Resources
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Here are the resources we mention in our Public Service Announcements for the corresponding episode.
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S1E2: Living and Learning in the Pandemic
What to do:
- Take it seriously
- Get correct information
- Get tested
- Wash your hands and face
- Wear protective face masks
- Abide with the 6-12 foot physical distancing
- Eat healthily
- Exercise
- Teach your children, family, friends, coworkers
- Pass along this information
The following are direct links to resources for the Covid-19 virus. As well, there are links specifically tailored to brown, Latino communities.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/print-resources.html?Sort=Date%3A%3Adesc
https://www.hrsa.gov/opa/COVID-19-resources
https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/covid-19-resources.html
S1E3: Los Compas Stand with Black Lives Matter
Books for: History of Systemic Racism in the United States of America:
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- American Indians, American Justice by Vine Deloria Jr., Clifford M. Lytle, et al.
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- How to Kill a City by Peter Moskowitz
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Chokehold by Paul Butler
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression 1st Edition by Joe Feagin
- City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771‒1965 by Kelly Lytle Hernández
- Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez
- Race Matters by Cornel West
- “This Land Was Mexican Once” Histories of Resistance From Northern California by Linda Heidenreich
- How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- White Rage by Carol Anderson
- Systemic Racism in the United States: Scaffolding as Social Construction by Robbie W.C. Tourse, Johnnie Hamilton-Mason, et al.
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin J. DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
- Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Jr. Vine Deloria
Documentaries on Systemic Racism:
- The Birth of a Nation
- 13th
- LA ‘92
- Incident at Oglala
- The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
- The Canary Effect
- Precious Knowledge
- Unfinished Business
- Eyes on the Prize
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Fruitvale Station
- Let The Fire Burn
- Malcolm X
- Whose Streets?
- Crime + Punishment
- Clemency
- Always in Season
- The Hate You Give
- Blindspotting
- Monsters and Men
- Slavery and the Making of America
- Documented
- The Trials of Muhammad Ali
- Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
- The Thin Blue Line
- Race Matters: America in Crisis
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
- The Central Park Five
- Agents of Change: The Longest Student Strike in U.S. History
- A Good Day to Die
- Wounded Knee: We Shall Remain, America Through Native Eyes
- Race: The Power of an Illusion
- Vincent Who?
- Profiled
- The Long Shadow
- White Like Me
- The Murder of Fred Hampton
- Just Mercy
- If Beale Street Could Talk
S1E4: Brown Hollywood
Books we recommend:
- The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino in American Cinema The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture by Rosa Linda Fregoso
- The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media by Maria Elena Cepeda – 2016
- LatinX Voices: Hispanics in Media in the U.S by Katie Coronado, Erica Kight – 2018
- MeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands by Rosa-Linda Fregoso
- Talking #BrownTV: Latinas and Latino on the Screen by Frederick Luis Aldama and William Anthony Nericcio
- Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing And Making Of A People by Dávila, Arlene
- Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance (Texas Film and Media Studies Series) by Charles Ramírez Berg
- Heros, Lover, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood by Clara E. Rodriguez
- Latino/a Popular Culture edited by Michelle Habell-Pallan and Mary Romero
- Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom by Mary C. Beltran
Latino Portrayals in the Media (web resource).
Articles:
- L.A. Times “Latino representation in Hollywood movies is abysmal. Here’s the proof” By SONAIYA KELLEY.
- A study from USC: “The study found that among 1,200 popular films released between 2007 and 2018 (a sample of the top 100 films per year), just 4.5% of more than 47,000 speaking or named roles went to Latinx actors. Only 3% were lead or co-leads.”
- “Stereotypical portrayals of the Latinx community also abound. Across 200 films examined, approximately 25% of Latinx speaking characters were depicted as criminals and 17% were portrayed as poor or low income. Thirty-six percent of all Latinx speaking characters and 60% of top-billed Latinx actors were depicted separately from a larger Latinx community, which translates to a lack of cultural artifacts, traditions and other signifiers that might showcase the characters’ ethnicity.”
- The Guardian –Hollywood basks in diversity praise but Latinos ask: are we invisible?
- “The last Hispanic actor to win an Oscar was Penelope Cruz in 2009 for her supporting role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. No Latina has ever won for a leading role, and only one man has done so – José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac in 1951.”
- Latino representation in film remains limited, despite history of inclusion – Daily Bruin. Friday, July 3, 2020
- “In February, Alfonso Cuarón was awarded an Academy Award for best achievement in directing for his film “Roma,” which follows the life of a middle class family’s maid in Mexico City.
- Actress Yalitza Aparicio was the first indigenous actress nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. Additionally, “Roma” was the first Mexican film to win an Academy Award for best foreign language film.”
S1E11: Brown Men in I.T.
- Los Compas explore the question, why is it that Latinos are the largest minority in the US but only make up less than 2% of the STEM workforce? STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Los Compas offer words of encouragement for parents to expose their children to STEM-focused careers.
- https://www.studentresearchfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Hispanics_STEM_Report_Final-1.pdf