LATINO AMERICANS:
PREJUDICE AND PRIDE (1965 – 1980)*
(2014, 52 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
Wednesday, February 17, 7pm
Teatro SEA at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street (between Rivington and Delancey), New York City
Free and Open to the Public. RSVP here
In the 1960s and 1970s a generation of Mexican Americans, frustrated by persistent discrimination and poverty, find a new way forward, through social action and the building of a new “Chicano” identity. The movement is ignited when farm workers in the fields of California, led by César Chavez and Dolores Huerta, march on Sacramento for equal pay and humane working conditions. Through plays, poetry and film, Luis Valdez and activist Corky Gonzalez create a new appreciation of the long history of Mexicans in the South West and the Mestizo roots of Mexican Americans.
In Los Angeles, Sal Castro, a schoolteacher, leads the largest high school student walkout in American history, demanding that Chicano students be given the same educational opportunities as Anglos. In Texas, activists such as José Ángel Gutiérrez, create a new political party and change the rules of the electoral game. By the end of the 1970s Chicanos activism and identity have transformed what it means to be an American. Chicano and Latino studies are incorporated into school curriculum; Latinos are included in the political process.
Screening followed by a discussion with producer/director John Valadez and artist Miguel Trellez..
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*Prejudice and Pride (1965-1980) is episode five from LATINO AMERICANS,
a landmark three-part, six-hour documentary series that aired nationally on PBS in the fall of 2013.
A production of WETA Washington, DC; Bosch and Co., Inc.; and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB);
in association with Independent Television Service (ITVS).
Cinema Tropical’s screening series are made possible with the support of:
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Presented as part of “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History,” which has been made possible through a grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.
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