Self-study
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Most scholars of Mexican American history mark César Chávez's unionizing efforts among Mexican and Mexican American farm laborers in California as the beginning of Chicano political activism in the 1960s. ██ █████ █████████ ██████ ████ ███████ █████ ██████ █████████████ ███████████ ██ ██████████ █ █████████ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ██████████ ██ ████ █████ ██████████ ███ ████ ████ ████ █████ ███ █████ ██ ████████████ ███████ ████████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ██████ ██████████ ███████ █████ █████ ███████ ██ ████████ ████ ████████ ██████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████ █████████ ███ █████████ ████████ ██ ████████ ██ ██████ █████████ ███ ███████ ███████ █████████ █ ████████ ████ █████ █████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ██████
Into topic ·
Teatro Campesino theater company and Chicano theater movement
Valdez, who wanted to use theater for worker activism, connected with Chávez, a union leader for Mexican farm workers, and created the Teatro Campesino
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Origins of Chicano theater movement ·
Valdez created "actos" (skits) with striking farm workers
Note the analogy drawn between farm work and theater: author references "players" in the "drama" of fieldwork
Characteristics of actos ·
Satirical, propose solutions, and inspire to action
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Three perspectives ·
Theater historians', critic's, and author's
Theater historians say Valdez invented actos; critic Broyles-González says historians are wrong and the farm workers also deserve credit; and author says Broyles-González is right
Elaborate on origin of actos ·
Likely influenced by "carpas," an earlier form of satirical theater
Main point ·
Teatro Campesino's actos were a fusion of carpas and European-style theater thanks to the combined influences of farm works and Valdez
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Spotlight
15.
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a
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This is the best answer. The second sentence helps explain a motivation of those who developed actos — they were motivated by unionization efforts and concerns of farmworkers. It also helps explain an important aspect of the subject matter of actos — they presented problems of farmworkers.
b
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The second sentence doesn’t suggest there was any obstacle to gaining public acceptance for the work of the Teatro Campesino.
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The author never suggests that there is a potential objection to the idea that Teatro Campesino was effective political theater.
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The author doesn’t suggest that scholars have focused on something to the “exclusion” of theater history. The author never indicates that scholars neglect to give proper attention to Valdez or Chicano theater.
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The idea that Valdez is mistakenly thought to be individually responsible for actos has nothing to do with the claim about Chavez and the farm workers union.