People are going to accuse me of doing a dual narrative. I just love the story. Anyway that became the story on british history. I would argue that was the last dual narrative that i did in my view. I dont look at this as a dual narrative. So yeah. I dont have so much of a question but first of all i want to thank you for all the great hooks you are providing. I have been telling friends that if you read the book you are only reading half the story. What i mean by that, if you look at the notes towards the back of the book he provides so much more information that you are not getting in reading the book. For example he puts in his footnotes where you can go to a web site and see film of people boarding the boat that was taken on the boat and found this the boat was leaving the harbor. He was just so nice that you offer all this Additional Information for the readers. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much for your comment because i have learned by the way overtime that peo
[inaudible conversations] and good evening. They give poor joining for our it event for the oregon trail. We got so excited when we read the book at the very beginning we decided to do something fun with the publisher. Here is what we did. We thought we would take the advanced copy to send it on its own Little Journey to independent bookstores. In kansas city we got together then retook get on its own little trail which went to the Indian Mission and the Pioneer Family section and in the old west port to take it there and the scalp statute and we went to the pioneer area there is two pictures of that then we went to the Stock Exchange building behind the cows and we started the of books to put the pictures as it went on his journey. We had customers right notes in the book and put the pictures in their. So that is the book as we shipped it out across the country. We had so much fun we got some great feedback from other booksellers along the way some was a fun project. So now please tel
Mla, thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. Otto santa ana, author of juan in a hundred come it takes look at the latinos on the news. This is about half an hour. In now on booktv, we want to introduce you to ucla professor, otto santa ana. Professor santa ana, what do you teach at ucla . Guest ironman chicano and chacon of studies. Host what courses are you teaching . Guest i teach courses in language and media, linkage in the classroom. I teach a course on political humor. I teach courses on language all aspects of language that are socially relative. Host your book that we want to talk about on booktv is juan in a hundred the representation of latinos on network news. Here is the cover of the book. Before we get started, i want to ask you what does the word latino name . Guest latino. The team now with all the people who are of latin american origin who are noncitizens of the United States. Host and you are professor of chicano chicano studies. Guest chacon that in chicano means
Amendment argument that the possession of which was the application of curfew, mass. For mobile and subsequently incarceration directed only as people of japanese ancestry and beaten by racial myself, i might add applied to people that were half of japanese ancestry from a quarter down to an eight i believe ancestor was enough to get you into one of these camps. They felt that was profoundly unconstitutional and gordon sincerely believed the Supreme Court justices are going to agree with him about that. They absolutely did not, but because of the relationship between the conviction in the time he was going to have to serve, he asked at one juncture, i think of is that the seattle local court level that his sentences for opposition to curfew and opposition to removal be combined and lengthened out a little bit so he would be able to serve in a Penal Institution that allowed him to be outside. So he got this concurrent sentence and bus when it came out to the Supreme Court and i believe
With the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of the progressive error and things like that. I think this is a good start point. To think about who is claiming american status. And what does that mean . So were going to build from some of the ideas. We talked about with manifest destiny. From the discussion of Political Violence and build into these are other things. Couple key concepts that we need to deal with first of all a settler colonialism. Have you heard that phrase before . I see a couple yeses and a couple knows some heads kind of bobbing every which way, okay when we talk about settler colonialism, let me give you kind of a gen