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96. The children of immigrants intermarry with the ancestors of other immigrants and fully participate in mainstream American society. TWM has provided translations for most of these expressions. 0000006716 00000 n
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Bridges to Reading I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God. Cholo: a person who is of mixed Spanish and native American heritage; a half-breed; it is often pejorative. Bibliography. 0000014050 00000 n
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15. Muchacho malcriado, ahora veras: spoiled boy, now you will see. : Hello, my love, what are you making? That is American ethnicity at its best. Bartra says that European influence was the start of the “institutional racism” in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, but it’s a type of racism that has never been acknowledged. In total, it is estimated that two million people of Mexican ancestry were forcibly relocated to Mexico. or Hello, my love, what are you doing? However, Memo was doing well as was Irene. Vos tenes que ayudarme: You have to help me. 0000106871 00000 n
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O tiene un solo vestido: or just one dress — this line and line # * are from the album “Bachata Rosa” by Juan Luis Guerra. This began with the 13 colonies and continues to this day. How do these examples impact the Sanchez family? 0000105293 00000 n
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While some discrimination against African-Americans persists, assimilation has reached the point where the culture of black Americans is usually the same as that of other Americans of the same economic class. Alterity, Ethnicity and Racism in the Search for the Origins of Adopted People. 2. [U.S. emigration policy has been assimilationist, fostering the “melting pot” in which immigrants adapt to the majority and adopt the U.S. way of life, leaving the culture of the old country behind. 0000107453 00000 n
An estimated two million people were deported to Mexico, 60% of them U.S. citizens. But that subculture itself is distinctly and uniquely American; it is certainly not the result of any African heritage. What must naturalized American citizens agree to do? 3. Ese: slang to refering to the person you are talking to; it is often seen as a perjorative reference to a person of Hispanic heritage. 0000107075 00000 n
What are some examples of institutional racism in this movie? On Dora Burnor’s 60th birthday, she and her family celebrated with rich plates of Italian pasta. 48. 0000042581 00000 n
Today, we'll be talking to Miriam Robles (no relation) she is the Environmental Activism Coordinator for Mi Familia Vota-Arizona, she'll educate us more on this issue and how we've seen this is Arizona. 0000104744 00000 n
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97. the belief in the importance of due process of law and adherence to the rule of law; tolerance of and equal treatment for people despite differences in race, religion, national origin, gender, and, most recently, sexual orientation; the majority rules but cannot transgress upon the rights of individuals or minorities set out in the Bill of Rights; a respect for freedom of speech and of association; that people who work hard and play by the rules should be rewarded; and. 0000027256 00000 n
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40. For Memo, his Mexican heritage was almost an embarrassment. Social media users are sharing their experiences with racism on the Caribbean islands and the hashtags speak volumes. See Spanish Expressions in My Family/Mi Familia. There was a raid in a park in Los Angeles in February of 1931 in which they literally rounded up all the folk in that park who appeared to be of Mexican descent, put them on flatbed trucks under armed guard to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, on a train that was under lock and key and literally forced them on and–onto the train, and the train took them to the interior of Mexico. 5. 0000010632 00000 n
[Another way to ask this question is “Would it have been wrong for Jose and Maria to expect more from life, such as better outcomes for some of their children?”. However, in most cases little else of the old ways survive. TWM has identified the following, there are probably more. 0000041641 00000 n
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Possible Problems Limited aspects of the old cultures persist, particularly in music, food, celebration of holidays, and, most importantly, in religion. 0000010146 00000 n
120. 105. Students will have a greater understanding of the Mexican-American experience. Mi Familia 2: Class Order Family Tribe is a silent, experimental documentary by Queer/Latino/Native American filmmaker Rob Fatal. 0000028439 00000 n
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This shows the distance between Chucho and his friends – and enemies – from their Hispanic roots, and also their ties to their community of people of Mexican origin. 6. 0000016462 00000 n
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The U.S. Episcopalian Church, a branch of the world-wide Anglican Communion (formerly the Church of England), is at odds with other Anglican churches in its endorsement of same-sex marriage. However, there are well over a hundred instances in which Spanish is spoken and no translation is provided. 48. 0000042502 00000 n
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Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of My Family: Mi Familia with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at TVGuide.com : What am I going to do? In another scene, Maria is watching a telenovela in Spanish. CCSS pp. ¿Si, mi Chapulin? Mi Familia Vota Yesterday at 2:03 PM Join MFV NV and organizer from Ecomadres- Cinthia Moore, as we expla ... in what environmental racism is and also discuss President Biden’s environmental plan! Tu café con leche está listo:Your coffe with milk is ready. There are many examples of this. Anti-Racism Movie Guide Mi Familia Overview/Description: "Mi Familia" is the story of the Sanchez family's experience of life in the United States. 0000014002 00000 n
Me acabo de casar y no se adonde voy a ir: I just got married and I don’t know what I’m going to do. 111. 0000018784 00000 n
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116. te voy a comer vivo, vas a ver: I’m going to eat you alive, you’ll see. This is called Environmental Racism yet not enough people know about this. Hear author Carrie Lara, PsyD, read The Heart of Mi Familia aloud and offer some ideas for activities to explore family identity. 26 0 obj
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17. Compare and contrast the sense of “community”that Mario Suárez presents in his short story “El Hoyo” withthat of Mi familia. 118. 0000014588 00000 n
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112. The Repatriation of persons of Mexican Descent in during the Great Depression; The differences between immigrants “integrating” into the economic life of a country but retaining their ethnic identity and, The different goals of immigration policy in the U.S. and another country that you select. Mi Familia, Mi Historia What is Mi Familia, Mi Historia? While Maria and Jose have integrated into American economic life and assimilated many American values, they have also retained much of their Mexican culture. My Family/Mi Familia touches upon many of the important points in the history of Mexican immigration to the U.S. during the 20th Century. 0000010486 00000 n
Pero ese nino es un desgraca: But, that child is a disgrace. 0000034407 00000 n
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“This is the great American story, told again and again, of how our families came to this land and tried to make it better for their children.” Rogert Ebert. 0000021458 00000 n
As a further result of these illegal activities, United States citizens and legal residents were separated from their families and country and were deprived of their livelihood and United States constitutional rights. 2) People have a tendency to mold their perceptions to fit their current beliefs. 0000108065 00000 n
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Este pastel esta muy bueno: This cake is very good. Most of the deportations were done by force. Available from Amazon.com. Each of these groups have been subjected to discriminatory practices, for example, during WWII Americans of Japanese descent who lived on the West Coast were sent to internment camps. 0000105491 00000 n
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor; 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice; Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person; How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids; In Conversation: Desmond Cole and Téa Mutonji Another humanitarian goal is to unite families by allowing citizens and legal residents to bring family members to the U.S. A third goal is to limit the number of immigrants so that they can be absorbed without changing the nature of U.S. society. 0000108368 00000 n
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13. aboratte*: colloquial for “go away,” “leave,” “disappear yourself.”. 27. 0000040035 00000 n
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14. Students can be also be asked to write about assimilation and the retention of the ethnicity of the countries of origin in their own families. 0000107348 00000 n
Assignments and Projects, CCSS Anchor Standards “I Love Lucy” was a popular show. For example, while there is still some debate, same-sex marriage is accepted by most Americans. 0000038564 00000 n
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¿Que dolor, no? [Primary Source for the last two paragraphs: California Government Code §§ 8721 & 8722, The Mexican Repatriation Apology Act.]. No te hagas rogar: You don’t have to beg. Teachers are encouraged to review the specific standards to make sure that over the term all standards are met. 0000032586 00000 n
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Authorities in California and other states instituted programs to wrongfully remove persons of Mexican ancestry and secure transportation arrangements with railroads, automobiles, ships, and airlines to effectuate the wholesale removal of people out of the United States to Mexico. Discussion Questions 0000013235 00000 n
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The film needs no introduction. Try too avoid use of first person (I think, I feel, I believe, It appears to me, etc) Also, please try to use active voice (The film shows…) as opposed to passive voice … What are the filmmakers trying to tell us with these scenes? There are, unfortunately, many examples of societies in which religious and ethnic tensions have led to chaos and death. The first seven questions relate to assimilation of immigrants into U.S. culture. FICTION (SOAPS, DRAMAS, AND REALITY/SURVIVAL SHOW), The Immigrant Experience Through Literature for Young Adults, My Family/Mi Familia Script – Dialogue Transcript from Drew’s Script-o-rama, City of Angels’ First Name Still Bedevils Historians, Anglican Communion Suspends U.S. Episcopal Church Over Same-Sex Marriage, the belief that all people “are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness;”. 0000106652 00000 n
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Contrast this to the Middle East in which the Shiites and Sunnis kill each other, the “Troubles” or Northern Ireland, or Rwanda in which the Hutus murdered almost a million Tutsis in the 1994 genocide. 0000025206 00000 n
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A fourth goal is to keep out terrorists and those who would threaten our security. 0000106472 00000 n
There were the Elliotts, the Douglases, the Armstrongs, the MaGregors, etc. (Unfortunately, some Americans have lost this value.). Reading: Anchor Standards #s 1, 2, 7 and 8 for Reading and related standards (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). Racism and prejudice against certain ethnic minorities has skewed the process of assimilation, but it still strongly affects these groups. 0000014246 00000 n
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However, discrimination and the efforts of misguided and prejudiced people to exclude them from American society may delay assimilation, but the process continues. 0000027047 00000 n
Apurate: hurry up (When Irene says this to her sister Toni, she is being sarcastic.). What are some examples of institutional racism in this movie? 0000029488 00000 n
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The essay argues that although Mi Familia was influenced by US black-oriented programming, its conceptualization responded to Puerto Rico’s racial, cultural, historical, and social ideologies, and subsequently re-articulated the differences between Puerto … 0000084766 00000 n
This timely and essential report interrogates the nature and extent of racism against people of African descent in Ireland. These values are not necessarily antithetical to the values of the cultures from which the emigrants come. 0000041840 00000 n
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These goals are not always consistent, and compromises may have to be made between competing values. 0000010389 00000 n
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Almost all Americans love spaghetti, pizza, tacos, burritos, Chinese food, etc. 119. California State Senator Joe Dunn, interviewed on Remembering California’s ‘Repatriation Program’ by NPR, January 2, 2006, said. 0000009902 00000 n
Y mi jefita, como está? Please join this conversation with Harrison Guy, the Founder and Artistic Director of Urban Souls Dance Company.Topics may include disproportional arts funding, black bodies in white spaces, appropriation, inclusion, erasure, or other related topics. 0000017838 00000 n
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Speaking and Listening: Anchor Standards #s 1 – 3 (for ELA classes). What is the significance of the fact that after Chucho is kicked out of the house, he and his friends (and his enemies) are next shown dancing to non-Hispanic popular music. Another way of providing students with this information is to print out The California Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program, Cal. 83. 0000024133 00000 n
Supplement the information in the statute by telling students that states all over the country participated in the program with particularly large deportations in California, Colorado, and Texas. Mi Familia: Nava’s “double-edged sword” Depicting Mexicans in a New World by burakdharkan The reason why I choose to call the film “a double-edged sword” is because of Nava’s over-simplifying of Mexican people and the struggle they had. 0000011873 00000 n
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Racism and prejudice against certain ethnic minorities has skewed the process of assimilation, but it still strongly affects these groups. Spanning three generations, this film shows the various relationships that each family member has toward their cultural identities and their desire to become "Americans." Explícame qué pasa aqui: Explain to me what’s going on here. Also, Lucy was mainstream white, while her husband was Hispanic. 0000026642 00000 n
Pachuco: a male member of a Mexican-American subculture in the 1930s to 1950; pachucos wore zoot suits, had an exuberant nightlife, and engaged in flamboyant public behavior; some were associated with street gangs. 0000005269 00000 n
Benefits of the Movie On occasion massive raids were conducted on Mexican-American communities, resulting in the clandestine removal of thousands of people, many of whom were never able to return to the United States. While some mainstream American Catholics also became nuns, by the time Toni leaves the Church and marries a non-Mexican, she is fully assimilated. For example, the dignity of work is a traditional value of the culture which most Mexican and Central American immigrants bring when they come to the U.S. What are some examples of cultural racism in this movie? 0000105860 00000 n
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For several years in many gatherings in California, one of the hosts at the Elliott Clan tent was a Japanese-American who had no connection with Scottland other than the fact that he had fallen in love with the Elliott clan. Mocoso, ya veras: Sntty nosed squirt, you will see. I know I’m a lil late but I’m still in shock thinking about my birthday this year. 45. 0000014344 00000 n
No tienes consciensia: You have no conscience. 6. Selected Awards & Cast, Helpful Background Any of the discussion questions can serve as a writing prompt. In California alone, approximately 400,000 American citizens and legal residents of Mexican ancestry were forced to go to Mexico. there are certain core values of the majority culture. 0000023136 00000 n
The Museum built bridges through a unique collaboration with Casa Familiar and University of California San Diego’s Institute of Arts and Humanities. 0000107780 00000 n
Toni had a new interesting life, and Jimmy had a purpose in life. 5. 5. 0000022042 00000 n
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CCSS pg. The phrase that the Hoover administration used was “American jobs for real Americans.” Well, if you were born and raised right here in the United States but just happened to be of Mexican descent, in the Hoover administration’s eyes, you were not a, quote, “real American,” But that was the designed purposed of the program, to create jobs due to the rising number of unemployment at that time. The African heritage of black Americans has been almost completely lost. What are some examples ofcultural racism in this movie? 0000035022 00000 n
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103. Second, there are the humanitarian goals of allowing people who are suffering from political persecution or who are at risk of being victims of extreme violence to come to a safe place to live. 71. 0000072199 00000 n
Watch the movie with your child and discuss the immigration history of your family or that of a family that you know. 0000006949 00000 n
Do you have to be “assimilated” to be an American Citizen? Chucho, like modern-day gang members, got stuck in a nether world in which he rejected the culture of his father in which hard work was a sign of dignity. : And Dad, what does he say? View Test Prep - "Mi Familia" Study Guide.docx from CHST 1B at University of California, Santa Barbara.
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