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Californians of Mexican descent; Program #3 Culture and the question of language.
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.
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