We take you into College Classrooms across the country. In our original series lectures in history with discussions from college and University Classrooms around the country. Next, a look at latina history and the civil rights movement. We start with university of california san diego professor luis alvarez. Who teaches a class about the 1943 zoot suit riots in los angeles. He described Race Relations during the world war ii era. And how young people who wore zoot suits came to symbolize a challenge to conventional gender and racial identities. This is about an hour and a half. All right. So let me just remind you where we are in our ongoing narrative of Mexican American history. Last week we talked a lot about 1910 and the mexican revolution and the dramatic changes that this made for the mexicanorigin folk on the northern side of the border. This week we are going to begin discussion of our third flash point in the course, which is 1943, really as a standin for world war ii. If you r
Alvarez who teaches a class about the 1943 zoot suit riots in los angeles. He describes Race Relations during the world war ii era, and how young people who wore zoot suits came to symbolize a challengey to conventional gendr and racial identities. This is about an hour and a half. All right. So let me just remind you where we are and theve ongoing narrate of mexicanAmerican History. Last week we talked a lot about 1910 l and the mexican revoluti and the dramatic changes that this made for the mexican origin folk on the northern side of te border. This week we areoi going to beg discussion of 1943 as a standin for world war ii. If you recall, at the end of last week, we had been discussing those millionplus mexican migrants who moved north of the border into the United States, many of them, hundreds of thousands of them and their children t settling in the southwestern United States, s california, texas and elsewhere. We discussed their experiences, theirxp trials and tribulations what
And elsewhere. As we discuss their experiences, their trials and tribulations. What they live through the 1920s and the great depression. I mention a couple of times and we will be spending most of today discussing what happened to their children. Million plus migrants who brought children with them in the 20s and 30s, or had children who were born as american citizens and came of age in the 1930s and early 1940s and would become known as the Mexican American generation. Who would become young adults living in the United States as the nation went to war during world war ii. Selenium, japanese and fascism around the world. This is what we will be talking about this week. I want to remind you a couple of the Big Questions we have been tracing over the last several weeks, not the least of which is is considered Mexican American or american more generally. Was is awarded firstclass citizenship in American Society . This changes with these million plus migrants and their offspring. Is a tra
Symbol i symbolize a challenge to racial identities. This is about an hour and a half. All right. So let me just remind you where we are in our ongoing narrative of Mexican American history. Last week we talked a lot about 1910 and the mexican revolution and the dramatic changes that this made for the mexicanorigin folk on the northern side of the border. This week we are going to begin discussion of our third flash point in the course, which is 1943, really as a standin for world war ii. If you recall, at the end of last week we had been discussing those millionplus mexican migrants who moved north of the border into the United States, many of them hundreds of thousands of them and their children settling in the south western United States, california, texas and elsewhere. We discussed their experiences, their trials and tribulations, what they lived there in the 1920s and the 1930s and the great depression. I mentioned a couple of times, and well be spending most of today discussing
Conventional gender and racial identities. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. Let me rewind you let me remind you where we are. Abouteek we talked a lot 1910 and the mexican revolutions and the dramatic changes this made for the mexican folk on the northern side of the border. This week we are going to begin discussion of our third flashpoint in the course, which is 1933, really as a stand in for world war ii. At that ye and d week we had been discussing those million plus mexican migrants who moved north of the border into the United States. Ofy of them, hundreds thousands of them and their children settling in the southwestern United States. California, texas and elsewhere. We discussed their experiences, their trials and tribulations, what they lived through in the 1920s and 1930s and the great depression. I will be spending most of today discussing what happened to their children, those million plus migrants who brought children with them in the 20s and 30s or had children