Mexican American history 
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SOURCE: Texas Tribune
6/22/2022
Before the Tragedy, Uvalde Was the Site of a Major School Walkout. Will That History Be Lost?
In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators.
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SOURCE: WNYC
6/8/2022
Monica Muñoz Martinez on the Border, Violence, and Uvalde
Michelle Garcia, journalist, essayist, Soros Equality Fellow and Dobie Paisano writer-in-residence, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin, talk about the border security apparatus at Uvalde, and the history of violence and discrimination at the South Texas and Mexican border.
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4/24/2022
The Issue of Visibility in Latino Art
by Ricardo Romo
"The moment is ripe for bringing Latino art to public spaces and public museums. The number of talented Latino artists has multiplied over the past two decades, and the opportunity to make their work visible is now."
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SOURCE: The Metropole
3/23/2022
Planning For The People Y Qué? From Advocacy Planners To Hardcore Punks
by Mike Amezcua
"Punk fliers are planning documents. Not the official kind produced by city planning departments, of course, nor the grassroots plans by neighborhood activists resisting investment capital and gentrification. But these fliers contain a planning schema all the same."
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SOURCE: WTTW
2/26/2022
Historian Mike Amezcua on "Making Mexican Chicago"
Both industry and local realtors were key players in the development of La Villita in southwest Chicago.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
1/22/2022
New Documentary on 1996 De La Hoya vs. Chavez Fight Digs Into Complexity of Mexican Ethnicity Across the Border
Director Eva Longoria Bastón's documentary on the 1996 match between Mexican champion Julio César Chávez and LA-born Oscar De La Hoya examines how the fight revealed tensions between Mexican and Mexican-American communities expressed in citizenship, language and sports allegiance.
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SOURCE: USC School of Cinematic Arts
11/11/2021
View the Pioneering 1971 TV Series "Chicano" Through the USC Moving Image Archive
The Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts has made available recently preserved video of the 1971 television program "Chicano," a pioneering examination of the political, social and cultural concerns of Mexican Americans in California and the U.S. Southwest.
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SOURCE: KUT
11/9/2021
"Civil Rights in Black and Brown" Examines Texas's Forgotten Activists
Todd Moye and Max Krochmal's history of multiracial Texas activism grew out of oral history projects with their students; they realized how much of the grassroots history of civil rights struggle in the state could be lost if it weren't recorded.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
11/7/2021
Pioneering Chicano Movement TV Show Reemerges after 50 Years in Garage
On a recent August day, Frank Cruz, now 82, thought to himself as he had dozens of times before: “Pendejo, you better do something about those films. It might be too late.”
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SOURCE: KSAT
10/13/2021
Historian: At 100th Anniversary, the Origins of LULAC are in San Antonio
Cynthia Orozco, Ph.D, professor of history and humanities at Eastern New Mexico University, will discuss how Order Sons of America led to the creation of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights organization.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
8/27/2021
New History of Chicanos in Ventura County
Historian Frank Barajas discusses his new book on Chicano activism in California's Ventura County with columnist Gustavo Arellano.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
8/4/2021
East LA Bid for Independence Could Achieve a Key Victory
by Eric Avila
"The campaign for special district status would allow East L.A. to inch closer to the right of self-determination afforded to so many other Southland communities."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
The Border Patrol Helped Create the "Browning" of America
The family story of historian Mireya Loza and her father Pedro illustrates an irony of militarized border enforcement: Labor migrants who once contemplated returning to Mexico or Central America were forced to stay in the US and raise American families.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
7/26/2021
Pancho Villa, My Grandmother, and the Revolutionary History of the Border
by Carlos Sanchez
Conflicting family and neighborhood stories about the life of Pancho Villa – bandit or revolutionary? – showed the author how little of the complexity of the Mexican Revolution and the experiences of ethnic Mexican people made it into his school books in El Paso. Will new Texas laws push this knowledge back into the shadows?
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SOURCE: Vox
5/17/2021
The Violent Origin Story of Dodger Stadium
by Ranjani Chakraborty and Melissa Hirsch
Through interviews with several former residents of the area, Vox explores the story of their neighborhoods razed to make room for Dodger Stadium. It’s one that’s often missing from the history of Los Angeles and has created a double-edged relationship for some Dodger fans. Features commentary by historian Priscilla Leiva.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
5/7/2021
How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border
by Sierra Pettengill and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Sierra Pettengill's new short documentary "The Rifleman" connects racist violence at the US-Mexico border and the politics of influential NRA leader Harlon Carter, who for decades concealed the fact that he was convicted at age 17 of murder for shooting a Mexican youth in Laredo. She discusses that story with historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/27/2021
Lives Derailed: Notes from Migration Encounters
by Anita Isaacs and Anne Preston
"The contributions of immigrants, and the human toll of anti-immigrant policies should take center stage as we renew our national conversation on immigration."
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SOURCE: Public Books
11/20/2020
The Enduring Disposability Of Latinx Workers
by Natalia Molina
"For over a century, we have excused systemic inequalities, justifying them by pointing to Mexicans’ difference from 'us'."
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SOURCE: KGW8
10/2/2020
Meet the Mexican Workers Who Helped Feed America During World War II
Portland State history professor Marc Rodriguez discusses how the program addressed the United States' agricultural labor needs and started the settlement of Latino communities in new parts of the nation.
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SOURCE: San Antonio Express-News
9/22/2020
Alonso Perales May be the Most Important Mexican American Civil Rights Figure that No One Knows
Alonso Perales may be one of the most influential Mexican Americans of the 20th century who’s still relatively unknown; historian Cynthia Orozco hopes to correct that.
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