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East L.A. Chicano Student Walkouts (Blowouts)

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East L.A. Chicano Student Walkouts (Blowouts)

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Students and educators from five different high schools with a Latinx population over 75% walked out of their schools to protest:
1. run down campuses
2. overcrowding
3. corporal punishment
4. lack of college prep
5. lack of culturally relevant        education

Approximately 22,000 students and teachers participated.

School administrators and police officers gave protesters inconsistent responses; some schools allowed students to walk out, while others barred entrances and exists. This resulted in students being met with police brutality as the walked out and during the protests/marches.

The prominent figures of the protest were known as the East LA 13. They spoke, presented demands, and led protests. This group was indicted with conspiracy; they faced a total of 66 years combined of prison, however, they charges were struck down two years later.

Many of the organizers later became distinguished individuals in various fields. Carlos Muñoz Jr., for example, one of the East LA 13 collaborators, became an educators at UC Berkeley in the Department of Ethnic Studies.

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The East LA Chicanx Walkouts would have not been possible without unity and support. Therefore, for the theater aspect of the presentation, I invited the group to raise their fists, a symbol of solidarity, as I shared information about the historical event.

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They ask me to check the box for

“race”

And I think

And think very seriously

Then I begin to imagine writing down my truth

The whole truth

And have my answer read

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My skin ...is morena, sunkissed, golden under sunlight, shade C4 according to my makeup foundation.

My face … is round.

It is like ... the tortilladas my grandmother makes on Saturday mornings.

When I look at my face in the mirror, I see ...my lips, one slighter darker than the other.

When you look at my face I want you to see … my curved nose, an Indigenous feature I am proud of.

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But they didn’t ask me for “the whole truth”

They ask me to check the box for

My race

And I continue to think

And think very seriously

I imagine I am writing down my truth

And my answer will read like this.

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I have ... My father, who traveled far to a new country to provide my sibling and I a better life than the one had in his home country inside this body.

I have … my mother, who homeschooled me in my native tongue, making sure I’d stay connected to my cultural roots inside this body.

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They ask me to check the box for

My race

And I continue to think

And think very seriously

This is my truth

And my answer will be read like this.

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I have ... hand-crafted ofrendas to commemorate the lives of my ancestors and remind me of who I am inside this body.

I have … a pilgrimage to honor  Our Lady of Guadalupe, a powerful symbol of Mexican identity and faith, practiced annually on December 12, inside this body.

I have …the Spanish language, emotional and melodic, that represents family and unity

inside this body.

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These are my truths

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I am … patient, understanding, empathetic, soft, emotional, strong, and resilient.

I am like… the Methuselah tree.

I have… the desire to be a compassionate, engaging, self-actualized, culturally aware, anti-racist educator I seeked as a student inside this body.

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I know my truths

Yet still they ask me to check the box for

My race

And there is no room for me to write my whole truth

So I simply “check all of the boxes that apply”

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Hispanic
Latino/a
Spanish

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Andrea Flores_Self-Guided Virtual Museum Visit

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When you think about being graded, what comes up for you?

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When you think about being graded, what comes up for you?

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Movements:
Reading: flipping through pages.
Parents: self-hug
Hiking: walking in place