there was a chicano journalist in l.a. ruben salazar who was killed by the police during the chicano moratorium. i have been reading a lot of this stuff. i noticed in the 70s the word chicano was part of the national lexicon in those times. was spoken about in congress, it was -- there was an article in the wall street journal about a bunch of chicanos in east l.a. and what was going on and over time we have gotten away from that word and that history that that word has become a very scary word because people's fear and ignorance. a lot of them media and a lot of people have clung to pushing that word and anything related to that word off to the side, it is tied in a hushed kind of word so i think it is almost accepted in the media nowadays that it has anything to do with mexican-american studies or chicano studies or anything, doesn't even relate to the studies, if you are not talking about immigration, the media, or a latino voting bloc, the media doesn't really talk about it. they will use words like latino or illegal.

what is chicano? you say that you were part of a chicano movement, chicano identified city. so define chicano. >> chicano and the chicano movement during the 1960s was a movement of mexican americans, primarily, many of whom were college students, who were pushing for civil rights for the latino community in california, but nationwide as well. the term chicano actually has many different connotations, and many different folks view it in different ways. for me it has always been a term that reflects an awareness of where you've come from and where your community is trying to go. and it's that particular part that was something my father instilled in me a lot, and it was part of our regular discussions of what it meant to grow up latino-- at the time we didn't use latino, we said chicano-- in california. so reading chicano literature, listening to mariachi music, and being aware of that were all things that were part of my growing up experience. >> hinojosa: right, but when you ended up going to berkeley, you had an experience that was interesting, which is the more radicalize

some of the most important leaders of the chicano movement are present. so this is who i mentioned earlier. the leader from new mexico and this goes way back to the 19th century was that people of mexican descent and the mexico and southern colorado were poor because of the loss of land, land that was stolen from them at the end after the mexican war that was supposed to be protected by the which ends the mexican war but that is taken from them over a generation or two. if this land is restored, these people wouldn't be poor. he build a movement in mexico that increased, that had more and more -- it gets more and more attention from the chicano activists around the south west indies and nationally. so come here is sitting where she knows next to dr. king we have a mexican-american leaders from california who cut his teeth and labor organizing in the 1930's and 40's in southern california coming and then found a political organization called the mexican-american political organization association in california. jose gutierez who is one of the founders of t

the whole effort to put the chicano or indigenous woman's experience on center stage is, in itself, for euro-american theaters, a radical position. because of the state of theater, it is a hard roll to hold up in institution. it is a hard road. i am looking at where we are 25 years later in the bay area, looking at how hard it is for us to strive to keep our theater is going, etc. i like to think that i'm not struggling quite as hard, personally, but what i mean by that, the intention, the commitment. particularly, to produce works that would not be produced in other places, and also to really nurture women of color artists. i think that is something that has not shifted for me in those 25 years, and it is good to see that brava remains committed to that kind of work.

i was in a mexican-american, a chicano town. my dad was a launch your worker. my mother was an office worker at usc. my parents were divorced when i was 10 years old. i moved to the east coast and lived there for six years and then fled back to california after high school. i went to school at uc santa barbara. i have been in san francisco since 1989, have lived in the excelsior since 1999. the difficulty is, muni often sees it as an industrial area, not a neighborhood. we have to figure out how to make it work as a neighborhood and as a place that can service the light rail vehicles. i have had lots of different jobs. my main job has been doing social work for san francisco state university. i have been a community organizer, a social worker, but i have also been a legislative aide. i worked mostly for community- based organization supporting kids and families, working for labor. i got to see how city hall could be an effective tool to create change. i looked at running in 2007, 2008, and somehow i made it. i have been in politics for so many ways, doing work

. >> felix solis is a member of occ, ogden's craziest chicanos, a local utah gang.e's serving 11 months for possession of a controlled substance. >> i've never seen so much gang all in one place before. if you're gang-banging, and you're down for your set, you're down for it, no matter what it takes. >> you can tell any time something's going on. any time there's any type of issue or anything like that, the section will split apart. >> certain words will be said. there's some obvious words, punk, bitch, stuff like that. >> going up to somebody saying "f" your hood or something like that. >> even if it doesn't involve you, even if it's two different rival gangs, you'll go and gravitate towards your own gang because you never know what's going to happen. >> within our last three or four assaults, what happened it started out with two inmates. but then inmates from those same games jumped in. we've had seven, eight, nine inmates fighting at once. >> to combat gang violence, officers are on constant alert for weapons. cells are checked twice daily. and all inmates are s

mexican-american chicanos studies. not all were mexican-american studies that people were finally realizing that latinos and especially mexican-americans are now all across the united states. we know this from the 2012 election where the republican party we had a candidate who recycled a -- of self deportation. he thought he was going to get people to vote for him. instead latinos -- -- a day later with the republican party yeah, yeah applaud that. now republicans are oh my -- there are latinos. who cares if they been demonizing them for the past 25 five years. let's last demonize them now but it's going to continue to exist. this is galvanizing for those of us in the trenches who say okay if you're going to go after literature you find subversive view of art up in going after civil rights in the up and going after language and you've been going after us for 20 some years if you really want to take a back to the old days, 150 years, you been going about this for while and now they're going back to books. that needs to