A Crushing Love, Sylvia Morales sequel to her groundbreaking history of Chicana women, Chicana (1979), honors the achievements of five activist Latinas—labor organizer/farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author/educator Elizabeth Betita Martinez, writer/playwright/educator Cherrie Moraga, civil rights advocate Alicia Escalante, and historian/writer Martha Cotera—and considers how these single mothers managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time.The following is a revealing clip from that documentary that encapsulates some of the ups and downs of being a single Latina activist mami:
(The above clip comes courtesy of Women Make Movies, www.wmm.com).
Online Sources- YouTube, The Latin Americanist
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