首页
财务会计
医药卫生
金融经济
考公考编
外语考试
学历提升
职称考试
建筑工程
IT考试
其他
登录
职称考试
When American-born actor Michael Pena was a year old, his parents were deport...
When American-born actor Michael Pena was a year old, his parents were deport...
admin
2020-12-24
31
问题
When American-born actor Michael Pena was a year old, his parents were deported. They had illegally walked across the U.S. border from Mexico and when they were caught by immigration authorities, they sent Pena and his brother to stay with relatives in the U.S. “It was quite a bit of a gamble for my parents,” says Pena, “but they came back a year later.” Pena?s father, who had been a farmer in Mexico, got a job at a button factory in Chicago and, eventually, a green card. Pena stayed in Chicago until, at 19, he fled to Los Angeles to pursue his acting dreams. This family history makes Pena?s latest role especially personal. In Cesar Chavez, Pena plays the labor leader as he struggles to organize immigrant California farm workers in the 1960s. To pressure growers to improve working conditions and wages, Chavez led a national boycott of table grapes that lasted from 1965 to 1970 and is recorded in the film. Chavez, like Pena, was the American-born son of Mexican farmers who immigrated to the U.S. “
He understands this duality, the feeling of being born in a place but having a very big idea of where your heritage comes from,” says the film director, Diego Luna. “This thing of having to go to school and learn in English and then go home to speak Spanish with your parents.”
As immigration policy is hotly debated on Capitol Hill this year, Luna and others who were involved with Cesar Chavez are hoping the movie will spark new support for reform and inspire American Latinos to get involved. “The message Chavez left was that change couldn?t happen without the masses being a part of their own change,” says Ferrera, a first generation Honduran American who plays the union leader?s wife Helen. Rosario Dawson, who co-founded the advocacy group Voto Latino, plays Chavez ally and labor leader Dolores Huerta.
Immigrant-rights issues in the U.S. have evolved substantially in the years since Chavez founded the United Farm Workers (UFW). Undocumented workers now make up a far larger share of the agricultural workforce in California than they did in the 1960s, according to Miriam Pawel, author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, published the next month. Chavez was vehemently against illegal immigration, believing it made strikes difficult to execute and weakened the union. He initiated a program in the mid-1970s to locate undocumented farm workers and report them to immigration officials, Pawel writes. And despite his early victories, Chavez?s UFW union represents just a small part of those working on California farms today. “Chavez?s legacy is not in the field, which is sad,” says Pawel. Still, she says, his organizing strategies, featured extensively in Cesar Chavez, have been adopted by other activists, including those leading the modern immigrant-rights movement. Chavez's most important contribution may have been humanizing the Latino population for the American public. Farm laborers, many of whom barely spoke English, traveled across the country during the grape boycott, standing outside grocery stores to persuade housewives not to buy grapes and to spread the word about their plight. “They gave the boycott this very human face,” says Pawel. “It was families talking to other families,” says Luna. “It?s about the power we have just by being who we are.”
What has made Pena?s role as Chavez in the movie Cesar Chavez so distinctive?
选项
A. His Mexican immigrant background.
B. His Awareness of his Mexican heritage.
C. His bilingual life at home and at school.
D. His status before legal registration in the US.
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://ti.zuoweng.com/ti/h9T8KKKQ
相关试题推荐
Inthecollege-admissionswars,weparentsarethetruefighters.We'repush...
Inthecollege-admissionswars,weparentsarethetruefighters.We'repush...
Inthecollege-admissionswars,weparentsarethetruefighters.We'repush...
Inthecollege-admissionswars,weparentsarethetruefighters.We'repush...
Inthecollege-admissionswars,weparentsarethetruefighters.We'repush...
WhenAmerican-bornactorMichaelPenawasayearold,hisparentsweredeport...
WhenAmerican-bornactorMichaelPenawasayearold,hisparentsweredeport...
WhenAmerican-bornactorMichaelPenawasayearold,hisparentsweredeport...
根据以下材料,回答题 SometimesIreallydoubtwhetherthereislovebetweenmyparents....
根据以下材料,回答题 SometimesIreallydoubtwhetherthereislovebetweenmyparents....
随机试题
以下不属于护士权利的是 A、保障护士的工资,福利待遇 B、保护患者隐私
为配合以光气为原料之类充气化工产品的工艺,在某化工企业的生产过程中使用锅炉、压力
关于水稻,下列说法错误的是:
证券金融公司应当按照国家宏观政策,根据市场状况和风险控制需要,确定和调整()
体育教学直观性原则主要依据下列哪一规律提出?()
某建设项目首期建设产能的一半,两年后建设剩余产能,其污染治理设施按全部产能在首期
迈克尔认为学习策略包含着____、元认知策略和资源管理策略三大部分。
第二产程停滞A.从规律宫缩开始,经16小时宫口扩张至2cmB.初产妇宫口开全2小时尚未分娩C.宫口在开至5cm后,2小时仍5cmD.8小时前宫口扩张3cm
共用题干 在现代社会,药学信息的收集已不困难,但很容易出现信息量大但杂乱无章和重复的现象。药师必须通过专业的药学信息检索,对众多良莠不齐的药物信息进行客...
进行房屋保险时,先要确定的保险金额,原则上要求()。A、保险金额为房屋实际价值的1.5倍B、保险金额为房屋实际价值相等C、房屋实际价值为保险金融的70%D