of how to do historical research, but also how to do research to obtain people's history through fieldwork at the undergraduate level i am teaching mexican-american indigenous class's which deal with the racial history of the mexican americans but it deals with that history from the archaeological time period to the present in the emphasis is the indigenous past. >> and what is your background? >> aye to the mexican immigrant. i came here when i was 4-years-old. i can't tell you my age, but i came during the time when the border was basically open and we were welcomed and there were a lot of jobs in the u.s.. my father was sponsored by an employer who wanted him to be here and we settled in a little town in california which i wrote my first book on the town and my experiences growing up there. >> the mexican outsiders? >> yes, the mexican outsiders. and after that i went to the local universities of santa barbara and i went to stanford immediately after stanford i have been here and we loved the university and my father is also a professor here. >> martha menchaca to read we've been talkin

and with fieldwork and livestock to attend, horses to be broken, and vegetables to be grown, there is no such thing as an unemployed prisoner. most of the inmates have brought into warden cain's program, but for those who refuse, there's camp j., where the men spend their days in solitary confinement. >> they'll alter their behavior and once they get out into population, they won't commit another rule infraction. the ones that come here come here for serious rule infractions. it may be an aggravated fight, which is a fight with a weapon. it may be for an assault on staff. it may be for attempting to traffic drugs inside the prison. >> inmates on level one only get out one hour, two days a week. if you make it to level three, you get out three days a week. >> i got busted on a charge on aggravated rape and kidnapping. i'm not saying that i'm no saint, but i'm saying that everybody is, like, wrong, everybody did wrong. everybody in this world done stole, done lied, done killed, done did everything. ain't no crime is greater than no other crime on this earth. you got assaulting inmates s