic crisis in Mexico creates problems for Mexican migrants that come to the United States; mujeres deal with the INS under stressful conditions and are often sexually and physically abused. She speaks specifically of the Sisters from Texas Raza Unida Party. Some women wanted a Caucus, and others felt there was no need for it. "It is up to us to educate each other. With out further communication there will only be further division. Out of 16 States, 10 are represented. The fact that we sat down (as women) was important, so we could relate to each other."
![La Chicana en el Movimiento](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/22/1972Call Number: CD 833Format: CDProducers: Irene (Bernice) Ramirez, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
From East LA to the Bay area and beyond, Las mujeres de la Raza speak out.
Discuss the La Raza Unida Conference. Ideas include: education in la familia, welfare, labor and immigration, male/female roles, abortion, drug abuse, teacher/student relationship.
Maria Elena Gaytan speaks powerfully about situations facing today’s Chicanas, and addresses the need for the community to mobilize. She talks in specific detail about the Mexican economy and the US hand involved, Chicanos v. Mexicanos, outsourcing, border policies, voting protocol for La Raza Unida, and the Dixon Arnett Law.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #1: How, when, and why they came.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/1/1963Call Number: CD 845Format: CDProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Details a brief history of California from the conquest of Spain until the early 1900s. Discusses missionaries, the development of pueblos (mission settlements), and immigration from US to Mexico in the early 1900s. Interviews from Californians about family immigration narratives.
Discussion of the reasons for immigration from Mexico to US following the years after the onset of the Mexican Revolution; includes discussion of Bracero Program, Operation Wetback, and immigration narratives.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #3 Culture and the question of language.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/15/1963Call Number: CD 847Format: CDProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discusses how closely Californians of Mexican descent retain Mexican language and culture. Multiple interviews about the use of Spanish and English. The danger of the loss of cultural identity, assimilation, inferiority, and bilingualism.
Various interviews conducted; discussion of the challenges of the acquisition/retention of Spanish with each generation of Mexican Americans, Spanglish or code switching, the role of communities in language usage; literacy, and the interest or lack thereof in Mexican and Spanish language literature.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #7 The matter of taste.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/12/1963Call Number: CD 851Format: CDProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Explores the extent of Mexican Americans’ attachment to Mexican food. Extended interview with restaurant owner and chef that details staples of Mexican cuisine and diet.
Examines in great detail staples of Mexican cuisine and diet.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #8 The Mexican family in California.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/19/1963Call Number: CD 852Format: CDProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Examines family and kinship relationships of Mexicans in the US. Includes interviews with anthropologists, and Californians of Mexican descent. Discussion of family structure, the role of tradition and class, and the clash of Mexican and US culture.
Examines the parent-child relationships, views on courtship, and other cultural patterns in the family life of Mexican Americans.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #9 The question of faith.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/26/1963Call Number: CD 853Format: CDProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Explores the role of religion in Mexican American communities. Discussion of how Catholicism is practiced in US by Mexican Americans.
Discusses the growing role of Protestant religion in Mexican American communities, conversion, and other beliefs, such as superstitions.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #10 Their values and psychology.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/3/1963Call Number: CD 854Format: CDProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Explores to what extent do Californians of Mexican descent retain moral concepts and philosophical attitudes associated with Mexican culture under the impact of US values. Various interviews.
Explores factors that impact self-perception and values of Californians of Mexican descent, including the role of schools and communities.
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