The Brown Church
Prominent theologian and theologian framework in the Mexican American community.
What is Abuelita Theology?
A Gregory Nava film following three generations of a Mexican-American immigrant family in East L.A.
What is Mi Familia (1995)?
A famous epic poem associated with the Chicano movement of the 1960s in the United States.
What is "I am Joaquin"?
[A] person of Mexican descent living in the U.S; the term emphasizes pride in the Mexican culture, history, and indigenous roots, as well as an interest in activism.
What is Chicano?
A concept in Brown Theology: “What human beings reject, God chooses as his very own” (Chao 32).
What is the Galilee (Principle)?
A 1986 British historical drama film about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in 18th-century South America.
What is The Mission (1986)?
A wave migration of 750,000 Mexicans to the United States.
What is the Great Migration (1910-1929)?
An imperialist belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A multivalent community and category encompassing ethnic, historical, theological, spiritual, and sociopolitical dimensions that contest racial and social injustice in Latin America and the U.S.
What is the Brown Church?
A documentary examining Roberto Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, the first successful school desegregation court decision in the history of the United States.
What is The Lemon Grove Incident (1985)?
Supreme court case that successfully challenged the residential segregation of Mexican Americans in Orange County and resulted in one of the earliest legal victories against racial housing covenants in the United States.
What is Doss v. Bernal?
An awareness that the groups one belongs to hold a certain status (either powerful or not powerful) in society and whether they decide to take action to change this status, not just for themselves, but for other members of the group as well.
What is consciousness?
A set of values that shaped the activism of Cesar Chavez.
What is Catholic Social Teachings?
A 2023 American documentary on the life of a Chicana labor union activist.
What is the Dolores Huerta Interview (2023)?
A landmark case in the California Supreme Court that upheld the right of Mexicans in California to run for public office on the grounds that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted United States citizenship to all Mexicans residing in California should they want it.
People v. De la Guerra
An identifier for individuals who belong to less privileged, historically subordinate groups.
What is a problematic social identity?
An organization throughout California to build a political power base for the Mexican American community. A part of a movement against discrimination in housing, employment, and education.
What is the Community Service Organization?
A 1989 biographical film depicting the story of an archbishop who organized peaceful protests against the violent military regime, eventually at the cost of his own life.
What is Romero (1989)?
Articles a part of the 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo concerning Citizenship and Property rights?
What is Article VIII Article IX
A three-step process informing one's membership in social categories and groups. Characteristics that inform one's membership can include nationality, language, race, ethnicity, or any other social or physical feature.
What is Social Identity: Social categorization, Social comparison, Psychological work?