CH ST 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ernesto Galarza, Tenayuca, United Farm Workers
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Demanding minimum wage for all workers. Today"s class the chicana/o movement a movement of movements. plural, not singular. Complex, messy, not well-known: not just chicano movement. Blackwell: chicana power book: we focus mostly on male voices. Textbooks which don"t refer to slaves as slaves but as workers. Who can say when my story begins, esperanza quintero, miner"s wife, salt of the earth (short clip, 3 minutes). Height of the mccarthy period was dangerous for socialists, anarchists, people who wanted social change and were accused of being communists gasp. Ater this ilm was made, it wasn"t really popularized unil the 80s. Character esperanza was similar to paula in walkout. Let"s briely review the class so far colonizaion, conquest, genocide. Relied on muliple methods and strategies, but could not obtain their freedom. Some people would commit suicide just to get out of it.
