{"id":3657,"date":"2023-05-07T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/?page_id=3657"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:54:20","slug":"latino-a-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/?page_id=3657","title":{"rendered":"Latino\/a Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>&#8216;Latino\/a&#8217; often conceals more than it reveals. Here we will cover the entire range of Spanish-speaking peoples in North America&#8211;Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Salvadoreans and many more&#8211;while they share some things in common, they are also unique in many ways that we will respect.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Restoration of the Monroe Doctrine:  Trump\u2019s Imperialist Offensive in Latin America By Tiago Nogara  <a href=\"https:\/\/mronline.org\/2025\/09\/03\/the-restoration-of-the-monroe-doctrine-and-trumps-imperialist-offensive-in-latin-america\/\" title=\"\">ACCESS HERE<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/President_Trump_Meets_with_President_Bolsonaro_49646443832-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump greeting Brazil&#8217;s Bolasario, now in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forced Amnesia: The Hidden History Of America&#8217;s Far West<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/far-west-history.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/far-west-history.png 772w, https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/far-west-history-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/far-west-history-768x488.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An emotional and historical journey through the American West on the tracks of the pre-1848 border, to meet families that lived there since long before the US takeover. Suppressed memories and fascinating personal histories, shining new light on identities &#8211; indigenous, mestizo, Crypto-Jewish, Afro-Latin &#8211; all remain ignored and distorted in the official versions of history still taught today. 53 minute video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SpnYOFWzzy0&amp;list=PPSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>WATCH HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Latino\/a in America<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306033352\/http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1gozOLZcQsgEEla6-8Yal-CsPJib3SP09MbNQRrr-cp4rHioLkw\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306033352im_\/http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1gozOLZcQsgEEla6-8Yal-CsPJib3SP09MbNQRrr-cp4rHioLkw\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:161px;height:133px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CNN Series with Soledad O&#8217;Brien in 20 10-Minute Videos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vtRWiNQusM4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-image stk-block-image has-text-align-left stk-block stk-f908659\" data-block-id=\"f908659\"><style>.stk-f908659 .stk-img-wrapper{width:74% !important;height:488px !important;}<\/style><figure><span class=\"stk-img-wrapper stk-image--shape-stretch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"stk-img wp-image-4426\" src=\"http:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LOZAno.jpg\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LOZAno.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LOZAno-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LOZAno-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LOZAno-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LOZAno-1536x1117.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/LOZAno-2048x1490.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/span><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cA Search for Unity: Rudy Loza<\/strong><strong>no<\/strong><strong> and Coalition Building in Chicago\u201d<\/strong> explores the activism of a young Chicagoan who was driven to make change by bringing people together. Trace Lozano\u2019s efforts to build unity among Latinx communities in his Near West Side neighborhoods, documented and undocumented workers fighting for better conditions, and Black, Latinx, and white Chicagoans who organized for political change. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PFDG_t7iRGU\">Lozano&#8217;s Unity speech via YouTube here<\/a><\/strong><br clear=\"none\" \/><br clear=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Latino History and Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14-week course syllabus from Nick DeGenova of Columbia University. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/itc\/anthropology\/degenova\/client_edit\/course_syllabus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306033352\/http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSE3VIzi79XPYqyQHvzM0Dg3o9qIkOuAgp-qgN6uTYyPMArbV8TVw\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306033352im_\/http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSE3VIzi79XPYqyQHvzM0Dg3o9qIkOuAgp-qgN6uTYyPMArbV8TVw\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harvest of Empire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15-Minute Interview: Juan Gonzales of Democracy Now discusses the new edition of his book. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ORz75JKlJ5g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306033352\/http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRK-_anEOnzbsDG8pv8jU6SE1jqXeu91XsnMdTzg1CpZVoZwiECig\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306033352im_\/http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRK-_anEOnzbsDG8pv8jU6SE1jqXeu91XsnMdTzg1CpZVoZwiECig\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>500 Years of Chicana Women&#8217;s History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Half-Hour lecture in three parts by Elizabeth Martinez, author of the book. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JzYISUV_Sc8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/ouleft.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3658\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Zapatista History of Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two videos (30 minutes) summarizing the hostory of Mexico from the bottom up, from the view of the native peoples and the poor, with a presentation by Subcommandante Marcos. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_5jpWCvGao&amp;feature=bf_next&amp;list=UUi9ZXkbGQKureKzY6UMXxEg&amp;lf=plcp\"><strong>Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Class Apart: Mexicans in Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306033352im_\/https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/513RUWxezxL._SY445_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:225px;height:319px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_5jpWCvGao&amp;feature=bf_next&amp;list=UUi9ZXkbGQKureKzY6UMXxEg&amp;lf=plcp\"><strong>Access Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306033352im_\/https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMTYxMDEyMzYxNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzIxMzQ5MQ@@._V1_UY268_CR12,0,182,268_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHICANO: QUEST FOR A HOMELAND.<\/strong> One hour PBS documentary. The Chicano Movement encompassed a broad cross-section of issues\u2014from the restoration of land grants, farm workers&#8217; rights, enhanced education, voting and political rights, and emerging awareness of collective history. Socially, the Chicano Movement addressed what it perceived to be negative ethnic stereotypes of Mexicans in mass media and the American consciousness. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RHQ4XS-DrqM\">ACCESS HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><br clear=\"none\"><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230306033352im_\/https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSP2FrSOtm0BapRvv3Cu72b3m0vq3oQ5TZ9RqD3AfkcfrWaaTqm\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Latino Americans: The PBS Series<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;LATINO AMERICANS&#8217; is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape North America over the last 500-plus years. With more than 50 million people, they have become the largest minority group in the U.S. American history&#8217;s changing and yet repeating context provides a backdrop for the drama of individual lives. It is a story of immigration and redemption, anguish and celebration, and the gradual construction of a new American identity that connects and empowers millions today.&nbsp; Four hours, one hour per part. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2365075996\/\">ACCESS HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Latino\/a&#8217; often conceals more than it reveals. Here we will cover the entire range of Spanish-speaking peoples in North America&#8211;Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Salvadoreans and many more&#8211;while they share some things in common, they are also unique in many ways that we will respect. 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