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Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam, by Vietnam vet Charley Trujillo, available at chusmahouse.com, I show this in almost every class, a former student, Oklahoma National Guard, who just refused to go to Iraq told me on the phone "Remember that movie you showed Soldados?"

Zoot Suit-I watch this over and over and never get tired of it. I don't know why. The students like it too.

Deacons for Defense--Although fictionalized, along with a good friend who actually was a civil rights activist in the south, I decided that this film touches on many of the key and often subtle issues in a very real way.

Savage Acts--if you have access to a college library, look it up and order it, it concerns racism and the imperial United States, focussing on the war in the Philippines at the turn of the century.

The Fight in the Fields--The first thing I was ever involved in, when I was 13 and 14, was the United Farm Workers. Although mostly about Cesar Chavez himself, and missing a lot of key points and events, I think this film gives my students a real taste of what real people's movements were like.

Talking Back to Civilization: American Indians in the Progressive Era, edited by Frederick Hoxie--a collection of writings by educated Indians, circa 1890-1920.

America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan--his book starts in the Philippines and heads to the West Coast in the 1930s, as Carlos Bulosan immigrates first to Seattle then to various parts of California, working in canneries and fields, and becoming an organizer. This is a brutally sad book.

Negros With Guns by Robert Williams--a segue between the more celebrated aspects of the civil rights movement and the development of more radical resistance, in particular the Black Panther Party. This book was published in 1962 and had a tremendous impact on young activists at the time

With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero by Americo Paredes--First published in 1958, there are people in Texas who are still riled about this one because of its view of the Texas Rangers. You will like reading this book, guaranteed.

Rebellion in the Borderlands: Anarchism and the Plan of San Diego, 1904-1923 by James A. Sandos--What? Rebellions? In Texas? Open season on Mexicans? What? How come nobody ever told me about this? Armed bands of Mexican-Americans attacking the King Ranch after they read anarchist newspapers? Anglo vigilante groups killing Mexicans? Is this really Texas?

Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster--This is a woman who had a lot of nerve. A collection of pamphlets published by Ida B. Wells that tell the truth about lynching and race and sex in the South.