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FRIDAY, MAY 20,
2005
Chicano Studies Research Center Library,
Haines Hall 144 |
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2-4 p.m. |
Zoot
Suit Culture of the 1940s
Carlos Manuel Haro, Chicano Studies Research
Center Assistant Director:
Welcome and Introduction
Luis Alvarez,
University of Houston: “The Power of the Zoot: Identity
and Resistance in U.S. Youth Culture during World War II”
Catherine Ramirez, University of California,
Santa Cruz: “The Lady Zoot Suiter: The Pachuca and the
Rearticulation of Race, Class, Gender, and the Nation”
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| Fowler
Museum Lenart Auditorium, Room A103B |
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5:30-8:45 p.m. |
Screening
and Discussion of the Film Zoot Suit
The Sleepy Lagoon case was largely forgotten for thirty-five
years until Luis Valdez's play Zoot Suit opened in
1978. The play and subsequent film have generated much praise
and criticism since they first appeared. Following the screening,
there will be a discussion with with Kinan Valdez, Luis Valdez's
son, and Alice Greenfield McGrath |
| 5:30
p.m. |
Reception
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6 p.m. |
Gary E. Strong, University Librarian, and Carlos
Manuel Haro, Chicano
Studies Research Center Assistant Director: Welcome and Introduction:
Kinan Valdez: Remarks
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6:15 p.m. |
Screening
begins |
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8-8:45 p.m. |
Kinan
Valdez and Alice Greenfield McGrath: Remarks |
SATURDAY,
MAY 21, 2005
Fowler
Museum Lenart Auditorium, Room A103B
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9 a.m. |
Refreshments |
| 9:20
a.m. |
Carlos Manuel Haro, Chicano Studies Research Center Assistant
Director:
Welcome and Introduction |
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9:30 a.m. |
Alice Greenfield McGrath: Symposium Goals |
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9:40 a.m. |
Panel
1: The Sleepy Lagoon Case: Historical, Legal, and Community
Perspectives
Panelists will discuss the case, its importance to legal history,
the social environment leading up to the trial, and factors
and personalities in the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee and
the legal defense. Key questions include:
- What is the significance of the case?
- What were the important issues in the case and the appeal?
- What were the experiences of the Mexican community in
Los Angeles before and during World War II, including police-community
relations?
- How did the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee come into
being?
- Who were the key players in the case and on the Sleepy
Lagoon Defense Committee?
Moderator: Douglas Monroy
Frank Barajas, California State University,
Channel Islands
Edward J. Escobar, Arizona State University
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| 10:50 a.m. |
Break |
| 11 a.m. |
Panel
2: The Reality Remembered
Several key
supporters of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee (SLDC) will
be acknowledged and honored, among them, LaRue McCormick, Carey
McWilliams, Josefina Fierro, George Shibley, Ben Margolis, and
Lupe Leyvas. Anecdotes about the appellants in San Quentin,
the worldwide attention the case received, and the day-to-day
work of the SLDC will be recalled from personal experience and
from documents in the extensive collection in the Charles E.
Young Research Library Department of Special Collections.
Moderator: Carlos Manuel Haro, UCLA
Alice McGrath, Social Justice Activist, executive
secretary of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee,
Peter Richardson, American Prophet: The Life
and Work of Carey McWilliams
Jaime Gonzalez Monroy, union organizer, SLDC
supporter |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Panel
3: Constitutional Rights, Racism, and War: Contemporary Perspectives
Speakers
will focus on striking similarities between racial profiling
and the curtailment of constitutional rights during World War
II and in today’s “war on terror.” Topics will
include multi-racial organizing, racial
discrimination targeting immigrants in the United States, the USA PATRIOT Act and constitutional
rights, legal and political activism, and links between the
“war on terror” and the “war on gangs.”
Moderator: Sonia Mercado
Ralph Armbruster Sandoval, University of
California, Santa Barbara
Thomas A. Saenz, vice president of litigation,
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Steven Arvizu, retired college president,
citizen activist
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| 3:10 p.m. |
Break |
| 3:20 p.m. |
Roundtable
Discussion: The Sleepy Lagoon Case: Dialogues and Debates in
Chicana/o Studies
Panelists
will address questions associated not only with the Sleepy Lagoon
case but also regarding scholarly debates raised by recent and
older writings and the incorporation of the case and the Zoot
Suit era in Chicana/o studies.
Moderator: Mary Pardo, California State University,
Northridge
Deena J. Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University
Juan Gomez-Quinones, UCLA
Catherine Ramirez, University of California,
Santa Cruz
Luis Alvarez, University of Houston
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| 5 p.m. |
Exhibit
Viewing and Closing Remarks
An
exhibit drawn from UCLA Library collections will highlight special
collections and other resources on the Sleepy Lagoon case.
Genie
Guerard, Manuscripts Librarian, Charles E. Young
Research Library Department of Special Collections
Yolanda Retter-Vargas, Librarian, Chicano
Studies Research Center
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| 5:30 p.m. |
Closing
Remarks
Victoria
Steele, Head, Charles E. Young Research Library Department
of Special Collections
Carlos Manuel Haro, Assistant Director , Chicano
Studies Research Center
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| Fowler
Museum |
| 6 p.m. |
Reception
and Final Conversation |
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