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Californians of Mexican descent; Program #1: How, when, and why they came.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Immigration and the Treatment of Illegal/Perceived to be illegal immigrants AND Update on Fast For Life by Pastors for Peace
Date: 4/5/1996Call Number: JG/ 159BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber opens the episode talking about issues around immigration and the harmful treatment of people perceived to be illegal immigrants in the United States. These people face mistreatment and are labeled as illegal and criminals. Judy speaks on the need to find new ways to formally and systematically recognize undocumented people.
After a brief break, Judy returns to give an update on the Fast For Life being held by the Pastors For Peace. After being denied by the United States government the ability to transport 400 computers to Cuba for medical use, the Pastors For Peace decided to go on a hunger strike and have since been joined by people nationwide in protest of the US government’s ruling.
Cuba: Caminos de Revolucion (Cuba: Paths of the Revolution)- Una isla en la corriente
Call Number: V 706Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary talks about the four major waves of Cuban immigration. From the Cuban exiles in 1959, the Cuban Adjustment act in 1965, to the Mariel Boat Lift in 1980, and finally the "balseros" of 1990. Spanish Only.
Anti Prop. 187 march
Chuy Varela takes to the streets of the Fruitvale district in Oakland Ca, during a demonstration against proposition 187. he interviews various local community members and activists who will be effected by the proposition. Proposition 187 proposed state wide citizen screening checks that would prevent undocumented people access to social services such as health care and education.
The Harvesters
Call Number: V 719Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Harvesters documents late 1950's farm labor conditions in California's fields when 14- to 16-hour days paid workers at eighty-five cents to a dollar per hour. The film photographs people working many different crops. It also exposes how the bracero program imported Mexican nationals to work at wages lower than the sub-minimum rates available to American workers. The film was used by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and the United Packinghouse Workers Union as an organizing film.
