“Salt of the Earth” Screening
Salt of the Earth Screening
7 PM- 8:30 PM
Tuesday, March 9, 2020
Description: Mexican workers at a Zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
Stream the film on Kanopy here
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See the Conversation
Coming together to unpack the film, we have ACC’s own Radio, Television, and Film Professor, Dr. Mark Cunningham who will be joined by Dr. Gary Moreno, ACC Professor of History and Director of ACC’s El Centro and Dr. Maria Cotera, Professor of Mexican American and Latino Studies at University of Texas at Austin.
Featuring Co-Discussants:
Dr. Maria Cotera
Maria Cotera holds a PhD from Stanford University’s Program in Modern Thought, and an MA in English from the University of Texas. She is currently an associate professor in the Mexican American and Latino Studies Department at the University of Texas. Cotera’s first book, Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the Poetics of Culture, (University of Texas Press, 2008) received the Gloria Anzaldúa book prize for 2009 from the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). Her edited volume (with Dionne Espinoza and Maylei Blackwell), Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Feminism and Activism in the Movement Era (University of Texas Press, 2018) has been adopted in courses across the country. Professor Cotera is currently working on the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Project, an online interactive archive of oral histories and material culture documenting Chicana Feminist praxis from 1965-1985. She is the lead curator for two public history exhibits: Las Rebeldes: Stories of Strength and Struggle in southeast Michigan (2013) and Chicana Fotos: Nancy DeLos Santos (2017). Cotera has served on the National Council for the American Studies Association (2007-2010), the governing board of the Latina/o Studies Association (2014-2015), the program committee for the National Women’s Studies Association (2017-2018), and the Arte Público Recovery Project Governing Board (2018-present).
Dr. Gary Moreno
Austin Community College District (ACC) director of El Centro, the college’s Latino/Latin American Studies Center. Moreno earned his doctorate in Latin American History from the University of Oklahoma and has a forthcoming publication with the University of New Mexico Press titled, Charro: The History of a Cultural Icon. He previously taught at Rose State Community College near Oklahoma City. He has had an interest and affinity for our community since first visiting Austin in 2012 to conduct research at the Nettie Lee Benson Library at the University of Texas.