US Latinx Activism and Protests: From the Farm to the (Legislative) Table

Collection

In this project, shaped by collective thinking and based on interactions with non-hierarchical historic materials as well as digital archives from UCLA Digital Library Collection, Smithsonian, The Getty Museum, and Stanford U, students determined four organic categories: periodicals, documentaries, video interviews, and IIIF images. These categories are not comprehensive, but subjective and even haphazard, due to porous borders between them. For example, sometimes there are periodicals embedded as IIIF images. In this case, we included the object in both categories. Or a documentary contained interviews, and in such case student made a comment clarifying the emphasis given. These are, simply, curatorial decisions and the materials were chosen by the students and the Professor. 

The map widget reveals the geo-spatial coordinates of the materials analyzed by students. Even though the course was structured around the protests and activism in the United States during the XX and XXI century, other adjacent topics were covered, such as the migration from Central Americans crossing through Mexico, and the Guatemalan Genocide (1960-1996).

In recent years, the United States has witnessed a surge in Latinx protests, highlighting the demand for social justice. These protests have brought up issues such as including immigration policies, racial discrimination, unequal access to education & housing, and sanitation deficits. Latinxs have taken to the streets, organizing marches, demonstrations, and rallies to voice their concerns and advocate for change. We hope for immigration reform, an end to family separations, the protection of DACA recipients, and the dismantling of systemic barriers that disproportionately affect Latinx communities. The images in the grid above are proof of that.

Hereunder, the reader can find some of the group and individual pages from students--all of them can be accessed through the index--:

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