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. >> next, luis alvarez teaches a class on the 1943 zeus susan rice. -- zoo suit rights. riots.ting -- this class is about one hour and 20 minutes. you of ouremind ongoing narrative on mexican history. last week we kept about 1910 and the mexican revolution and the dramatic changes that this made it for the northern side of the border. this week we are going to begin classsion of our third point in the course which is 1933. really at the stand in for world war ii. if you recall, at the end of last week we had been discussing those million plus mexican migrants who moved north of the border into the united states. many of them, under its of thousands of them, a t

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eastern on lectures in history, university of california san diego professor luis alvarez on the 1943 los angeles zut suit riots and how they challenged racial identities. >> mexican american zut suitors in particular were viewed as public enemy. if not number one. 1-b right behind japanese americans. they were seen as unamerican. >> sunday at 6:00 p.m. on american artifacts. saving slavehouses project explores the green hill plantation. >> this site, green hill plantation, has the original slave owner here was very active in the slave trade. so one of the things he decided to put in his yard is a slave auction block, an auctioneer stand. >> you can definitely feel the power of this place and think that auction block standing where it is right now is a huge part of why the site is so powerful. i mean, this would have been, really, the last place men, women, children would have been with their families. after this place, they would have been scattered all across the united states. so this is really kind of ground zero for that experience here. >>> at 8:00, an interview with historian w

. > lectures in history, university of california san diego professor louise alvarez that luis alvarez who teaches a class about the 1943 zoot suit riots in los angeles. he describes race relations in the world war ii era and how those who wore the issues came to symbolize a challenge to gender and racial identities. his class is about an hour and 20 minutes. symbol i symbolize a challenge to racial identities. this is about an hour and a half. >> all right. so let me just remind you where we are in our ongoing narrative of mexican/american history. last week we talked a lot about 1910 and the mexican revolution and the dramatic changes that this made for the mexican-origin folk on the northern side of the border. this week we are going to begin discussion of our third flash point in the course, which is 1943, really as a stand-in for world war ii. if you recall, at the end of last week we had been discussing those million-plus mexican migrants who moved north of the border into the united states, many of them -- hundreds of thousands of them and their children settling in the south we

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