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Oral history interview with Jason Romero, Jr., 2013
Oral history interview with Jason Romero, Jr., 2013
Call Number
OH1865-V
Date
2013
Description
Jason Romero was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado. He attended Pueblo Community College while in high school, graduating with an associate's degree in 2010. He then went to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he graduated in 2013, summa cum laude. At the time of this interview he was about to start a graduate program in educaton. In his interview he discussses his educational experiences, "low rider" vehicles as a cultural phenomenon, the development of his identity as a Chicano, the importance of Latino student organizations while he was at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and harassment by the police based on his ethnic identity.
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Celebrando Nuestra Cultura: Past, Present, and Future.
Celebrando Nuestra Cultura: Past, Present, and Future.
Call Number
995-4-1
Date
2022
Contents
6 videos (digital only).
Description
A series of presentations on Latino experience and culture organized by Frasier Meadows staff and residents.
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Municipal Government Reference Collection: Minorities.
Municipal Government Reference Collection: Minorities.
Call Number
749-24-2
Date
1995-2005
Contents
1 folder.
Description
This folder contains newspaper clippings about minorities, racism, discrimination, and human rights efforts in Boulder County. The clippings were compiled by the Reference Staff at the Boulder Public Library.
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Oral history interview with Deisy DeLuna, 2013
Oral history interview with Deisy DeLuna, 2013
Call Number
OH1871-V
Date
2013
Description
Deisy DeLuna was born in Mexico and lived there until she was eleven years old. Her grandparents had come to work in this country through the Braceros Program, and later, her father worked in the United States as well, visiting the family back in Mexico every three years. When she was 11, her immediate family moved to Longmont to join her father. She describes her schooling in Longmont schools, which included a 1-year bilingual newcomers program, after which her schooling was entirely in English, with mostly white students. She reflects on the positive schooling experiences that she had. Her teachers even raised money to pay for part of her first year at college. She discusses the ASSET law, which will lower her cost for continuing to go to college. She talks about the importance of education, the ways in which she sees being bilingual as being an asset for her, and her dreams for the future.
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Oral history interview with Veronica Lamas, 2013
Oral history interview with Veronica Lamas, 2013
Call Number
OH1892-V
Date
2013
Description
Veronica was born in Oregon. Her parents, who had come to this country in 1984 from Mexico for job opportunities, worked as agricultural laborers, moving between Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, and Texas to find employment. When she was a young child her parents were arrested for being illegal immigrants and sent to jail in Oregon. She relates the difficulties and humiliations that ensued for her and her siblings, including her two older siblings being forced to walk through airports wearing handcuffs and leg shackles as they were put in foster care; the bullying she endured at school for her impoverished situation; and the difficulties of growing up without a father after her mother's release and her father's deportation. She also talks about her (successful) struggle to obtain a college education and her ambition to be an immigration lawyer, born of her childhood experience of wanting to help her father.
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