Topic: How the member of Chicanos Unidos became activists?
Possible interview or research questions:
• Background (education, family, as immigrant, cultural traditions)
• Were you born here? Or moved from Mexico?
• Parents’ occupation, social class
• Did enjoy your education when you were young?
• Could describe your life as youth?
• What was your biggest struggle being as Mexican American during 60s-70s?
• How much did Chicano family value education during those time?
• If you had college education, can you describe what it was like? Also, did your parents go to college?
• When was the first time getting involved in activism?
• Important figure? (Politically? Educationally? Who influenced to realize their identity?)
• What was the defining moment to lead to your involvement in activism?
• If you could go back, what would change?
• What does social justice mean to them?
• Why did they decide to express strong opinion on Vietnam War?
• How was the Chicano activism related to anti war movement?
• What have you done as activist?
• Do you feel like you’ve made an impact?
• Is there any important event that we should know about in depth? If you were involved, would give us inside stake?
Things we need to do for preparation:
• Get a camcorder
• Where are we going to interview them? How are we going to get there?
• Research on Chicanos lives in general, history about Chicano movement
• Pre-interview
• Signing IRB
Things to do on Sunday’s meeting:
• Introducing us
• Sharing our purpose and goals of project
• Get contact info, and know who are going to participate in interview
Students at Sherman Institute, 1919. Courtesy Sherman Indian High School, Riverside CA.
1 comment:
Excellent questions. Nice work. These are the beginning of your question drafting. What I would like you to do now is group them under broad thematic and chronological categories. Then we'll talk again.
One note: most Chican@s are native born US folks.
Another note: just introduce yourselves and make contacts right now... let them meet you. Get a sense of who you might contact next.
A couple interviews, recorded and transcribed, would be enough for this project. I do not want you to become buried in the tasks associated with doing interviews. You need to practice analysis too.
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