>> hinojosa: of how many trucks? >> initially we were in a large convoy of, like, 600 vehicles long. >> hinojosa: oh, my gosh. and you were just driving though... is it really the way you describe it in the book? it's just complete desert? >> desert. >> hinojosa: for hours and hours and hours. >> and, i mean, if you get lost, you get turned around, y can't even tell which way is up. >> hinojosa: so how does it happen that if you're in a convoy of 600 cars-- trucks, right?-- that suddenly you guys get lost? i mean, first of all you end up in an urban area. >> yes. >> hinojosa: and you started questioning. you were like, "what are we doing in this urban area," right? >> immediately. i was like, "this is so wrong." what happened is vehicles... it's a lot of sand. vehicles get caught, wheels turning, and it took a while to pull vehicles out of the sand. and the convoy keeps going, you know? they can stop for ten or 15 of us. and, you know, it keeps happening. we're actually, like, two days behind at this point. yeah. >>

i know. >> hinojosa: no, no. now they have burritos in mexico, because they want to... it's a strange thing that happens. >> spaghetti and meatballs, also not italian. it's this... it's interesting, right? because it's part of this phenomenon that i call indigenous chinese... oh, sorry, indigenous foreign cuisine, that we think of them as foreign or exotic or ethnic, but in fact they were developed in america. so the burritos, italian spaghetti and meatballs. so what happens is this book tries to make you think twice of, like, what it means to be american, right? that in fact you think of it... you may think of it as something foreign, when in fact people in china, you know, or maybe even in mexico, whatever, don't recognize this food when you show it to them. you know, fortune cookies, of course, is the canonical example, and hence why my book. >> hinojosa: speaking of fortune cookies, well, you did write a book called the fortune cookie chronicles, inspired by this story about fortune cookies and lotto ticket w

i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. mayor julian castro, welcome to our program. >> tnk y vermuch f having me. >> hinojosa: so your mom was a big time political activist in the 1960s and 1970s-- chicana activist. your brother is in state government in texas. you're the youngest mayor... or one of the youngest mayors in the country, san antonio, and people are saying, "this family has got a political future." so is that kind of the way you had it all planned out? >> oh, it's... well, that's the way that it's working right now, it seems, but not the way that we planned out. >> hinojosa: so you didn't even think, like, when you were a kid you were like, "i'm going to become a politician like my mom." >> no. you know what's interesting was that because my mother was so involved at that time in different mexican american issues and women's issues, she would drag us to political rallies, to meetings, and for somebody that's five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, those things are not the funnest thing to do in the world. and so w

>> hinojosa: "what is that?" >> it's easy when you're scripted, let me just get that out of the way. >> hinojosa: right. >> and the children are scripted too. >> hinojosa: right. >> okay? okay. >> hinojosa: but so many women also think of you as... as a woman of substance, as an actor and in the roles that you chose... that you choose... continue to choose. i was watching the amazing play that you did with sean p. diddy combs, a raisin in the sun. saw it on film and on television. you know, again, another lasting, important char... you've done so many across, you know, in terms of theatre. but was that always conscious? were you always thinking, "i want to portray strong, dignified, smart women"? >> no. i wanted to portray... i wanted to give a faithful portrayal of human beings, whoever they are, and i wanted the human beings to have been written with a respect for their humanity, whatever their circumstances are. and that's what i wanted, and that's what i want. i've portrayed some people who were not iconic mo

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> hinojosa: dolores huerta, you are an icon in the latino community, the cofounder of the united farm workers union. you have your own foundation now, the dolores huerta foundation. it's truly an honor to have you on our show. >> well, thank you, maria. it's an honor to be here. >> hinojosa: so a lot of people probably may not immediately know your name. but if you say united farm workers, if you say cesar chavez, if you say the grape boycott of the 1970s, then people kind of start piecing it together. but you are an extraordinary leader in your own right, dolores. and i kind of wonder, how do you put that into place, where on the one hand you were side by side this amazing leader, cesar chavez, and yet you were a leader onto yourself, but always a little bit behind the scenes. >> i think we did different tasks. i mean, i was pretty visible, actually. maybe not in the media, but-- excuse me-- i was in charge of negotiations, i r

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maria hinojosa will be with you next week. maria hinojosa will be with you next week. thanks for watching. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> rose: welcome to our program. tonight we look at important cultural institutions and their important exhi businesses. we start with islamic art at the metropolitan museum and sheila canby 1/2 ina haidar. >> i think the story is the story of the formation of islamic art up to the year 1900 in its diverse manifestations in different regions. its connections with the arts of other places such as china or europe. and it's a story that is not a political story. it's a story about art and about cultural history. >> you know, they have their own personality, they speak for themselves. they can't be force oed, necessarily, into one interpretation or another. and it's always better and in this case it is much better to be able to give this wide canvas where you can learn all about islam, the store eve islam, the unfolding islamic history and civilization over a wide region. >> rose: we continue by looking at cultural institutions fo