they got rid of mexican-american studies. they put all of the books that they took away from students. they boxed them and put them away. the catch-22 seems to be that anybody who's not from that ethnic studies world could teach it. but that there would be disciplinary action, as i understand it, if anyone complains about those being taught. so in essence, they've been what i call a soft banning. they're out of the picture. and -- >> but just look at the books. i brought a list of the titles. chicano, the history of the mexican civil rights movement, boxed. critical theory by delgado and stepanic, boxed. 500 year history of pictures, boxed. occupied america, boxed. rethinking columbus, the next 500 years, boxed. the oppressed, boxed. and then howard zenness, the people's history of the united states? >> he's a lefty. >> sandros cisneros, zapata's disciple, feminism is for everybody, jonathan kozel's savage inequalities, luis rodriguez is always running, by the lake of sleeping children and nobody's son. you have to help me un

. >> it's a combined art attributes of 10 artist of mexican and mexican american descent. >> recently been a lot of exhibition features either mexican artist or mexican- american artist but this is the first to feature both. it shows the cross dialogue that's happening. >> well-known artist presents art pieces in this exhibit at the san jose exhibit of art includes gonzalez who's work has been shown internationally. >> a lot of to work put a contemporary spin on traditional, cultural object or craft that people may be familiar with. a remade version of the traditional mexican card game and sales receipt from wal-mart and said that the combination of art shows that diversity of mexican culture. it shows you a wide variety of the way people live and what they go through. >> visitors have left the exhibit with admiration and messages they believe the artist try to deliver. i enjoyed the rear view mirror exhibit. i thought that captured something about crossing the border. >> it's empowering to see that what our people are able to do and produce and show the world. >> this art exhibit wil

this is actually benefitting my racial background which is mexican american. mexican americans are called upon to join the military and support the united states in the great war effort. so this is all part of the story, but the darker side of the story is over here. and that is the loyalty question of japanese americans during the war. a goods friend of miep was a principal and this was the quote, you are not an american citizen. you are a jap. that word i cannot forget during my lifetime not a citizen, although you were born in hawaii, you're a jap. and so it was a very difficult period in the united states history. these young men you see here were volunteers from hawaii that joined the four-four-two. somewhere athere is senator daniel noaw. he lost his arm in the war. we had an internment camp. on the west coast there were great camps of japanese american citizens taken from their homes and placed in camps in california. this is a difficult part of this history for a lot of people and for particular japanese americans that hi here in hawaii. they have thes

now why would you say that governor romney is unpopular with mexican americans?lf deportation, lack of -- there is a new ad out today by a super pac that deals with the latino issues attacking romney. it was very effective. with people that if you are in the it will tino community they are your villains. >> i think the republican's party's brand is really bad among latinos because of the immigration issue. look at mccain who is a moderate on immigration among republicans, and he did very poorly among latinos in 2008 because the republican parties image among latinos was one of intolerance. >> and you mentioned self deportation. it's ironic the government uses that phase considering what his grandfather did. he self deported all the way to mexico. >> yes. >> barack obama has increased deportations. barack obama has sent national guard troops to the border. he has been much tougher on undocumented immigrants than any other president in the past. >> i any there's one thing in that same poll which is a potential sign of concern for obama which is that latinos are les

but if you think, i used to stress this point, concerns about mexican-americans. there's an assumption that they really be lied to the category of mexican-americans with a legal immigrant, they are not well distinguish categories. and there was a very deep concern about sharia law, sort of, some sort of an islamic takeover of the united states is a very popular idea in tea party circles but those are the most visceral fears i recall hearing. >> my name is brad. i'm in the sociology department at my interest is in the religious compositions of the tea party movement and the role religion plays. you made a distinction between social conservatives and fiscal conservatives, implying that those more social conservatives in the mix. yet one of the that the priorities, they seem to be primarily fiscal, fiscally conservative priorities. so basically the religious composition and the role of religion is playing in the tea party movement. >> that was a question that really we were interested in, and we were interested in it partly because the academic literature that we wer

and this is actually benefiting my racial background, which is mexican-american, in which mexican-americansre called upon to join the military and support the united states in the great war effort. so this is part of the story. the darker part of the story is over here. and that is the loyalty question of japanese americans during the war. and, of course, this is a good friend of mine who was a principal, and the story was told to me and this was the quote. you are not an american citizen. you are a jap. that word i cannot forget. during my lifetime, you know. you're not a citizen, although you were born in hawaii, you're a jap. and so, it was a very difficult period in the united states history, and these young men you see here were volunteers from hawaii that joined the 442, and among that group is somewhere senator daniel inouye, a young man that will lose his arm in the war fighting in europe. but also, we also had one internment camp at honouliuli. and so on the west coast there were great camps of japanese-american citizens that were taken from their homes and placed into camps like t

cinco de mile is not a big holiday in mexico is more popular among mexican americans. federal program providing meals to students is expanding. the pittsburgh school district wants day dinner program. they serve free meals to more than 1000 students across 20 schools. the usda reimburses school districts about $3 for every meal. san jose plans to launch the program next year. nothing like it again this year so look up in the night sky, because of a super moon. it is the biggest moon of the year. tonight could be 14% bigger and brighter than a full moon, it will be visible at 8:00 p.m. the super mooned at its fullest at 8:30 p.m. brian hackney joins us. >>> if you're going to look at the full moon do this and observe carefully above and to the right of the moon you see a bright yellow light and that light comes from the planet saturn. if you have a telescope he or she will never forget the first time they see saturn. think of the moon is up there to provide a milestone to point out where saturn is. both are appearing tonight a star is up there to 260 million light years

focusing efforts downtown, also on the east side near philly and king, which is the heart of the mexican-american community in san jose. >>> this morning, some north bay teenagers are very lucky to have survived a major crash, though chp says none of them was wearing a seat belt. the teens were all in a truck that the driver crashed yesterday. three of them were taken to the hospital with major injuries. two were treated for minor injuries. the highway patrol is trying to figure tout cause of that crash and why the teens weren't belted in in the first place. >>> in san francisco, police are looking for a hit-and-run driver this morning. police say the driver of a mustang ran a red light, causing a cab to crash into a building. this happened on thursday night at mission and 19th. the mustang's driver apparently ran from the scene, leaving behind his car, in which police say they found bottles of alcohol on the floor. >>> police in the south bay are looking for some help this morning in their search for the gunman who unloaded on a group of people in front of a home. the shooting happened around 9:

. >> one mexican-american community move towards free will she came along and she had a lot to do withng good and my family are all nice to me. >> she also says that she loves dancing, music, and her favorite food is enchiladas. >> maybe that is the key. >> can you imagine everything she has seen? the top baby names are in. >> sophia took the top spot for the ladies and isabella had been the most popular name for two years but dropped to no. 2. michelle miss the top 100 at 144. >> thanks for pointing that out. for boys, jacob was number one, mason jumped from no. 12 to #two courtesy of courtney kardashians choosing that name. william was no. 3 and fink was 308 and warrants was the number #454. >> how many francs do know? lawrence is way out there. >> that just tells you something about my parents. around the bay area today we do have low clouds and fog that are stretched on shore. things will actually warm-up just a bit out there as temperatures are expected to soar back into the upper 70's and low 80's in some spots. low clouds and fog will likely to linger towards the beach is if you

cinco de mayo is an important holiday in mexico it is more popular among mexican-americans. he is officially in the race to keep his job. president obama k. doff his reelection campaign which speeches into swing states. he hit the ground in ohio and virginia and wasted no time attacking mitt romney. >>> good to be back in ohio. >>> the president set up this year's election as a make or break moment. he charged mitt romney would return to the policies that lead to economic downturn. >>> we have to move forward, to the future we imagined in 2008, where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules. that is the choice in this election. that is why i am running for a second term as president of united states. >>> and a sign of the new sharper focus of the reelection campaign obama repeatedly hammered his republican rival. >>> i don't care how you try to explain that corporations are not people >>> the president acknowledged is not satisfied with the economy, he wants the wealthiest americans to pay more taxes a clear contrast t

. >>> and the mexican-american community moved she came along and that is have a spanish committee counsel and the others got started and she had a lot to do with that. i like to do things something. something dead. in my family they're all nice to me. >>> season something right. she also says she loves dancing marriott see music and your favorite food is enchiladas. >>> guess what category the a's lead the major leagues in? russell rest work is brilliant but the minute is next. >>> who the dodgers placemat camp on the 13 day disabled list ending his streak of consecutive game plan to 399 it also means the giants could make up some ground in the nl west's start the clock. 11 game in the twin buster posey put the giants ahead it was 31 the ninth in the giants had just held off and won the game three to two over the rockies. is angel jobs reckon his ninth homer of the season and ties and ross did six scoreless innings to lead the a's 25 nothing when in anaheim days lead the majors and a shutout with 5. nba playoffs and world peace in oklahoma city russell was broken debit seven grant combine

it applies to chinese on the west coast and mexican american who is might come in and have a child in the united states. the catalyst is the ending of slavery and the issues that puts on the agenda, but the principal is that is not just limited to black people. >> before the 14th amendment, who was considered a citizen? >> that are carried. there was no national standard. massachusetts insisted that people people were citizens of massachusetts, but other states denied that and the supreme court made that a national principal. it depended on the states who was a citizen and what rights they had and one of the purposes is to create this national standard so that you couldn't have all these variations. >> obviously citizenship doesn't mean the right to vote, did it? >> not necessarily and that's why there is a 15th amendment that said no state may deprive a person of the right to vote on the basis of race or national origin or religion. there was a struggle and an effort to put sex into the 15th amendment that said no person has the -- no state may deny the right to vote on the basis of

don't forget about the mexican-american school kids. his fight was not african-americans. it was about the hispanic kids that he knew, but more over, it was an attack on poverty. he didn't want to see people poor. and disenfranchised in this country. he felt that deeply. i can talk about one, there are two stories that show how the civil rights act of 1964 came about. the civil rights act of 1964 ended the jim crow the appar tide in the country. the first is with richard russell. richard was a democratic senator from georgia who was a friend and mentor to lbj. he realized in order to get the civil rights act of 1964 passed, he has to run over richard russell. he invites him to the oval office. they had the intense conversation. and russell says, you know, you have the legislative muster to get the civil right the act. i don't think jack kennedy had it. you do. i will warn you, if you do it, you'll lose the southern states to the republican party. and you may way lose the election of 1964. and johnson, the great creature of power, hears this and quietly replies, if that's t

hispanics and that is not a monolithic vote, cuban-americans, tend to be more conservative than mexican-americansn the southwest. i think even more than any of that, he's just a bright rising star, who has -- is a very effective communicator and, you know, to make the case, that is what the romney camp will have to make, said obama and the obama administration, have had their chance, they've had three-and-a-half years, and, they haven't gotten the job done, that is the romney argument and he make it a very effective one. >> eric: we'll have to see how he does surviving the questioning. sounds fascinating. chris, thanks so much, always good to see you. >> you bet, thank you, eric. >> eric: and for more of his interview with senator marco rubio, you can watch it as chris said on your local fox station or on the fox news channel, later on today at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., eastern time, should be really fascinating. >> jamie: and you know what is minutes away, eric? "sunday house call"! today, those energy drinks, a lot of you may think they help you not only at work but when you are trying to work o

. >> nrt heart of the mexican american community on the east side, it was a festive mood with many passing cars displaying flags and colors. >> we welcome everyone to celebrate and there is no reason for individuals to fear. >> shawn will not be taking any chances, he and other neighboring businesses will be staying overtime to guard their stores. >> i plan on being here an hour or two to see if they will be rough. i will keep an eye on my business. >> you are looking at live video. pictures from up above again. no cinco de mayo-related arrests so far. we will give you an update. live here in downtown san jose, nbc bay area news. >> hope it stays quiet. police need your help looking for the gunman who unloaded on a home in milpitas. it happened off of piedmont road. several shots fire and no one hit. two parked cars were damaged. at least four people were involved. if you have information, they want to hear from you. no cause behind the raging fire in san jose that occurred thursday. flame destroying a house on topaz avenue and it also charred the home next door. everyone got out okay, but

the city was in a political conflict with its mexican-american leadership ruling by the supreme court to go from citywide elections to city elections that were to occur three weeks after the earthquake with the hope of its electing their first latino councilmember in years. neither the county nor city had a strong relationship with the spanish-community organization and after the hospital and the foundation was damaged, our county health department headquarters was about 14 miles away and we quickly knew that we were on our own. and our clinic staff right after the earthquake continued to provide medical services right across the street at a plaza right in the park. and a fire captain coming by saw what we were doing and provided me with a radio. thank you, chief. that i used to -- i did a little bit of radio work when i was a ranger and i heard what they were asking for so i took this radio from the police -- from the fire department and listened all night to hear that they were asking for things so i thought wow. this would be great. so i asked for a generator and a large stadium li

we see his compassion for the mexican-american kids when he was a school teacher. he taught mexican-american children down in catulla, and i think i say in that book that no teacher had ever cared if they learned or not. this teacher cared. you know, he worked with them ceaselessly beyond anything that was expected of him. of course, we're going to see that in the civil rights legislation, when he is majority leader and president. and we see in him helping his constituents, such as with rural electrification, this great gift that lyndon johnson had for mobilizing the powers of government, to help the dispossessed, but in this, i forget what you were asking. c-span: i wanted to know if the people at the library started treating you differently... >> guest: well, the library, you know, reminds me very much of the situation of reporters during the vietnam war. the people that i work with at the library are the archivists, they're historians, professional historians, who i think chose mostly to go into archival work instead of teaching at universities, and they're very

it applies to chinese immigrants on the west coast, it applies to mexican americans who might come into the united states and have a child in the united states. so, yes, the catalyst is the ending of slavery, but the principle is not just limited to black people. >> before the 14th amendment, who was considered a citizen? >> that varied from state to state. there was no national standard. for example, massachusetts always insisted black people ins massachusetts were citizens of massachusetts and other states denied that and then the supreme court made that a national principal. but it really depended on the states, who was a citizen and what rights it they had and one of the purposes of the 14th amendment is to create this national standard so that you wouldn't have all these variations within the country. >> and obviously citizenship didn't mean the right to vote, did it, professor gerber. >> not necessarily. and that's why there is 15th amendment that says no state may deprive a person of the right to vote on the basis of race or fashion or physical begin or religion. there was a stru

the picture of rudy martinez probably the first mexican american killed in world war ii. he was a young sailor from san diego, california, who is still entombed in the ship. he didn't survive. harry pang was a young firefighter and a hoseman for the honolulu fire department and he was killed by japanese aircraft when he was trying to put out the fires at the hangars. there were three firemen killed during the raid and harry pang was one of those. when we think of the firemen of new york, i often think of the firemen of honolulu. our last exhibit leads us into the greater pacific war theme. and when you think about this, probably the next thing we need to look at is how do we broaden our story about world war ii in the pacific or valor of the pacific national monument? in doing so, we have these high points and low points of that war and the ventral end of the battleship missouri. here we have a world war ii submarine, the bow fin that is a private nonprofit right next door to us and then along the eastern edge of fort island the uss missouri sits within 1,000 yards of the

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

white children in class so the school board built a separate school and then turned away the mexican american students from their original school and directed them to their new school which was basically a big barn a house within the local community it became known as. your reason reason to believe they were the stable. but rather it was socially referred to as a barn they were going to redo it was going to be a single room and two teachers were going to educate seventy children so they were quite shocked and very unhappy because. but rather than just accepting the new segregated school the parents protested they sought help from the mexican consul in san diego eventually got legal representation and won a court case against the lemon grove school board putting an end to the barnyard education plans this happened more than eighty years ago and today history is repeating so. thanks to the radical anti immigration law recently passed in alabama hispanics. and are afraid to go to school that's because the wall requires alabama school officials to check the immigrations that is of kids in the pub

she is an american citizen, but she is mexican-american. arizona had just passed its 1070 immigration bill. she was very worried about whether she was going to be persecuted against. and in fact, even though she was an american citizen, her life had changed in these pretty dramatic ways. people -- other hispanics were leaving her hometown. the school populations had dropped. and, you know, her hometown that she loved was feeling less and less like home. and she wrote to the president, basically asking should i stay here or should i go? saying i'm an american, and i want to be treated like an american. but i'm now considering going back to mexico, where i haven't been since i was four years old, and what should i do. and oftentimes i think that's the burden for a president reading ten of these every day. i had the privilege of reading ten every day for a year. and these are not happy-go-lucky letters. sometimes they are. sometimes there is an occasional funny letter, a positive hang in there note. but a lot of times it's people writing about

and mexico different sorts of background. >> latino population is diverse, but overwhelmingly mexican americanmingly. asians enormously diverse. >> including linguistically. >> they have different language, different religions. the idea of being asian doesn't exist except for the united states. they come as filipinos, and japanese and in the united states they say, hey, i'm asian, i never knew that. >> it feels like in the west some of sort of the asian american political power is finally being demonstrated. i found the san francisco mayor's race. six asian americans running, including jeff adoci, who is my sister's boss in the san francisco public defender's office. this notion that there was a real power play by mayoral candidates, maybe the west is beginning do this work? >> it's only a matter of time, stands to reason given the size of the population in california. hawaii and california, the two states with the largest asian american populations as diverse as it is across the country. nevertheless, california's population is almost three times the size of the african-american population. s

this weekend, cinco de mayo on a saturday and of course a huge celebration here with a large mexican-americanlation. warm weather, full moon, add it up, they are going to put more police on the streets this weekend. take a look at what they are trying to avoid. these are pictures from a cinco de mayo 2006. 56 people arrested near story and king, that was a friday night singh . there were allegations that followed of police -- of police being too aggressive. two years later 2008, more problems with cinco de mayo. and the cinco de mayo parade and festival cancelled by the city of san jose in 2010. here we are members of the task force talking about something brewing s.zz]é pd hoping to calm things down -- there's evidence what they are trying to do isn't working. look at a symbol of gang violence, 14-year-old heriberto reyes, 8th grader beat anyone a gang attack downtown san jose last friday evening. he -- he died this past monday. the fifth fatality the result of gangs this year, 13 homicides in san jose, five the result of gang violence. a number of things coming to a point this weekend. add

population in all those states, if people say rubio is a cuban american they are more conservative mexican americans more liberal you cannot under estimate the significance of having the first hispanic american on a national political ticket that would be a big deal in addition, we will see we will put him through his paces top of the hour but he is an attractive, change candidate, forward looking candidate and he is charisma nick a way perhaps mitt romney isn't. >>> and chris, i have to run but quickly want to have you talk to us about your power player interesting newer part with alex trebek. >> we taped an interview the day before i appeared on the show he did a week of celebrity jeopardy here in dc runs mid- may we will take you behind the scenes you will get to meet him and see me make a fool of myself in the process. >>> i give you major props for daring to go on the show i am a huge fan but would be so afraid. >> let me tell you, it was -- there are moments -- it was like an emotional roller coaster going on that show. >> chris thanks so much. >> you bet. >>> so i don't know gwen would you ev

. >> when the mexican american community moved into the farmville area, she came along. and that is when spanish- speaking councils got started issue had a lot to do with the effort. >> i am busy all the time doing something, something good. and my family. they're all nice to me. >> she also says that she loved dancing. mariachi music, and her favorite food? the enchiladas. >> could for her. it is on an extremely tight timeline. costing billions of dollars. just how much money construction of high-speed rail would cost per day? >> i am in lafayette where they're trying to close down massage parlors. why they say they're risky business. >> and the guy who ceo officially out. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly what you're choosing... and in schools, replacing full-calorie soft drinks with lower-calorie options. with more choices and fewer