Latino Americans: 500 Years of History: Part 5: Prejudice and Pride (1965-1980)

Mabel Rodriguez, Lecturer at the University of Michigan Spanish Department and Residential College will lead this screening and discussion of Prejudice and Pride (1965-1980). In the 1960s and 1970s a generation of Mexican Americans, frustrated by persistent discrimination and poverty, find a new way forward, through social action and the building of a new "Chicano" identity. The program repeats in Spanish on March 16th at 6:30pm.