Yo Soy Chicano

Portrays, through interviews with Chicano leaders and actors dramatically recreating key events in Mexican history, the Chicano experience from its roots in Pre-Columbian history to the present. Points out that Mexican-Americans, who comprise five percent of the U.S. population and twenty percent of all Vietnam casualties, have been subject to racism and exploitation throughout their history. Discusses solutions to this oppression in interviews with Dolores Huerta (United Farmworkers), Reies Lopez Tijerina (Federal Alliance of Free States), Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez (Crusade for Justice), and Jose Angel Gutierrez (La Raza Unida)., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.