The Mexican American Studies Toolkit
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 282
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The Mexican American Studies Toolkit is designed to provide educators with the most up-to-date approach to contemporary issues in Social Studies, History, Rhetorical Analysis, Ethnic Studies, and more. This series combines the research of leading scholars on topics that have permanently shaped the Mexican American identify in academia, alongside the art and activism that brought that work to the attention of the nation.
The Mexican American Studies Toolkit:
- addresses issues that are prevalent today
- provides the tools for teachers to engage students through social media and multimedia as well as the classic media of books.
- designed by scholars, teachers, writers, and activists who not only understand the research and its influence on modern issues, but who also know how to thrill and educate students in the classroom.
- marks the next era in multicultural, multi-media education.
Preface
About the Author
Introduction
UNIT I
Indigenous Roots
Where Are the Aztec Books?
Twenty Books
How Do You Build a Skyscraper?
Aztec 2.0
Only Art Can Save Us
Who Gets to Tell Their Story?
Dance of Generations
Lost History
The Other Slavery
Danza Azteca
Danza Azteca Taxcayolotl
The Legacy of Dia de Los Muertos/Day of the Dead
Honoring Dia de Los Muertos at Casa Ramirez
Folk Art Gallery
The 5 Stages of Grief You’ll Go Through When
Realizing There’s Now “Dia de los Muertos Beer”
More Than Hispanic Heritage Month
March 31: The End of a Legacy and the Beginning of One
March 31: The Legacy of Selena
Dolores: The Tip of the Pyramid
The Rock Star and the Activist
Primary Source: Interviewing Dolores Huerta
Asking Dolores: Teatro Campesino and the Ethnic
Studies Ban
More History
About Houston Latino Film Festival
UNIT II
Identity
Introduction
Librotraficante Dictionary
Which Word Is Right: “Hispanic” or “Latino”?
All Educated With No Place to Go
by Tony Diaz
Take the Cultural Quiz
Data for the Real World
Mexican American Studies Day, May 1, 2015
by Tony Diaz
Legally Defining Terms
The Legally White, Socially Brown Latino
by Lupe E. Salinas
Mexicans Ain’t White: The Gus Garcia Story
by Tony Diaz
UNIT III
Lost Histories
Six Flags
Tip of The Pyramid
U.S. History Ignoring Spanish, Mexican Contributions
by José Antonio López
Mexican American World War II Veterans
The Stories of Mexican American World War II Veterans
Identity: From Mexican American to Chicana/o, 1930–1980
by Dr. Jesse Esparza, Texas Southern University
UNIT IV
The Struggle for Ethnic Studies
A History of Chicana and Chicano Studies: From the Third
World Liberation Front to the Ban on Ethnic Studies
by Dr. Jesus Jesse Esparza
The Librotraficante: Defying Arizona’s Anti-Ethnic
Studies Law
Librotraficante Founders
I Didn’t Ask to Be a Book Smuggler The Librotraficante
Movement and the Battle for Ethnic Studies
By Claire M. Massey MA
Voices: The American Dream Through Our Books
by Tony Diaz
The Librotraficante Caravan: A Multimedia Showcase
UNIT V
Immigration
The Future of Immigration Is the Past
Ciudad de la Muerte
by Cecilia Balli
Danos un Corazón Fuerte Para Luchar (Give Us A Strong
Heart to Continue the Struggle) Living Undocumented
by Rhonda Ríos Kravitz, Marisela Hernandez,
Ernest Gutiérrez, Violeta Urizar, and Osca Sarabia
UNIT VI
Tell Your Story
The Anthropoet: A Manifesto
by Tim Hernandez
Introduction to Houston Huelga Schools
The Denver Harbor Huelga School—
An Interview with Dr. Flores .
A Response to Gil Scott-Heron’s
“A Poem for Jose Campos Torres”
What We Didn’t Know—I (Judge Ben Connally and I)
When She Walked In .
by Lupe Mendez
UNIT VII
Only Art Can Save Us: Maps to the Heart
and Soul of Mexican Americans
Top 10 Chicano Films for M.A.S.
by Tony Diaz
Chicana Films Need to Be Included in Mexican American
Studies Curricula. Award-Winning Filmmaker
Linda Garcia Merchant Tells Us Why!
by Linda Garcia Merchant
2012 MAS Banned Curriculum Book List
Complied by Elaine Romeo
The Original MAS TUSD Teachers
Every Week Is Banned Books Week for Chicanos
by Tony Diaz
Tony Diaz Diaz, El Librotraficante, is a political analyst on "What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston. He also hosts the weekly bilingual radio program Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say which covers Latino Literature, Art, and Politics on KPFT 90.1 FM Houston. His essays have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Texas Observer, Fox News Latino, CNN.com, the Los Angeles Times, and Huffington Post Latino Voices, among other publications.
Diaz founded Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writer Having Their Say (NP) in April of 1998 in Houston, Texas. NP began as a monthly reading series featuring nationally renowned authors and new writers from the community. The group grew to include the weekly radio program, Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, which has aired on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston, Texas since 2001; the Latino Book and Family Festival-the largest book fair in Houston and one of the largest in Texas; the NP MFA Initiative which cultivated more Latinos with Master’s Degrees in Writing than the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, and many other programs. The Nuestra Palabra Collection is housed at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, part of the Special Collections Division of the Houston Public Library System. Nuestra Palabra radio show broadcasts are archived at the University of Houston Libraries and Special Collections.
Nuestra Palabra formed the basis for the Librotraficantes. Diaz made national and international news when he led the Librotraficantes in defying Arizona's ban of Mexican American Studies. He along with 4 veteranos of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say: Liana Lopez aka Librotraficante Lilo, Bryan Parras aka Librotraficante HighTechAztec, Laura Acosta aka Librotraficante La Laura, and Lupe Mendez aka Librotraficante Lips Mendez organized the 2012 Librotraficante Caravan to smuggle books banned books in Tucson back into Arizona. The Librotraficantes began underground libraries across the southwest and joined a national movement to put into check Arizona’s ban of Ethnic Studies. The group has gone on to continue defending Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom, and promoting Ethnic Studies.
Diaz currently resides in Houston where he is the Director of Intercultural Initiatives at Lone Star College-North Harris and a professor of Mexican American Studies. He is the author of the novel The Aztec Love God, the editor of the anthology Latino Heretics, and is included in Hecho En Tejas: The Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature as well as other publications.
The Mexican American Studies Toolkit is designed to provide educators with the most up-to-date approach to contemporary issues in Social Studies, History, Rhetorical Analysis, Ethnic Studies, and more. This series combines the research of leading scholars on topics that have permanently shaped the Mexican American identify in academia, alongside the art and activism that brought that work to the attention of the nation.
The Mexican American Studies Toolkit:
- addresses issues that are prevalent today
- provides the tools for teachers to engage students through social media and multimedia as well as the classic media of books.
- designed by scholars, teachers, writers, and activists who not only understand the research and its influence on modern issues, but who also know how to thrill and educate students in the classroom.
- marks the next era in multicultural, multi-media education.
Preface
About the Author
Introduction
UNIT I
Indigenous Roots
Where Are the Aztec Books?
Twenty Books
How Do You Build a Skyscraper?
Aztec 2.0
Only Art Can Save Us
Who Gets to Tell Their Story?
Dance of Generations
Lost History
The Other Slavery
Danza Azteca
Danza Azteca Taxcayolotl
The Legacy of Dia de Los Muertos/Day of the Dead
Honoring Dia de Los Muertos at Casa Ramirez
Folk Art Gallery
The 5 Stages of Grief You’ll Go Through When
Realizing There’s Now “Dia de los Muertos Beer”
More Than Hispanic Heritage Month
March 31: The End of a Legacy and the Beginning of One
March 31: The Legacy of Selena
Dolores: The Tip of the Pyramid
The Rock Star and the Activist
Primary Source: Interviewing Dolores Huerta
Asking Dolores: Teatro Campesino and the Ethnic
Studies Ban
More History
About Houston Latino Film Festival
UNIT II
Identity
Introduction
Librotraficante Dictionary
Which Word Is Right: “Hispanic” or “Latino”?
All Educated With No Place to Go
by Tony Diaz
Take the Cultural Quiz
Data for the Real World
Mexican American Studies Day, May 1, 2015
by Tony Diaz
Legally Defining Terms
The Legally White, Socially Brown Latino
by Lupe E. Salinas
Mexicans Ain’t White: The Gus Garcia Story
by Tony Diaz
UNIT III
Lost Histories
Six Flags
Tip of The Pyramid
U.S. History Ignoring Spanish, Mexican Contributions
by José Antonio López
Mexican American World War II Veterans
The Stories of Mexican American World War II Veterans
Identity: From Mexican American to Chicana/o, 1930–1980
by Dr. Jesse Esparza, Texas Southern University
UNIT IV
The Struggle for Ethnic Studies
A History of Chicana and Chicano Studies: From the Third
World Liberation Front to the Ban on Ethnic Studies
by Dr. Jesus Jesse Esparza
The Librotraficante: Defying Arizona’s Anti-Ethnic
Studies Law
Librotraficante Founders
I Didn’t Ask to Be a Book Smuggler The Librotraficante
Movement and the Battle for Ethnic Studies
By Claire M. Massey MA
Voices: The American Dream Through Our Books
by Tony Diaz
The Librotraficante Caravan: A Multimedia Showcase
UNIT V
Immigration
The Future of Immigration Is the Past
Ciudad de la Muerte
by Cecilia Balli
Danos un Corazón Fuerte Para Luchar (Give Us A Strong
Heart to Continue the Struggle) Living Undocumented
by Rhonda Ríos Kravitz, Marisela Hernandez,
Ernest Gutiérrez, Violeta Urizar, and Osca Sarabia
UNIT VI
Tell Your Story
The Anthropoet: A Manifesto
by Tim Hernandez
Introduction to Houston Huelga Schools
The Denver Harbor Huelga School—
An Interview with Dr. Flores .
A Response to Gil Scott-Heron’s
“A Poem for Jose Campos Torres”
What We Didn’t Know—I (Judge Ben Connally and I)
When She Walked In .
by Lupe Mendez
UNIT VII
Only Art Can Save Us: Maps to the Heart
and Soul of Mexican Americans
Top 10 Chicano Films for M.A.S.
by Tony Diaz
Chicana Films Need to Be Included in Mexican American
Studies Curricula. Award-Winning Filmmaker
Linda Garcia Merchant Tells Us Why!
by Linda Garcia Merchant
2012 MAS Banned Curriculum Book List
Complied by Elaine Romeo
The Original MAS TUSD Teachers
Every Week Is Banned Books Week for Chicanos
by Tony Diaz
Tony Diaz Diaz, El Librotraficante, is a political analyst on "What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston. He also hosts the weekly bilingual radio program Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say which covers Latino Literature, Art, and Politics on KPFT 90.1 FM Houston. His essays have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Texas Observer, Fox News Latino, CNN.com, the Los Angeles Times, and Huffington Post Latino Voices, among other publications.
Diaz founded Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writer Having Their Say (NP) in April of 1998 in Houston, Texas. NP began as a monthly reading series featuring nationally renowned authors and new writers from the community. The group grew to include the weekly radio program, Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, which has aired on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston, Texas since 2001; the Latino Book and Family Festival-the largest book fair in Houston and one of the largest in Texas; the NP MFA Initiative which cultivated more Latinos with Master’s Degrees in Writing than the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, and many other programs. The Nuestra Palabra Collection is housed at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, part of the Special Collections Division of the Houston Public Library System. Nuestra Palabra radio show broadcasts are archived at the University of Houston Libraries and Special Collections.
Nuestra Palabra formed the basis for the Librotraficantes. Diaz made national and international news when he led the Librotraficantes in defying Arizona's ban of Mexican American Studies. He along with 4 veteranos of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say: Liana Lopez aka Librotraficante Lilo, Bryan Parras aka Librotraficante HighTechAztec, Laura Acosta aka Librotraficante La Laura, and Lupe Mendez aka Librotraficante Lips Mendez organized the 2012 Librotraficante Caravan to smuggle books banned books in Tucson back into Arizona. The Librotraficantes began underground libraries across the southwest and joined a national movement to put into check Arizona’s ban of Ethnic Studies. The group has gone on to continue defending Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom, and promoting Ethnic Studies.
Diaz currently resides in Houston where he is the Director of Intercultural Initiatives at Lone Star College-North Harris and a professor of Mexican American Studies. He is the author of the novel The Aztec Love God, the editor of the anthology Latino Heretics, and is included in Hecho En Tejas: The Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature as well as other publications.