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Title:

Escuela [videorecording] / producers, Hannah Weyer, Selina Lewis-Davidson ; director, Hannah Weyer ; produced by Border Pictures, Inc.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Women Make Movies,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

1 videodisc (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Children of migrant laborers--Education--United States.
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers--Education--California.
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers--Education--Texas.
Mexican American children--Education--California.
Mexican American children--Education--Texas.
Child labor--California.
Child labor--Texas.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.

Other Authors:

Weyer, Hannah.
Lewis-Davidson, Selina.
Luis, Liliana.
Border Pictures.
Women Make Movies (Firm)

Notes:

Originally produced as a documentary in 2002. Liliana Luis, Elizabeth Luis de Guerrero, Eliazar Luis, Alma Luis, Elizabeth Luis, Jackson Serros, Juanita Luis, Yesenia Luis, Lucas Contreras, and the extended Luis family.

Summary:

This film provides a clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants and their struggles to educate their children while obtaining employment, concentrating on the life of a teenager entering her first year of high school and on the social and emotional instability she experiences.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65219615

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)