Screening: Latino Americans – 500 Years of History (Episode 5: “Prejudice and Pride”)

In collaboration with the Fowler Museum, the CSRC presents a screening of “Prejudice and Pride,” the fifth episode of the public television series Latino Americans. The episode examines the emergences of the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and ’70s. Following the screening, Chon A. Noriega, CSRC director, will lead a discussion with Ernesto Chávez, associate professor of history at University of Texas at El Paso and former CSRC visiting researcher, about the Chicano movement’s activation of a cultural as well as a political nationalism.

This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition José Montoya’s Abundant Harvest: Works on Paper/Works on Life at the Fowler Museum, February 21-July 17, 2016.

Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, a public programming initiative produced by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), is part of an NEH initiative, The Common Good: Humanities in the Public Square.