- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 3.25 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Disability policy activist in California and Arizona. Connected with the Arizona Statewide Independent Living Council (S...
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- Topic:
- Environmental IllnessSocial Movements
- Length:
- 1 hr
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Experiences Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS), and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Before her Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) became debilitating, Petit was a multilingual school teacher and Girl Guides of Canada volunteer.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Doctoral candidate at an R1 research university and lead editor for a journal. Self-advocate relating to MCS, leading to institutional changes and awareness of MCS. Als...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Communist Party and the Independent Progressive Party. Organizer for the Office and Professional Employees Union and the Utility Workers Organizing Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Communist Party. Served with the Republican forces of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyLiteratureLabor Movement
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Business representative of the Office and Professional Employees International Union.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementLiteratureCommunist Party
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Leftist novelist and journalist.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Daughter of leftist novelist and journalist Meridel Le Sueur.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Communist Party.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyLiteratureLabor Movement
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyLiteratureLabor Movement
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Chair of the Southern California chapter of the Communist Party.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryCentral Americans in Southern CaliforniaCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 9 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews includes activists who were involved in founding and sustaining organizations in the Central American community in the 1980s. It examines the participants' activism and political persecution in Central America, their immigration to the U.S., and the ways they organized t...
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from El Salvador who worked with El Rescate and Clínica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero. Participated in founding of the Department of Central American Studies at California State University, Northridge.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Communist Party.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 3.5 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Developed MCS after workplace exposure. Patient advocate.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 2.25 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Lyme Disease. Storyteller. Gender non-conforming. Narrates experiences of chemical exposure and illness from the perspective of genetics.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 2.25 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Experiences Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Associate professor, Department of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis. Environmental activism who...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.75 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Makeup artist, stylist, and activist in Canada. Creative director and board member at Fashion Takes Action. Cabinet memb...
- Topic:
- Environmental IllnessSocial Movements
- Length:
- 1.5 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Long term experience with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS).
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.25 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Professor of Legal Studies, University of Houston-Clear Lake in Texas. Lives with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). Childhood lung cancer survivor. Mold ex...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.5 hrs
- Language:
- Spanish
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with chemical sensitivities and eczema. Born in Guatemala. Worked as a nurse before migrating to Los Angeles, California. Worked in various factory jobs, assisted...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series.Lives Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Medically retired from career with City of Los Angeles due to chemical exposure after working in chemical testing for many y...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- .75 hrs
- Language:
- Spanish
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Member of the Women’s Collective in San Francisco, an organization that advocates for the rights of domestic workers such as caretakers and house cleaners.
- Topic:
- Environmental IllnessSocial Movements
- Length:
- 1 hr
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). Run support group for people with MCAS in East Bay, California.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.75 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Canadian artist, whose artist books and sculptural works explore feminist and environmental themes as well as the experi...
- Topic:
- Environmental IllnessSocial Movements
- Length:
- 2.25 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). College-educated, Al-Anon peer counselor with an array of pink collar and blue collar work experience. Filed lawsuit con...
- Topic:
- Environmental IllnessSocial Movements
- Length:
- 2.25 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with chemical injury and environmental illness. Puerto Rican-Jewish poet, essayist, and podcaster. Disability and accessible housing activist. Collaborating on t...
- Topic:
- Environmental IllnessSocial Movements
- Length:
- 1.75 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Former president and board member of the Environmental Health Network of California.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.5 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Activist blogger who writes about nickel allergy. Her blog, Nickely Challenged, features her writing on her journey of n...
- Topic:
- Environmental IllnessSocial Movements
- Length:
- 1.5 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Medical doctor specializing in internal medicine and environmental health. Chemical sensitivity and disability advocate and ac...
- Topic:
- Environmental IllnessSocial Movements
- Length:
- 1 hr
- Language:
- Spanish
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Experiences chemical sensitivities. Domestic worker and member of the Women’s Collective and United and Active Women (MUA), two activist organizations in San Francisco.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- .75 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Lyme Disease and experiences chemical sensitivities. UCLA student. Advocate for people living with for Lyme Disease and chronic illnesses, and activist for ...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.25 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Chief of the Office of Viral Hepatitis Prevention for the California Department of Public Health.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 2 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Gender queer artist and activist. Having experienced houselessness, they advocate for developing accessible social housing.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Founder of Base Coat Nail Salon, a non-toxic nail salon. Partners with California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 15 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Chicano Moratorium Committee, and involved in the creation of the Chicano Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Length:
- 24 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Founder of Hijas de Cuauhtemoc, Encuentro Feminil, and La Feminista, publications focused on issues relating to feminism and the Chicana community. Created a Chicana studies curriculum at California State University, Northridge, served as assistant professor in their Chicano studies department.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Length:
- 10 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Co-founder of the Brown Berets who protested against unfair conditions in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Founder of the cultural nationalist group, La Junta.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Member in the Chicano Blowouts. Co-editor, writer, and photographer for La Raza, a Chicano-movement newspaper.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Length:
- 10 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Founding member of the Brown Berets, and key organizer of the Chicano Blowouts. Became the second Latina member of the LA School Board.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 10 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of Católicos por La Raza protests. Involved in the sanctuary movement in Los Angeles, the resettlement of refugees from Central America.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 15 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Journalist, photographer, and editor for La Raza, a Chicano-movement newspaper. Ran for office as a candidate of the first and only Mexican American political party, La Raza Unida Party.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Length:
- 11.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Chicano movement activist, member of the Los Angeles County Mexican American Education Committee. Founding member of the Latin American Civic Association. Involved in the creation of a Chicano studies department at California State University, Northridge.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Length:
- 13 hrs.
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Founding member of the Brown Berets. Key organizer of the Chicano Moratorium Committee and the Chicano Blowouts.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Length:
- 9.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- University of Southern California professor of journalism and communication. University of Southern California professor of american studies and ethnicity. First executive director of the California Chicano News Media Association and senior vice president of the Freedom Forum and the Newseum.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Length:
- 9 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Minister of finance and correspondence of the Brown Beret organization's founding chapter. Administrator of El Barrio Free Clinic and member of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 10 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Los Angeles lawyer and administrative law judge with the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Important in the fight for a living wage ordinance and for a new high school.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 16 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
- Biographical Note:
- Founding member of the Brown Berets, and key organizer of the Chicano Blowouts. Member of La Vida Nueva and the movement to establish the Chicano Studies program at East Los Angeles College.