Week 6 Annotations Activist Media

BIPOC Social Movements in the US and Colorado: The Chicano Movement

  • Spanish came to Mexico, started colonizing

  • Mestizos: mixed native and Spanish blood

  • 1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, end of US-Mexico War, gives Northern Mexico to US, creates the American SW

    • Did not solve race classification of Mexicans

  • Chicanos: Mexican Americans in the SW

    • Mixture of Native and Spanish, cultural whiteness due to living in the US

  • Mexicans continue to be considered white

  • Hispanic coined in the 70s

  • LULAC advocated to be white, not Mexican

    • Wanted rights [form of activism]

  • Being mixed prevents full assimilation like Poles and Irish

  • Mexicans are subject to segregation due to not being seen as fully white

  • Artistic and cultural

In-class 10/14

El Movimiento Colorado

  • Chicano is a self-identified term

  • Treaty of G-H: Most of SW US joins the US

  • Chicano identity is politically charged

  • Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)

  • 1966: Fired from Neighborhood Youth Corps due to his social activism

    • Organized a rally that helped birth the Crusade for Justice

  • El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia Newspaper: created by Crusade for Justice

  • 1967: C4J held a rally in solidarity w/ La Alianza Federal de Mercedes to defend land rights

    • Interlinked struggles

    • This period had a lot of racially motivated police shootings

  • 1969: West High Walkout: protested a teacher’s discriminatory behavior towards Chicano students

    • Met strong police response

  • 1972: Solidarity w/ the American Indian Movement w/ a national caravan

10/16

Final Project Details

  • AI is available, but there are copyright concerns

  • Talk about formatting today

  • Week 8 will have info on video editing

  • Can reflect on positionality and class concepts in the creator statement

  • External sources: anything not in the onedrive

  • Show credits on screen as the video goes and add captions

    • Name, who they are, oral history interview

  • Email production plan before leaving class

  • Combination of social justice and independent venues