Chicano/a Research Collection
This collection highlights photographs from the Chicano/a Research Collection. Collections are added as permissions are secured, and resources for digitization become available.
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- Creators: Southwest Council of La Raza
- Creators: Quesada, Dora Ocampo, 1921-1998
- Creators: Ortega, Felix Beraldo Benjamin, 1930-2016
In this interview, Dora Quesada discusses her family's history in Arizona and work in cattle ranching, mining, and freighting; her education; learning English and her family's use of Spanish and English; religion; her career as a military nurse, civilian nurse, and public school teacher; racism in the medical and educational fields; her political activity and work to oppose the Gosnell land swap; and her interest in and work to preserve Arizona's Mexican-American history.
In this recording, Dora Quesada discusses her work to oppose the Gosnell land swap, her parents' teaching that political activism is a necessity, her early political activity, the Latin American Club of Arizona, and her interest in and efforts to preserve Arizona's Mexican-American history.
This unit discusses Mexico's geography, the history of early human settlement in Central America, and such early civilizations as the Olmec, Toltec, and Aztec.
This unit discusses Tenochtitlan and life in Aztec society, including class structure, family, religion, and daily living.
This unit discusses the Spanish conquest of Mexico, explores explanations for Spanish victory, and considers the conquest's effects on Indigenous populations.
This unit discusses immigration from Mexico to the United States, farm labor (including the role of immigrants), movement of farm workers within the United States, and braceros.
This unit discusses land grants, the history of political activity and reasons for inactivity, early efforts to form fraternal organizations, and the increase in political activity following World War II.