Racism

Interview Description Tania Rodriguez, 32, talks to her fiancee Fabricio Aguilar, 29, about her involvement in AIDS care and education, the arts magazine the couple has founded in El Salvador, and motherhood. Facilitator Subject Log 0:45 TR talks about her job as an AIDS health educator, in which capacity she provides cultural and linguistic competency training. 6:30 TR on her responsibilities on the board of an AIDS care organization....

Interview Description Deborah Martinez (55) interviews her friend, Alfie Salazar (74) about her life, especially in relation to her identity as Hispanic. Facilitator Subject Log 02:19 Alfie talks about her patents, and her childhood on her father's farm in Monte Vista, CO where she was born. 06:14 Alfie tells stories of the magpie bird tattle telling (in Spanish!) on Alfie and her siblings and cousins when they would get into trouble....

Interview Description Bamby Salcedo, 40, y su amiga Brenda Del Río González, hablan de su trabajo comunitario y activismo, de la discriminación que sufren las mujeres transgénero y de los momentos y cosas que les sirven de inspiración. [Bamby Salcedo, 40, and her friend and coworker Brenda Del Río González, 42, talk about their community work and activism, about the discrimination faced by transgender women, and the moments and things that inspire them.] ...

Interview Description Rosalinda Sanchez (43) and Carmen Abeyta (63) talk about their experiences as Latinas and Chicanas, their families and their experience with "curanderos ", or healers. Facilitator Subject Log 00:48 Rosalinda was born in Washington State. Her parents were migrant farmers with a cucumber farm. Carmen was born in Montrose, CO and her parents were also farmers. 09:30 Rosalinda talks about dealing with racism and discrimination in her...

Interview Description Paul Francis Sanchez Yates, 42, talks to his friends Johnathan Eisen about his upbringing, the racial attitudes of the town where he grew up, his mother's alcoholism, his education, and filmmaking. Facilitator Subject Log 1:38 PS talks about his childhood in Darien, CT. He stood out and was discriminated against for not being White. His parents split when he was two years old. 4:30 PS shares the faint memories he has of his...

Interview Description Thelma Perales Shelton (59) talks with daughter Vanessa Reyes Vara (38) & granddaughter Valencia Vara (12) about her childhood. Facilitator Subject Log 01:10 Thelma talks about her family's ancestral roots in Guanajuato, Mexico. She has also traced her family's history back to Spain and the Moorish Empire. 09:00 Thelma talks about her mother working for a cigar company when she was 9-years-old. There weren't child labor laws...

Interview Description Emma Torres y su compañera de trabajo Maria Chavoya platican sobre la vida laboral de Emma, su papel dentro del sindicato de trabajadores campesinos (UFW, por sus siglas en Ingles), el declive del sindicato y sus logros y aspiraciones educativas. [Emma Torres and her coworker Maria Chavoya talk about Emma's work life, her role in the United Farm Workers union (UFW), the union's decline, and Emma's educational achievements and aspirations.] ...

Interview Description Facilitator, Jorge Rios (24) interviews Emma Torres (52) about her experiences in farmworking, her involvement in the United Farm Workers and the Cesar Chavez movement, and her education and work today. Facilitator Subject Log 00:53 Emma talks about Campesinos Sin Fronteras, of which she is the founder and Executive Director. CSF advocates for farmworkers. 02:23 Emma talks about her childhood as a migrant farmworker, and her...

Interview Description Amelia Alice Vara (87) talks with daughter Mary Hernandez (65) and granddaughter Dawn Leal (37) about her service to her community. Facilitator Subject Log 02:30 Amelia talks about her mother and her father. Her father was a Spanish translator. 04:50 Amelia talks about her experiences in school. She remembers being segregated at school from her sister because they had differing skin tones. 16:10 Amelia talks about...

Interview Description José Villarreal (62) talks with his wife Sylvia Sullivan Villarreal (59) about his childhood in Orange Grove, TX, migrating around Texas with his family as a child and meeting his wife Sylvia when he was in graduate school. Facilitator Subject Log 1:38 migrant farmers; the most his father made every year was $2000 for a family of nine kids 5:51 memories of his father being nervous to stop at gas stations; stopping at the roadside...