Noted filmmaker Jesús Salvador Treviño participated in and documented the most important events in the Mexican American civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s: the farm workers' strikes and boycotts, the Los Angeles school walk-outs, the Chicano Youth Conference in Denver, the New Mexico land grant movement, the Chicano moratorium against the Vietnam War, the founding of La Raza Unida Party, and the first incursion of Latinos into the media. Coming of age during the turmoil of the sixties, Treviño was on the spot to record the struggles to organize students and workers into the largest social and political movement in the history of Latino communities in the United States.
As important as his documentation of historical events is his self-reflection and chronicling of how these events helped to shape his own personality and mission as one of the most renowned Latino filmmakers. Treviño's beautifully written memoir is fascinating for its detail, insight, and heretofore undisclosed reports from behind the scenes by a participant and observer who is able to strike the balance between self-interest and reportage.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. Walkout!
- Flower Power and Vietnam
- The Shaping of Dissident Ideas
- A Community Meeting
- Beginnings
- The Making of a Mexican American
- Kill the Gabacho
- A Chicano Handshake
- Chapter Two. Delano
- Of Existence, God, and Humanity
- Chapter Three. A Hidden History
- The History I Never Knew
- The Groundskeeper
- A Career Challenge
- The East L.A. 13
- Battling My Own Racism
- Rejections
- Chapter Four. Adrift
- A Chance Meeting
- New Communicators
- A Conscientious Objector To War
- The Sal Castro Controversy
- Chapter Five. Sit-In!
- A Sit-In
- A Chicano Initiation
- A Homeboy Returns
- Chapter Six. Denver Youth Conference
- A Victory and a Defeat
- Back to Film School
- Canada
- A Changing of the Guard
- A Call to Activists
- A Crusade for Justice
- Chapter Seven. Ahora!
- A Chicano in Hollywood
- Planning a Television First
- Raza, Sí, Ahora, No!
- A Television First
- Police Brutality
- The Letter
- A Community Speaks Out
- The Latino Image in Film
- Chapter Eight. Chicano Moratorium
- Chapter Nine. The Salazar Inquest
- Inquest
- Fighting for Editorial Control
- Framing the Community
- Two Versions
- Witness to Murder?
- Another Tragedy
- Requiem-29
- Chapter Ten. Soledad
- Cleophus Adair
- Soledad
- Prisoners All
- Chapter Eleven. América Tropical
- An Activist Art Historian
- A Mexican Mural in Los Angeles
- A Walk on Olvera Street
- In Search of a Whitewashed Past
- History as Film Technique
- Restoring the Past
- Return to the Homeland
- El Maestro Siqueiros
- The March of Humanity
- Hell No, We Won’t Go!
- Chapter Twelve. Yo Soy Chicano
- Telling the Story of a People
- The Faces of La Raza
- A Poet of the People
- Journey through Aztlán
- The Cricket and the Lion
- El Grito del Norte
- Production Setbacks
- An Estranged Son Returns
- Crystal City, Aztlán
- El Jefe
- El Río Park
- The Final Cut
- A Draft Board Letter
- Chapter Thirteen. New Forms, Old Visions
- The Four Horsemen
- Yo Soy Chicano Broadcast
- América de los Indios
- Planning a Media Campaign
- A National Congreso
- Beyond Yo Soy Chicano
- Chapter Fourteen. La Raza Unida Party
- Death over Water
- The Convention Begins
- Amid Cactus and Mesquite
- State Platforms
- Party Chairman
- Aftermath
- Chapter Fifteen. Acción Chicano
- América Tropical II
- Los Vendidos
- On The Air
- La Raza Unida Aftermath
- The Winter Workshop
- Return to Los Angeles
- Somos Uno
- Attack on the Crusade
- A Time of Decision
- The Fall Season
- Wrapping It Up
- Chapter Sixteen. El Teatro Campesino
- A Neo-Mayan Philosophy
- Creating a Film Company
- The Individual Versus the Collective
- A Film Opportunity
- Neo-Mayan Capitalism
- Film Production
- New Latin American Cinema
- A Marxist Meeting
- The End of a Dream
- Back to Los Angeles
- Chapter Seventeen. Infinity Factory
- Hueristic Devices
- Project One
- A Chicano in Boston
- Math and Culture
- The End of an Era
- Chapter Eighteen. The Road Ahead
- A Legacy of Positive Change
- Then, Now, Better or Worse?
- Identity
- The Work Ahead
- Tactics
- American Me
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