History in Our Everyday Lives

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.03.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale, My School
  3. Content
  4. Objectives
  5. Essential Questions of Public History
  6. Introduction
  7. Silicon Valley’s Otro Lado
  8. History
  9. Relevance
  10. Strategies
  11. Planning
  12. Activities
  13. Note
  14. Appendix
  15. Sources on Teaching Film Production
  16. Standards
  17. Works Cited

Silicon Valley’s Otro Lado, Youth Voices Speak About Their Community in Film

William Cavada

Published September 2015

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  1. This is how John Erickson writes of the photography exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art titled “Mirrors and Windows”, which I find appropriate for how students’ engagement with film will function. Erickson, John. "Mirrors and Windows, American Photography since 1960." MOMA 56 (26 July1978): 1. https://moma.org/momaorg/shared/ pdfs/docs/press_archives/5624/ releases/MOMA_1978_0060_56.pdf?2010. Museum of Modern Art. Web. 2 July 2015.
  2. On television, shows such as MSNBC in Changing American and KQED show “Newsroom” coverage of the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley as well as M. Swift, Mike. "Blacks, Latinos and Women Lose Ground at Silicon Valley Tech" Mercury News. San José Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2010. Web. 2 July 2015. highlight the lack of cultural understating, lack of opportunity to Latinos in the educational system and the systemic need for change in the tech culture.
  3. Valley, "Silicon Valley Latino Report Card 2011." L Atino R Eport C Ard (n.d.): n. pag.Silicon Valley Latino Report Card 2011. Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley, Mar. 2011. Web. 3 July 2015.
  4. Navickas, Katrina. "History Working Papers Project." History Working Papers Project RSS. Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2015. Web. 25 July
  5. Navickas, Katrina. "History Working Papers Project." History Working Papers Project RSS. Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2015. Web. 25 July
  6. "United States Census Bureau." Santa Clara County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July
  7. Regua, Nannette, and Arturo Villarreal. Mexicans in San José. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub.,2009.
  8. Chapter 1 “School Profile, “Mt. Pleasant High School, Western Association of Schools andColleges report 2013-2014.
  9. Valley, Silicon. "Silicon Valley Latino Report Card 2011." L Atino R Eport C Ard (n.d.): n. pag.Silicon Valley Latino Report Card 2011. Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley,Mar.2011. Web. 3 July
  10. Ibid
  11. Johnson, Doug. "Libraries for a Postliterate Society." Internet @ Schools. N.p., 01 July 2009.  Web. 25 July
  12. Valdes, Alisa. "Dear Mike Judge, I Love You But…." The Hollywood Latina. Alisa Valdes, 7July 2015.
  13. Pitti, Stephen J. "The Devil Defined." Preface. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2003. 1-7.
  14. Hayden, Dolores. "Preface." Preface. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1995. Xi-Xvii.
  15. Adair, Bill, Benjamin Filene, and Laura Koloski. Letting Go?: Sharing Historical Authority in a User-generated World. Philadelphia, PA: Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, 2011. 136.
  16. Le Beau, Bryan F. "Historiography Meets Historiophoty:The Perils and Promise of Rendering the Past on Film." American Studies Spring 38.1 (1997): 152-55. Web. 1 July 2014.
  17. Ibid .
  18. Rosenstone, Robert A. "History in Images, History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film." Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995. 19-44.
  19. Lucy Lippard, “Mix Blessings”
  20. Mittell, Jason. Television and American Culture. New York, NY: Oxford UP, Print.
  21. Ibid .
  22. Poizner, Steve. Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School. New York: Portfolio, 2010.
  23. Rothfeld, Michael. "Steve Poizner's Book about Mount Pleasant High School Offends Subjects." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 03 Apr. 2010. Web. 30 July 2015
  24. Gordon, Alan. Introduction. Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montréal's Public Memories, 1891-1930. Montréal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2001. N. pag.
  25. Cutler, Kim-Mai. "East of Palo Alto’s Eden: Race and The Formation of Silicon " TC. TechCrunch, 10 Jan. 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.
  26. Pitti, Stephen J. "Devil's Destiny." The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2003. 8-29.
  27. Pitti, Stephen J. "The Golden State." The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2003. 30-50.
  28. Ibid .
  29. "Santa Clara County." Bay Area Census. MTC-ABAG Library, n.d. Web. 1 July
  30. Pitti, Stephen J. "The Golden State." The Devil in Silicon Valley: Fruit of Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2003. 30-50. Print. p.90
  31. Levy, Jacques E., and Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La New York: Norton, 1975. Print. p50
  32. 32 Pitti, Stephen J. "The Golden State." The Devil in Silicon Valley: Residence in Revolution Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2003. 30-50. p90
  33. Cutler, Kim-Mai. "East of Palo Alto’s Eden: Race and The Formation of Silicon " TC. TechCrunch, 10 Jan. 2015. Web. 25 July 2015.
  34. McDonald, Don. Early Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, Print.
  35. "Our Platform." Palo Alto Forward. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July
  36. Pitti, Stephen J. "The Golden State." The Devil in Silicon Valley: Residence in Revolution.Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2003. 30-50. p91
  37. "United States Census Bureau." Santa Clara County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau.N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July
  38. "United States Census Bureau." Los Altos (city) QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau.N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July
  39. Pitti, Stephen J. "The Golden State." The Devil in Silicon Valley: Silicon Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2003. 30-50. Print. p192-193
  40. "CSO Project." CSO Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July
  41. Pawel, Miriam. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography. N.p.: n.p., n.d.
  42. Regua, Nannette, and Arturo Villarreal. Mexicans in San José. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 2009. Print. 61-89
  43. Ibid .
  44. Pitti, Stephen J. "The Golden State." The Devil in Silicon Valley: Silicon Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2003. 30-50. Print. p178
  45. "Google Finally Discloses Its Diversity Record, and It’s Not Good." PBS. PBS, d. Web. 09 Aug. 2015.
  46. Gilliam, Fatimah. "Homogeniuses: HBO’s “Silicon Valley” Mirrors Tech Industry’s Diversity Realities." The Azara Group. The Azara Group, 20 Apr. 2015. Web. 2 July 2015.
  47. Regua, Nannette, and Arturo Villarreal. Mexicans in San José. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 2009. Print. 61-89
  48. Regua, Nannette, and Arturo Villarreal. Mexicans in San José. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 2009. Print. 61-89
  49. Poyntz, Stuart R. "“On Behalf of a Shared World”: Arendtian Politics in a Culture of Youth Media Participation." Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 4 (2009): 365-86. Web.
  50. Adobe Youth Voices is an organization that has developed various youth media
  51. Material for "Stepping into the Past with Historical Walking Tours." ActiveHistoryca. N.p., 21 Oct. 2013. Web. 29 July 2015.
  52. The Last Black Man, as film produced by Longshot Features. com/97971791 or longshotfeatures.com/last-black-man/

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