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Tierra Mia.pdfLa Tierra Mia
La Tierra Mia
This is an excerpt from La Tierra Mia book. This excerpt explains the importance of Chicano Park as a sacred land that embodies all of the labor, struggle, love, and community that went in to making what it is today. Embedded in La Tierra are themes that relate to the murals and posters. These themes explore the intragenerational and gendered experiences of Logan residents/Chicano people. These themes can be used to categorize the posters to help students understand larger ideas and contextualize larger issues that span across the park's history.
Additional Themes
Additional Themes
While Tierra Mia provides important themes to contextualize the posters as they relate to Chicano Park history, each year will be "tagged" with additional themes. For lesson-building, teachers can use the search bar on the website home page to look up the themes and narrow down the relevant years to the chosen theme.
Eric Avila, Folklore of the Freeway
Eric Avila, Folklore of the Freeway
This academic monograph is a cultural history of the freeway revolts that occurred across minority urban neighborhoods in the United States. Communities that did not have political and economic power looked to different expressions of resistance, such as muralism. Read about the history of Chicano Park and the role of muralism here.
About the author: Eric Avila is an urban cultural historian, studying the intersections of racial identity, urban space, and cultural representation in twentieth century America. Since 1997, he has taught Chicano Studies and History at UCLA and holds an affiliation with the Department of Urban Planning.
Guiding Values & Principles of Ethnic Studies
Guiding Values & Principles of Ethnic Studies
The "Double Helix" concept of Ethnic Studies intertwines holistic humanization and critical consciousness as integral to pedagogical frameworks. Holistic humanization represents an awareness of self and the relationship to community and human experience, while critical consciousness is about mobilization and transformative action. The California Department of Education's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum explores the concept of the Double Helix and the values that with which lessons and learning should engage.
GUIDING VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF ETHNIC STUDIES.pdfSOURCE ANALYSIS
_SOJ; 7Cs of Freedom Mapping_HGP-CHSSP.docx.pdf7 Cs Analysis
7 Cs Analysis
The 7 C's of Historical Analysis is a great starting point for students to be able to contextualize and understand primary source material. For the purposes of this project, several of the years contain a news article to read parallel to looking at the Chicano Park Day posters. This way, students can use the article as a source for which to ground the posters in the particular set of issues and thems that the posters deal with.
Analyzing Art
Analyzing Art
This template, provided by the National Archives, is specifically geared towards analyzing the visual medium. It helps students break art down into its many parts in order to make sense of its references, significance, and overall message/intent. This worksheet can be used for younger students/ thoe just beginning to engage with the visual medium.
analyze-artwork-novice.pdfanalyze-a-poster-novice.pdfAnalyzing Posters
Analyzing Posters
Another resource from the National Archives, this poster analysis worksheet helps students compartmentalize the posters and look more closely at iconography, textual references, and political messages woven throughout. Because the posters combine all of these elements, this worksheet might be better suited for students who already have some understanding of primary source analysis/the visual medium.
ABOUT THE ARTICLES
The large majority of the newspaper articles provided on the website are from the San Diego Union Tribune, the local mainstream reporting outlet for San Diego County. SDUT mainly reports from an outsider perspective but at times, as the articles prove, provide both sides of the debate on issues such as the creation of the bayfront park, saving the murals, or issues that the community took on and used the park as a meeting point to protest.
In some of the earlier years, lesser known journals reported on Chicano hot topics and political issues and offer more of a perspective of the grassroots organizers. Voz Fronteriza, for instance, was a student-run social justice editorial stemming from UCSD's M.E.Ch.A organization. El Tiempo Chicano was also a community-run journal that hailed from the Chicano community of National City, San Diego, less than 10 miles from Chicano Park. El Gallo was published in Denver, CO, which was another center of Chicano activism and many Colorado activists came to participate in the Chicano Park Day celebrations. La Verdad, another San Diego-based journal, makes one appearance in the poster archive from the 1970s. Many of the original versions of these journals, and more, are housed in the Chicano Movement Newspaper Collection at UC Santa Barbara.
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