Latino/Latina/Latinx
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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Scope Note: The LC authorized form conflates Hispanic with Latino/a; these have distinct meanings. For more information, see https://remezcla.com/features/culture/latino-vs-hispanic-vs-latinx-how-these-words-originated/
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Vilma Williams interview, 2021-10-30
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc036_05.wav
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Audio interview of Vilma Williams. Williams describes her life in Adams Morgan and Mt. Pleasant when it was the heart of the DC Latino community. She met other Latinos and eventually volunteered to work on Festival Committees in 1988-1990. She describes how she managed to organize the 1988 Reinado (Beauty Pageant) with no money and donations from local Latino businesses. She explains that the goal of the Festival was to expose Latinos, as well as others, to Latino culture, music, and dances....
Dates:
2021-10-30
Walter Burrell interview, 2021-08-29
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc036_06.wav
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Audio of interview with Walter Burrell. In 1988-1989 a friend suggested Mr. Burrell work as a volunteer for the Festival, and he joined as a Vice-President for the team that won elections in 1988. He helped organize the Parade, helped with marketing, and planned logistics and visual aspects of the Parade. As part of the Organizing Committee, he attended many events hosted by the various national groups who spent the entire year fundraising to secure funds to pay for the floats and dance...
Dates:
2021-08-29
Will Alvarez interview, 2020-12-17
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc026_07.wav
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This is an individual interview of Will Alvarez in which he discusses his Salvadoran upbringing in the DMV, his experiences in the bartending industry as a Latino and U.S. Army Veteran, and the impact of COVID-19 on residents and service professionals in the D.C. bartending community.
Dates:
2020-12-17
Willians Silva interview, 2020-08-13
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc027_05.wav
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The interview is in Spanish. Willians Silva talks about his early years in Peru before he immigrated to the Washington metro area. He talks about his first job in housekeeping at the Grand Hotel in Washington D.C.. He talks about being fired for trying to organize a union at that hotel. He talks about the difficulties of union organizing. But despite his despair at being fired, Silva met Arturo Griffiths who was an Organizer with Local 25. That friendship led to Silva's participation in the...
Dates:
2020-08-13