I hope to have some fun today. We talked about the actual wars and fighting and the times when the cold war got a little hot. Today we are talking about the cultural cold war perhaps or the war over culture and the fight for influence. So in that context jazz really comes to the forefront. We are thinking about why that guy is running around in the congo and why they are traveling to far flown places of the world like pakistan and south asia. What are they doing there . Well talk about big ideas. I want to talk about this. Who is that . Armstrong. Yes. You were probably hesitant to say. You know who it is. There he is. You cant miss that smile and that gaze. You know, he gives people that gaze when he is talking. Probably americas most prominent jazz musician during this whole period. Certainly when it starts and also before that. He already toured europe commercially and he was prominent figure but just American Culture generally. And so before we get into unpacking this image the rea
About the article. Good . Okay. So im going to tell you guys a little bit about how i started being interested in bracero history. I always tell you guys i was a student like you guys in a class, mexicanAmerican History, and my advisor, my thenmentor well, he was first my teacher. Matt garcia said to me and the rest of the class, find your oldest Family Member and collect an oral history. I thought an oral history was a basic interview and i thought, okay, thats fine. It is a little challenging when you come from immigrant families in which your grandparents are somewhere else, so i looked for my oldest Family Member, and my oldest Family Member was not really that old, right . He was my uncle who had come in as a bracero. I grew up with my uncle. I grew up seeing my uncle every single day and he would talk every once in a while about his work in california, in texas. He would tell me stories and tell my whole family stories about what it was like to work picking cotton in texas, what
You guys today about what i research. So you guys had my piece on the alien braceros. I want us to think about the class today in two parts, one in which were going to cover bracero history. I know we covered bracero history in sort of broad sketches, but this time we will talk about it a little bit more in depth. My gift to you, i cant let you walk out of a class with me without you guys knowing bracero history really well. Second thing were going to do is were actually going to talk about the article. Good . Okay. So im going to tell you guys a little bit about how i started being interested in bracero history. I always tell you guys i was a student like you guys in a class, mexicanAmerican History, and my advisor, my thenmentor well, he was first my teacher. Matt garcia said to me and the rest of the class, find your oldest Family Member and collect an oral history. I thought an oral history was a basic interview and i thought, okay, thats fine. It is a little challenging when you c
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
This is were almost towards the end of the semester and because were almost towards the end of the semester i decided to talk to you guys today about what i researched. You guys had my piece on braceros. To start with i want us to think about the class today in two parts. One in which were going to bracero history and i know we covered brassero history in sort of broad sketches. This time well talk about brassero history a little more indepth. Cero history a little indepth. Second thing were going to do is tuck about the article. Good . Okay. Im going to tell you guys a little bit about how i started being interested in bracero history. I always tell you guys i was a student like you guys in a class. Mexican American History. My adviser, my thenmentor was first my teacher. Matt garcia said to me, and to the rest of the class, find your oldest Family Member and collect an oral history. I thought an oral history was a basic interview i thought okay, thats fine. Its a little challenging w