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![Pajaro Latino](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/28/2000Call Number: JH 627AFormat: Cass AProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Musica de mujeres de latinoAmerica; machu-Pichu/Pablo neruda; Gracias/Epilogo de Jose Saramago; comunidado EZLN del 22 de diciembre
![Mexican Orphanage / Orestes Vilato](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/7/1993Call Number: CV 202AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Workers from an orphanage in Mexico talk about their work and the children.
An interview with timbales player Orestes Vilato about his history. Examples of his music are intersperced.
![Maria Cristina La Paz](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Tape includes an introductory song, and five poems in Spanish.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #1: How, when, and why they came, Reel 1 of 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/1/1963Call Number: CE 641Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
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.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #1: How, when, and why they came, Reel 2 of 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/1/1963Call Number: CE 642Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
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 #2: The culture they brought, Reel 2 of 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/8/1963Call Number: CE 644Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion of the culture and skills Mexicans brought to California: dance, the question of Native influence, metal and leather craftsmanship, stone cutting and mining techniques, agricultural knowledge, and irrigation.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #3 Culture and the question of language, Reel 1 of 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/15/1963Call Number: CE 645Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
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.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #3 Culture and the question of language, Reel 2 of 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/18/1963Call Number: CE 646Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
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 #4 Drama in the Mexican Community, Reel 2 of 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/22/1963Call Number: CE 648Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Explores the interest in Mexican film in Mexican Americans, and the differences between films from Mexico and the US. Various interviews.
![Californians of Mexican descent; Program #5 Their taste and talent in music, Reel 1 of 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/29/1963Call Number: CE 649Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin B. EdwardsProgram: Californians of Mexican descentCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Explores the musical interests of Californians of Mexican descent including their attachment or lack thereof to Mexican music, Latin music, and music from the US. Various interviews.