U.S. Social Movements through Biography

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 21.01.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background Information
  3. Unit Content
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Resources for Teachers and Students
  7. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  8. Bibliography

Latinx Biographies and Social Activism: An Untold Latinx History

Cristina Mejia

Published September 2021

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Bibliography

Betancur Alvarez, Fabio. Sin clave y bongó no hay son. Medellín, Colombia: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 1993.

Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans in California. San Francisco: Boyd and Fraser, 1984.

Cruz, Celia. Interview in Smithsonian Institution Jazz Oral History Program, September25–26, 1996, Hollywood, Calif.

Díaz Ayala, Cristóbal. Música Cubana del areyto a la nueva trova. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Cubanacán, 1981.

Feldman, Jay. “Roberto Clemente Went to Bat for All Latino Ballplayers.” Smithsonian 24, no. 6 (September 1993): 128–42. https://search-ebscohost-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9309090050&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Felner, Julie. “For a Life Time of Labor Championing the Rights of Farmworkers.”Ms., January/February 1998.

Fernández, Raul. “Celia Cruz: Artista de América Latina.” Deslinde21 (Bogotá, Colombia), July–September 1997.

Ferriss, Susan, and Ricardo Sandoval. The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers' Movement. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997.

Furcola, Marilyn. "Pumpsie & Progress: The Red Sox, Race and Redemption." Black Ball 4, no. 2 (Fall, 2011): 79-80. https://www-proquest-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/scholarly-journals/pumpsie-progress-red-sox-race-redemption/docview/1024689985/se-2?accountid=15172.

Fusco, Paul, and George D. Horowitz. La Causa: The California Grape Strike. New York: Collier, 1970.

Griswold del Castillo, Richard, and Richard A. Garcia. “Co-Leadership: The Strength of Dolores Huerta.” In César Chávez: A Triumph of Spirit, by Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia, 59–75. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Huerta, Dolores. “Dolores Huerta Talks about Republicans, César, Children, and Her Home Town.” In The Mexican Americans: An Awakening Minority, edited by Manuel P. Servín, 283–294. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Glencoe Press, 1974.

“Jorge Ramos 1958-.” Biography Today (Omnigraphics, Inc.) 15, no. 2 (April 2006): 114–27. https://search-ebscohost-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=20977697&site=ehost-live.

Lee, Joon. “'This Is OUR F--KING City': The Oral History.” Bleacher Report. Bleacher Report, April 19, 2018. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2768345-the-oral-history-of-this-is-our-f-king-city.

Lerner, Berenice. “Why Teach Biography?” Education Week 24, no. 27 (March 16, 2005): 37.

Maraniss, David. “The Meaning of ROBERTO CLEMENTE.” Sports Illustrated 104, no. 15 (April 10, 2006): 56–67. https://search-ebscohost-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=20380424&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Meister, Dick, and Anne Loftis. A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers. New York: Macmillan, 1977.

Mullens, Patricia A. 2001. “Using Outside Speaker in the Classroom.” APS Observer. 2001. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/teaching/tips/tips_1001.html.

Nathan, Daniel A. “Sports History and Roberto Clemente: A Morality Tale and a Way Forward.” Journal of American History 101, no. 1 (June 2014): 184–87. doi:10.1093/jahist/jau277.

Ortiz, David, and Michael Holley. Papi: My Story. Boston: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Ortiz, David, and Tony Massarotti. Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008.

P.B.M., Don. “Ramos, Jorge.” Current Biography 65, no. 3 (March 2004): 69–74. https://search-ebscohost-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=12584809&site=ehost-live.

Rose, Margaret. “Traditional and Nontraditional Patterns of Female Activism in the United Farm Workers of America, 1962 to 1980.Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies11, no. 1 (1990): 26–32.

Taylor, Ronald. Chavez and the Farm Workers. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.

Valverde, Umberto. Celia Cruz: Reina rumba. Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial La Oveja Negra, 1981.

Wagenheim, Kal. Clemente! Chicago: Olmstead Press, 1973.

Weir, Robert E. "Constructing Legends: Pumpsie Green, Race, and the Boston Red Sox." Historical Journal of Massachusetts 42, no. 2 (2014): 48+. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed August 16, 2021). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A514101817/UHIC?u=29002&sid=summon&xid=860cecf0.

Wolf, Ken. “Teaching History the Old-Fashioned Way- Through Biography.” Perspectives on History, May 1994.

Wulf, Steve. “Arriba Roberto.Sports Illustrated 77, issue 27, December 28, 1992, 114–128.

1 Lerner, Berenice. “Why Teach Biography?”

2 Lerner, Berenice. “Why Teach Biography?”

3 Wolf, Ken. “Teaching History the Old-Fashioned Way- Through Biography.”

4 Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans in California.

5 Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans in California.

6 Ferriss, Susan, and Ricardo Sandoval. The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers' Movement.

7 Meister, Dick, and Anne Loftis. A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers.

8 Fusco, Paul, and George D. Horowitz. La Causa: The California Grape Strike.

9 Ferriss, Susan, and Ricardo Sandoval. The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers' Movement.

10 Taylor, Ronald. Chavez and the Farm Workers

11 Taylor, Ronald. Chavez and the Farm Workers

12 Ferriss, Susan, and Ricardo Sandoval. The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers' Movement.

13 Taylor, Ronald. Chavez and the Farm Workers

14 Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans in California.

15 Huerta, Dolores. “Dolores Huerta Talks about Republicans, César, Children, and Her Home Town.” In The Mexican Americans: An Awakening Minority

16 Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans in California.

17 Huerta, Dolores. “Dolores Huerta Talks about Republicans, César, Children, and Her Home Town.” In The Mexican Americans: An Awakening Minority

18 Felner, Julie. “For a Life Time of Labor Championing the Rights of Farmworkers.

19 Griswold del Castillo, Richard, and Richard A. Garcia. “Co-Leadership: The Strength of Dolores Huerta.” In César Chávez: A Triumph of Spirit

20 Huerta, Dolores. “Dolores Huerta Talks about Republicans, César, Children, and Her Home Town.” In The Mexican Americans: An Awakening Minority

21 Rose, Margaret. “Traditional and Nontraditional Patterns of Female Activism in the United Farm Workers of America, 1962 to 1980.Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies

22 Felner, Julie. “For a Life Time of Labor Championing the Rights of Farmworkers.

23 Rose, Margaret. “Traditional and Nontraditional Patterns of Female Activism in the United Farm Workers of America, 1962 to 1980.Frontiers: Journal of Women's Studies

24 Valverde, Umberto. Celia Cruz: Reina rumba.

25 Fernández, Raul. “Celia Cruz: Artista de América Latina.”

26 Betancur Alvarez, Fabio. Sin clave y bongó no hay son.

27 Cruz, Celia. Interview in Smithsonian Institution Jazz Oral History Program

28 Cruz, Celia. Interview in Smithsonian Institution Jazz Oral History Program

29 Díaz Ayala, Cristóbal. Música Cubana del areyto a la nueva trova

30 Díaz Ayala, Cristóbal. Música Cubana del areyto a la nueva trova

31 Valverde, Umberto. Celia Cruz: Reina rumba.

32 Jorge Ramos 1958-.” Biography Today

33 P.B.M., Don. “Ramos, Jorge.” Current Biography

34 Jorge Ramos 1958-.” Biography Today

35 P.B.M., Don. “Ramos, Jorge.” Current Biography

36 P.B.M., Don. “Ramos, Jorge.” Current Biography

37 Jorge Ramos 1958-.” Biography Today

38 Jorge Ramos 1958-.” Biography Today

39 P.B.M., Don. “Ramos, Jorge.” Current Biography

40 Wulf, Steve. “Arriba Roberto.Sports Illustrated

41 Nathan, Daniel A. “Sports History and Roberto Clemente: A Morality Tale and a Way Forward.” Journal of American History

42 Wagenheim, Kal. Clemente! Chicago: Olmstead Press

43 Nathan, Daniel A. “Sports History and Roberto Clemente: A Morality Tale and a Way Forward.” Journal of American History

44 Nathan, Daniel A. “Sports History and Roberto Clemente: A Morality Tale and a Way Forward.” Journal of American History

45 Feldman, Jay. “Roberto Clemente Went to Bat for All Latino Ballplayers.”

46 Wulf, Steve. “Arriba Roberto.Sports Illustrated

47 Feldman, Jay. “Roberto Clemente Went to Bat for All Latino Ballplayers.”

48 Maraniss, David. “The Meaning of ROBERTO CLEMENTE.” Sports Illustrated

49 Ortiz, David, and Michael Holley. Papi: My Story.

50 Ortiz, David, and Michael Holley. Papi: My Story.

51 Ortiz, David and Tony Massarotti. Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits.

52 Ortiz, David, and Michael Holley. Papi: My Story.

53 Ortiz, David, and Tony Massarotti. Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits.

54 Weir, Robert E. "Constructing Legends: Pumpsie Green, Race, and the Boston Red Sox."

55 Furcola, Marilyn. "Pumpsie & Progress: The Red Sox, Race and Redemption."

56 Lee, Joon. “'This Is OUR F--KING City': The Oral History.” Bleacher Report.

57 Ortiz, David, and Michael Holley. Papi: My Story.

58 Mullens, Patricia. “Using Outside Speaker in the Classroom.”

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