Chavez (Solis), Pauline Rita; Bennett, Lana (friend/friend). 204 South Main Street, Wichita, 2009-10-22T12:30:00

File — Interview-ID: MBY005864

Interview Description

Lana interviews Rita about her life and her hispanic heritage.

Facilitator Subject Log

10:19 By the time she was in High School Rita started to experience discrimination. She dated the one Mexican boy in town (whose parents expected them to get married), but she didn't like him.

15:01 Rita remembers having to sit upstairs at the theater because she was a "kid of color. " She once wasn't served in a restaurant in Newton and the waitress told them she could serve them out back.

20:20 Rita didn't know her father until 1993. He approached her while she was selling t-shirts. He was short like her and introduced himself. They had their first Thanksgiving together in 1994. He died the next year.

37:30 Rita is thankful her grandfather made her speak Spanish.

44:49 All Mexicanos are Indians. Indigenous people. The food is very similar. Indian bread/Sopapillas. Artwork is similar. Rita has problems with Christopher Colombus being in the history books.