Keywords: North Carolina, assimilation, religion.ĭespués del Terremoto (After the Earthquake). Local churches serve as important community centers and the film shows various community functions such as a quinceañera, festivals, and religious services. Through voiceovers and interviews, one learns of the circumstances that draw Latin American immigrants to Clinton and what convinces them to settle there in greater numbers. Summary: Cruceros y caminos provides a window into the evolving Latina/o community in Clinton, NC. Keywords: colonialism, experimental video, parody/satire.Ĭruceros y caminos. Summary: Made in collaboration with the comedy trio Culture Clash, this experimental video is intended as political satire on the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the “New World.” Indicative of the title, Columbus is put to trial for crimes committed against the indigenous of Americas. Lourdes Portillo.Ĭall number: 65-V8035 (Media Resource Center Library Use Only) Keywords: Chicana feminism, Chicana cultural nationalism, Chicana historiography.Ĭolumbus on Trial. Morales uses stills, photographs, music, and poetry in her film to convey her message of Chicana cultural nationalism. Summary: Considered the feminist counterpart to Luis Valdez’s I Am Joaquin, Chicana traces a historical trajectory of Chicana women/heroines starting from the Aztecs during the conquest and ending with Chicana activists circa 1970s. Keywords: gentrification, Los Angeles, Mexican-Americans, city planning.Ĭhicana. Archival footage, film stills, and interviews with former residents of Chávez Ravine and the designers of the housing project compose the film. However, the project was abandoned when opposition claimed the housing project signaled an encroachment of communism and socialism in Los Angeles. Former residents of Chávez Ravine were to be given priority for units in the housing project. Summary: Chávez Ravine documents the how three poor Mexican-American communities within Chávez Ravine (La Loma, Palo Verde, and Bishop) were displaced by the Los Angeles municipal government for the ostensible purpose of creating an ambitious housing project in the 1950s. Bullfrog Films, 2004.Ĭall number: 65-V9392 (Media Resource Center Library Use Only) Keywords: Music Black Geographies Social Movements Cultural Studies History Afrofuturism.Ĭhávez Ravine. The film collates philosophy, aesthetics, and politics, unearthing the profound socio-cultural and trans-national ramifications of Detroit Techno as a site of Black survival and futurity Summary: Stylized as a “cosmic archaeology,” Black to Techno charts the origins of Detroit’s techno culture, creating a visual collage of archival film clips, interviews, samples, and contemporary footage of the “Motor City.” Making an argument for Detroit as a cultural Mecca of Black artistic production, director Jenn Nkiru examines the inextricable relationships between music, architecture, and collective identity, as well as between human bodies and machines, history and myth, and archaeology and cosmology. Art, assimilation, California, Chicana cultural nationalism, Chicana feminism, Chicana historiography, Chicana/o identity, city planning,colonialism, consumerism, domestic workers, economic dependency, experimental film/video, family, gender/gender relations, gentrification, globalization, higher education, historiography, identity, indigeneity, Latinas, Latina/o stereotypes, Latina/o youth, Los Angeles, machismo, Mexican-Americans, nativism, New York, Nicaragua, North Carolina, parody/satire, Puerto Ricans, religion, sports, transnationalism, U.S.-Mexico (San Diego-Tijuana border).īlack to Techno.
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