>> IT IS HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH IN HONOR OF THAT WE ARE TAKING TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE
RICH HISTORY THE CONTRIBUTIONS
OF OUR OWN
HISPANIC COMMUNITY. THIS IS AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME EDUCATION
TODAY, WE’RE JOINED BY JOHN
PHILLIP SANTOS DISTINGUISHED
LECTURER IN CULTURAL STUDIES AT
UTSA ALSO
AN AUTHOR DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING
HERE WITH US.
IT’S ALWAYS A
THINK YOU ARE THE SITUATIONS
YOU WELL WE’RE GLAD TO HAVE YOU
SO LET’S START WITH CULTURE.
>> WHAT DOES THAT EXPLAIN THAT
TO US.
>> WELL THE MISTY SO IS THE
TERM THAT IS
USED FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE MAY
GO CAME OUT OF THE MINGLING OF
INDIGENOUS IN SPANISH AND ASIAN
AND AFRICAN ORIGINS ALL WHO
MINGLED IN MEXICO AND BECAME
A NEW KIND OF
OR REVEALS SOMETHING THAT WAS A
VERY DEEP TRUTH ABOUT ALL OUR
HUMIDITY THAT WE’RE ALL MISS
THE SO IS THAT WE ARE ALL
MIXTURES OF MANY DIFFERENT
RACES GOING BACK IN TO
ANTIQUITY SO EACH OF US THESE
DAYS THROUGH GENETIC TESTING
CAN LEARN JUST HOW MISS THE SO
WE ARE. IN THE CASE OF THOSE WHO DERIVE FROM LATIN AMERICA MEXICO. WE HAVE THIS LEGACY
OF HAVING CONFRONTED THIS AND
BEGUN TO CELEBRATED IN THE 20TH
CENTURY. SO THE MISTY SO IS
THAT EXPERIENCE OF HUMANITY
WHERE WE RECOGNIZE
R D INTERMIXED YOUR RD
COMMINGLING YS WHAT ONE AUTHOR
SERVICE GOING CELLOS FROM YEAH
AS NEGATIVE AS EDUCATED IN
EAGLE
PASS CALLED. THAT’S A COSTLY
GOT THE COSMIC RACE.
I LOVE I LOVE YOUR DEFINITION
OF MISTY SO WE’RE ALL.
>> MISTY SAW THE IF YOU TALK
ABOUT THE DE-FUND THERE’S SO
MANY DIFFERENT TERMS THAT ARE
OUT THERE,
HISPANIC LATINO.
>> LATIN MISTY SO I MEAN HOW DO
YOU VIEW.
>> ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT
THINGS IS THERE A HARDENED SET
DEFINITION FOR EACH
OF THEM. THERE REALLY CAN’T BE
BECAUSE PART IS THE SOCKET PART
OF THE PROCESS OF BECOMING THIS
BE SO.
>> IS THAT WE ALL HAVE OUR OWN
UNIQUE WAY OF RELATING TO THESE
AS SUCH TRUE ORIGIN.
IN THE CASE OF SAN ANTONIO AND
OUR MIDST, THE SO HERITAGE
HERE. WE KNOW THAT
WE ARE DESCENDED FROM THE EPIC
OF MEXICO. SO WE COME TO
THIS STORY. IN A
SENSE REPRESENTING AMERICA’S
OTHER ORIGIN STORY THAT THE
ORIGIN STORY THAT BEGAN 500
YEARS AGO WITH THE CONQUEST OF
MEXICO, THE 5 100TH ANNIVERSARY
IS JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO.
SO CHICANO MEXICAN AMERICAN
AMERICANS OF MEXICAN DESCENT,
LATIN X TO SPEND THE NEXT
MORNING AGAIN,
YOU KNOW GO OH YEAH, I KNOW ALL
OF THESE
TERMS REFLECT THE WAYS THAT WE
INQUIRED
INTO OUR ORIGINS AND HOW WE
DESIGNATE UNDERSTAND THOSE
ORGANS IN TERMS
OF LANGUAGE. IN FACT SOMETHING
MUCH MORE MYSTERIOUS THAT
SOMEHOW LOSE LANGUAGE IT ELUDES
I APPRECIATE YOU SPENDING YOUR JUDGMENT FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENQUIRE INTO
THESE ORIGINS AS A CITY AS
A NATION. SO NOT ONLY ARE
WE KNOW HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
IS EVERY MONTH. YOU KNOW HERE
WE ARE ALWAYS ASKING THESE
QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO WE ARE
WHERE WE CAME FROM WHO WE ARE
BECOMING.
>> WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
TALK TO YOU FOR AN EPISODE OF
KSAT EXPLAINS ALL ABOUT CULTURE
IN SAN ANTONIO, AND IT’S
MUCH MORE THAN JUST HOW
DELICIOUS THEY ARE YOU MADE US
THINK ABOUT TACOS IN WAYS THAT
WE NEVER HAVE BEFORE IN TERMS
OF THEIR EVOLUTION. THE HISTORY
BEHIND
THE CUISINE AND YOU TALK TO
ABOUT HOW THE PERCEPTION OF
MEXICAN AMERICAN CULTURE HAS
CHANGED OVER THE LAST FEW
DECADES, SO WHAT CHANGES HAVE
YOU SEEN.
>> WELL IT’S TRANSFORMED FROM.
YOU KNOW THOSE OF US WHO GREW
UP A CERTAIN AGE MY BIRTHDAY’S
ON ON SUNDAY TURN 64 MIGHT
BEATLES BIRTHDAY WHEN
I’M 64 HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND THANK
YOUS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
STEVE YOU’RE IN THE SPAN OF MY
LIFETIME OF GOING FROM A TIME
WHEN WE STILL EXPERIENCED
EXCLUSION AND DISCRIMINATION
FOR TREATING DOCKLESS FOR
INSTANCE BY THE TIME I WAS IN
HIGH SCHOOL. PEOPLE WANTED TO
TRADE UP TO THE DOCTOR THAT I
WAS BRINGING TO
LURCHED SO THAT IS TRANSFORM
NOW IT’S PART OF THE ONGOING.
HISPANIC
INFLUENCE OF THIS NATION,
THE LATIN X THAT SHE CONNECTS
INFLUENCE UPON WHAT AMERICA IS
BECOMING SO WE’VE GONE
FROM BEING THE SO-CALLED
MINORITY TO BEING.
MINORITY MAJORITY
THE MOST POPULOUS MINORITY
COMMUNITY IN THE NATION.
WE’RE GOING TO BE
A BIG PART OF HOW AMERICA
TRANSFORMS ITSELF INTO A NATION
OF ALL
WHO IS A COMPLEX ORIGINS IS
COMPLEX DESTINY. UNFOLDS
THROUGH OUR LIVES.
SO THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY
TIME TO BE
WE’VE HIS JOURNEY OUT OF
EXCLUSION AND DISCRIMINATION
INTO A REAL CHALLENGE TO HOW WE
CAN TRANSFORM AMERICA.
YOU SAID YOU KNOW SAN ANTONIO
REALLY HAS HISPANIC HERITAGE.
ALL THE TIME AND WE’RE WE IT
SEEMS LIKE IT IT’S A IT’S A
CITY THE DEFINITELY EMBRACES
THAT.
>> BUT IT HASN’T ALWAYS BEEN
THAT WAY I MEAN YEAH AND I
DON’T THINK YOU CAN TALK ABOUT
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN LABOR
MOVEMENT
4 FOR EXAMPLE WITHOUT TALKING
ABOUT SAN ANTONIO AND HOW IT
KIND OF CAME TO GRIPS WITH
STUFF THAT THE CIT THAT THE
COUNTRY’S COMING TO GRIPS WITH
NOW.
>> CORRECT CORRECT YOU KNOW ANY
OF THEM. THE MOVIE MENTHOL HAD
A HUGE
ROLE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE
TRANSFORMATION OF SAN ANTONIO.
THIS IS A OF AN IMAGE OF A NEW
PROJECT MAPPING THE MOBILE UNIT
TO AN AUDIO TOUR OUT OF THE
UTSA LIBRARIES THAT I NARRATED
THAT REALLY MAPS THE WAY THAT
THE THAT YOU KIND OF CIVIL
RIGHTS MOVEMENT. TRANSFORM SAID
AND DONE THROUGH MEDIA PRINTERS
IT’S AN IMAGE FROM THE MOON
GIVE PRINTING PRESS THROUGH OF
FOLKS
BUT YOU’VE GOT TO DO THE OR
BEEN WHO ALSO WAS AN
EXTRAORDINARY CHEF AND
RESTAURATEUR TOUR. COULD GET AS
ONE OF THE
IMPORTANT SINGLE FIERY JUGANDO
ACTIVISTS VOICES IN THE IN THE
IN THE ENTIRE MOVEMENT THAT ALL
HAPPENED HERE IN SAN ANTONIO,
SO
WE TRANSFORMED THE CITY
BEGINNING OF THAT PERIOD OF THE
LATE 60’S EARLY 70’S
INTO A NEW WAY OF BEING IT LED
TO THE ELECTION OF HENRY
CISNEROS AND OUR LONGTIME
LEADERSHIP FROM HENRY B
GONZALEZ AND SO MANY OTHERS WHO
HAVE COME SINCE. SO WE ARE IN
THIS UP PIVOTAL ROLE IN
SOUTHERN DON’T YOU KNOW
IN TERMS OF THE WAY THAT OUR
HISTORY HAS RESHAPED THAT
CITY’S LEGACY AND THE WAY THAT
THAT IS AFFECTED THE NATION
THROUGH OUR
THE BROTHERS GUSTO AT THE
CURRENT TIME THE IN CONGRESS
AND AND WITH THAT WITH RIONDA
MANY THINGS TO COME.
SO THIS IS A STORY THAT’S VERY
MUCH UNFOLDING. NOW WE’RE
COMING TO A NEW TURNING POINT
IN TERMS OF
WHO WE WILL BECOME AS A AS A AS
A COMMUNITY AND HOW OUR
COMMUNITY HELPS SHAPE THE
NATION.
>> AND SAN ANTONIO PLAYING AN
INFLUENTIAL ROLE JOHN PHILLIP
SANTOS WE WISH WE HAD MORE TIME
TO SHARE WITH YOU.
THANKS FOR SPENDING THE TIME
THAT YOU DID WITH WHO’S THE
THANK YOU FOR THE INVITATION TO
TALK.
>> THIS SHE WELL, YEAH PLEASE