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Using Retablos to learn about Culture through individual tales

Before we begin, note a few big events, turning points, or definitive moments from your life. Please write them down.

As we look at some examples of Retablos, note common threads, tie them to what’s going on in that ‘where’ and ‘when’…

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RETABLOS –The Story of Migration through religious folk art

http://www.historia-antiques.com/new_gallery_page.php?web_cat=Retablos http://www.vanderbilt.edu/clas/in_the_news

http://www.downtownaustin.com/news/thisweek/?1210143600

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http://migracion.jornada.com.mx/migracion

A dónde se fueron:

Migration Policy Institutehttp://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/whoswhere.cfm

RETABLOS –The Story of Migration through religious folk art

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Mexican Retablos –•Few forms of religious folk art are as

abundant or expressive•Commonly found in western Mexico•Small, colorful paintings on sheets of tin

dedicated to Christ or the Virgin and left in shrines as tokens of thanks

•Stories of delivery from threatening events through holy intervention

Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

RETABLOS –The Story of Migration through religious folk art

Retablos – the Growth Years – 1965-80

Retablos – the Modern Era – 1980-90s

Retablos – the Bracero Years – 1940s

Retablos – the Later Bracero Years – 1950-64

Retablos – the Early Years – 1900-1940

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Retablos – the Early Years – 1900-1940

The “Early Years” coincided with: •World War I http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade10.html and

http://www.lonesentry.com/unithistory/23rd-infantry/index.html

•Prohibition http://www.winecommonsewer.com/the_wine_commonsewer/2008/12/repeal-day.html

•FDR http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/extra/images/medium/jan-june09/fdr_lg.jpg

•The Roaring Twenties•The Great Depression

•The Dust Bowl http://www.csub.edu/library/special/dustbowl/dustbowl.shtml

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Early Years – 1900-1940

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Early Years – 1900-1940

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Early Years – 1900-1940

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Retablos – the Bracero Years – 1940s to 1964

The “Bracero Years” coincided with: •The Zoot Suit Riots http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/sleepylagoon/sldc11.htm and

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/eng_timeline/index.html

•The Bracero Program (2M workers for field labor) http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/images/ and http://fairimmigration.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/

•Mass deportation of Mexicans 500,000+ (Depression), 1M in 1954 w/ “Operation Wetback”… 3M doc and undoc deported ’39-’54 by INS http://www.fundthedream.org/en/articles/exposing-self-evident-truths

•Rise of the Civil Rights Movement

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Bracero Years – 1940s

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Bracero Years – 1940s

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Bracero Years – 1940s

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Later Bracero Years – 1950-64

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Later Bracero Years – 1950-64

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Later Bracero Years – 1950-64

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Later Bracero Years – 1950-64

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A common patron saint for many Retablos: Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos

http://www.virgendesanjuan.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_San_Juan_de_los_Lagos

La Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos•San Juan is Located in Jalisco, 76 mi

NE of Guadalajara•Second most visited pilgrimage shrine

in Mexico (second to Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City)

•1542 – Spanish Priest brought statue ofVirgin of Immaculate Conception to town; 1623 – peasant girl ill, parents prayedfor health, miraculous recovery… Statue has been venerated since.

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Retablos – the Growth Years – 1965-80

The “Growth Years” coincided with: •Population Boom in Mexico http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=386

•Civil Rights Movements http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

•Chicano Movement http://books.google.com/books?id=_62IjQ-XQScC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=1965-1980+-+Mexican+Migration&source=bl&ots=WM8JstkvLT&sig=lMtQ5HbYd0BlVzWAN52SqK7sGug&hl=en&ei=WsZKSr2xMJLilAeB_qQL&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7 p153

•Women’s Movement http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade70.html

•Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta •Vietnam (escalation, end)•MLK LBJ Cold War Politics http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

•Immigration and Nationality Amendment http://www.fundthedream.org/en/articles/exposing-self-evident-truths

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Growth Years – 1965-80

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Growth Years – 1965-80

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Growth Years – 1965-80

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The “Modern Era” includes: •The 1980s•Reaganomics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg

•Rise of the Sun Belt http://www.hks.harvard.edu/taubmancenter/pdfs/sunbelt.pdf.

•The end of the Cold War/Berlin Wall http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/bltime1980.htm and swoosh22.com/berlin/details/009.html

•The L.A. Riots http://www.emergency.com/la-riots.htm and

http://www.paranormalknowledge.com/articles/tag/white-americans

•NAFTA/TLC http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/Policy/nafta/nafta.asp

Retablos – the Modern Era – 1980-90s

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Modern Era – 1980-90s

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Modern Era – 1980-90s

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Modern Era – 1980-90s

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Retablos – Migration Gallery: http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/expressions/gallery-en.aspx

Retablos – the Modern Era – 1980-90s

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RETABLOS –The Story of Migration through folk art

How can your classroom use Retablos?

What can we learn from Retablos?

How can you help your students make cultural connections, synthesize and create?

If you were to create your very own Retablo, what would it look like? Tell YOUR story!

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Refer back to the few big eventsturning points, or definitive momentsfrom your life that you wrote down…

…and now create a Retablo to tell YOUR story and give thanksfor success at a definitive moment…

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Here are a few ideas on how to use Retablos in the classroom*…Please share other ideas!• Students adopt a historic figure

and create a Retablo for them•Students create a Retablo for a

current social activist/leader•Create Retablos to practice

certain grammar points (pret/imp)

*See NOTE next slide…

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*Note – We as educators must recognize that students come from different faiths, and some don’t follow any religious system.Recommend that students go with whateverbelief system works for them (Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish, none at all)… but to express thanks in a way that is respectfuland appropriate to their beliefs. Whatever backgrounds students come from, they should be encouraged to celebrate them.

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Great resources to learn and do more: •Mexican Migration Project

http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/home-en.aspx

•Latin American Migration Projecthttp://lamp.opr.princeton.edu/home-en.htm

•National Institute for Migration (Mex)http://www.inm.gob.mx/ or in English: http://www.inm.gob.mx/EN/index.php

•Migration Information Sourcehttp://www.migrationinformation.org/index.cfm

Thinkfinity www.thinkfinity.org – type ‘migrant’ into ‘search’

•America on the Movehttp://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/themes/story_51_3.html

•Sin Fronteras http://www.sinfronteras.org.mx/

•La Jornada http://migracion.jornada.com.mx/migracion