Please answer the following question in two paragraphs or more below:
1) Define the social, political, and educational struggles as defined by the Chicana/o Movement and the lasting impact of this movement to today.
Please answer the following question in one paragraph or more below.
2) Define the social, political, and educational struggles raised by the Young Lords. Who were they influenced by?
What is the impact of the movement today?
Videos:
Video/Media: Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Movement, Episode 3, Taking Back the School (56 minutes)
Taking Back the Schools.
Kanopy Description: It covers the Los Angeles high school blowouts of 1968 thoroughly and with passion. Part 3 is also likely to be the most interesting to students because they can witness young people their own age forcefully agitating for change. It is also striking because the catalysts for the walkouts–high drop-out rate, crumbling schools, lack of Mexican American teachers–still resonate today. This segment is visually interesting as well because the filmmakers made a conscious effort to interview actual participants (which they do in all the segments). Here they actually go back and forth between a photo or video of a participant from the 1960s to that same person being interviewed today, and it is insightful to see how that individual changed in the intervening thirty years. For example, at one point the video discusses how the students were trying to garner outside support for their cause in order to legitimate it in the eyes of the school board. Robert Kennedy agrees to meet with student leaders and offer his support (he was running for president at the time and was in California to meet with Cesar Chavez), and we see a picture of Kennedy surrounded by student leaders. The camera then focuses on a young Harry Gamboa–one of the walk-out leaders–standing next to Kennedy and the video then fades away to a current-day interview with him.
Video/Media: Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Movement, Episode 4, Fighting For Political Power (56 minutes)
Fighting for Political Power
Kanopy Description: Discusses the creation of La Raza Unida Party as a third-party force for political power and the importance of political rights. It culminates in the 1972 election and the Raza Unida convention, and the fragmentation of the party at the height of its membership and recognition.
Running Time
56 mins
Year
1995
Lecture-5
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