Following a shocking New York Times investigation describing a history of sexual assault and abuse from Cesar Chavez, the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers, the LMC speaks with Nolan Cabrera to discuss the fallout from the story and what it means to the future of Chicano Studies.
Nolan Cabrera is a professor of Educational Policy Studies and Practice @ the University of Arizona in Tucson and the author of, “Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts.” Co-written with Robert Chang from the University of California, Irvine.
What can the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 teach us about anti-immigrant, anti-Latino sentiment in the US today? Before today’s concept of “fake news”, how racist and inflammatory was yellow journalism during this dark period in California history? The LMC finds out on this episode when we speak with Gerardo Licon on what the riots can teach us about today. Gerardo Licon is an assistant professor in the Program of Latin American Studies @ the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire.
On this episode, Tomas Summers-Sandoval talks about the little known history of Latinos in the Vietnam War and how the number of Latinos in that war was a lot larger than people realize. He also talks about the forgotten legacy of the Chicano Moratorium of 1970, one of the largest minority-led, anti-war movements during this period. Summers-Sandoval is an associate professor of History &Chicanx/Latinx studies @ Pomona College.
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