Movie Ref

Part one: due by 10 hours today
Watch Episodes 1 and 2 of the PBS Documentary Latino Americans. Respond to the following questions in thoughtful and developed paragraphs.

Episode 1: Foreigners in Their Own Land

Think about the different ways that Mexican citizens came to terms with the expansion of the United States and the ways in which they became foreigners in their own lands within a very short time.

What did U.S. expansion mean for them personally? Were they able to preserve their status, property and rights? If so, how? If not, what happened to them and how did they respond?
A combination of attitudes, economic strategies and brute force were used to erode Mexican rights and social structures in California and Texas. What are some examples of these different tactics?
Compare the experience of California and Texas with that of New Mexico. How was the experience of U.S. expansion different there?
Often, traditional views of U.S. history look westward and move from East to West. What other perspectives and issues are connected to this?
Episode 2: Empire of Dreams

Consider the various individuals discussed in this episode. How are their stories different from each other? How are the stories similar? Is it possible to suggest there is a single narrative that explains how Latinos came to the United States? Explain, citing examples from the film.
What are some of the important national or international events that are linked to the experiences of the individuals in the documentary? In other words, how do these personal stories represent broader historical trends of political and/or economic change in the Americas?
Why might Puerto Ricans in particular take issue with being perceived as immigrants?
Do you know your own family’s story of arrival to the United States? If not, what would you presume about that arrival experience? How might the experience of the characters from Latino Americans be similar or different to your family’s story of arrival?
What are some of the stereotypes about when and how Latinos have come to the United States? In what ways do the stories challenge stereotypes about Latinos and how they have arrived in this country?
Did the arrival of the United States necessarily mean the arrival of the brand of equality and democracy that are associated with it? Why or why not?
When land transferred from the control of Mexico to the United States, there were certainly implications for the Mexican elite. But what communities — which had been on these lands longest of all — were subjugated under both Mexican and U.S. regimes? If the Mexican elite suffered during expansion, what do you think was the implication for the mestizo and Indian communities?

Part 2: due by 9 hours today
Watch the following episodes on ART 21 and respond to the questions:

Pepón Osorio is influenced by his experience as a social worker in The Bronx. Osorio’s work usually evolves froman interaction with specific people, places and incidents. “My principal commitment as an artist is to return artto the community,” says Osorio. Osorio’s art often reflects a very specific experience, either in his own life or in the life of the community.

1. How is the cultural history of a place defined? Maintained? Assimilated? How does Osorio’s work
express his Latino culture? How does Osorio make use of stereotypes?
2. Osorio says that being an artist has enabled him to resolve his feeling of being “displaced”. What do you think he means by this, and how is this feeling reflected or resolved in his art? How do stereotypes and exploring feelings of displacement connect to American myths or ideals? How does this compare to the artist Do Ho Suh?
Manglano-Ovalle says, “All my work, even the most formal work, has an underlying politics to it. But I don’t want to reveal my position.” What do you think about this statement and how it connects to his art?
How does science inform Manglano-Ovalle’s working process, media choices, and subject matter? Discuss how natural forms such as clouds and icebergs serve as metaphors to address social issues such as immigration and identity. How does his work and subject matter compare with Osorio or the other artists in terms of stereotypes and American identity?

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