Mujeres
Co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) alongside César Chávez, which fought for labor and civil rights for farm workers. Coined the Term “Si Se Puede”
Dolores Huerta
Is a rhetorical practice within Indigenous activism that reclaims critical pieces of our histories and identities that are often hidden or erased from dominant discourse within and about Indigenous activism (WHITEBEAR)
Counter-Colonial Storytelling.
A war between the US and Mexico, which led to the annexation of land from Mexico. It paved the way for so many other important events, from the expansion and dispossession of indigenous people, the California Gold Rush, and the American Civil War. It added the states of California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming to the United States.
U.S.-Mexico War
The author of All They Will Call You, which is a book that describes the erased/neglected story of a plane crash that took the lives of migrant workers who were being deported to Mexico
Tim Hernandez
Bare Life, the constant state of being in survival mode. Think Carlos from A Better Life
Precarity
Was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory. Her most syndicated work Borderlands: The New Mestiza is the backbone for the recent chicano studies literature
Gloria Anzaldua
Is a powerful tool used by settlers to put forth what they imagine Indigenous people to be, which is reinforced by settler norms that create distinctions and devise that signify relational elements between settlers and Indigenous people. The basis of the ___ ____ is rooted in domination and the erasure of the experiences and identities of Indigenous people” (whitebear)
Settler Gaze
This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. Mexico also relinquished all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States.
Two individuals, the pilot and his wife, who were on the plane crash described in All They Will Call You.
Frank and Bobbie Atkinson
During the Great Depression, the US deported a large number of immigrants (~2 million), with a majority of them being citizens. Mexican and Mexican-Americans were blamed for the depression.
Mexican Repatriation/Mass Deportations (1930s)
An immigrant from Guatemala, she was the first Latina vice-president of a major union, the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA), which in its heyday was the seventh-largest CIO affiliate.
Luisa Moreno
The goal of ___ ____ is the removal and erasure of Indigenous peoples in order to take the land for use by settlers in perpetuity.
Setter Colonialism
A Program during WW2 that was created to satisfy the labor shortage that occurred because of the war. Exploitation at its finest (unfortunately).
Bracero Program
The Country song that details the crash that occurred in Los Gatos Canyon. Detailed in the very end of the book.
Deportee song (Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman, Pete Seeger)
What is: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Genocide
A political and social activist in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. She was active in the Mexican Defense Committee, El Congreso (the National Congress of Spanish Speaking Peoples), and the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, and—as we have seen—led efforts to end the violent attacks on ethnic Mexicans in Los Angeles during the Zoot Suit Riots
Josefina Fierro de Bright
A belief that the US has every right to colonize or implement imperialist values in its laws to take land that isn't theirs. Think the photo of the angel guiding the settlers to the west.
Manifest Destiny
Refers to the case of the 1942 death of José Gallardo Díaz, a young Mexican-American man found dying near a reservoir in Commerce, California, on August 2, 1942. The case became a flashpoint for racial tension and injustice in Los Angeles.
Sleepy Lagoon Case
A victim from the plane crash who was set to marry his girlfriend when he returned from his last trip. He said to have left in order to give his mother money and bring a mariachi to his girlfriend.
Luis Miranda Cuevas
Hidden within historical accounts, _____ (film) explores the Bracero Program, importing millions of Mexican men as contract farm workers from 1942-1964, undermining unionization. It examines the program's role in Mexican immigration to the US.
Harvest of Loneliness (film)
Organized twelve thousand pecan shellers in a strike, which boosted wages to five cents per pound. Responsible for the first major successful action in the struggle for economic and social justice for Mexican Americans, she feared neither jail nor public censure.
Emma Tenayuca
The idea that Latino Americans and Latino immigrants are a threat to American democracy and amplifies the stereotypes that are placed on immigrants.
Latino Threat Narrative
“The ____ v. _____ case was a 1947 California lawsuit that successfully challenged the segregation of Mexican-American and Hispanic students in public schools, paving the way for later desegregation efforts like Brown v. Board of Education.”
Mendez v. Westminster
A young man who went up north on orders from his father, but was able to keep going through his love of baseball.
Jose Sanchez Valdivia
(formerly the Citizen's Committee for the Defense of Mexican American Youth) formed in 1942 in reaction to the indictment of 22 young men for murder. 12 defendants were convicted of first degree murder. raised funds to appeal the case and roused public opinion through education and publicity programs.
Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee (SLDC)