Interview with Eloísa Gómez, November 10, 2012
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- 2012-11-10
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Eloísa Gómez is interviewed on November 10, 2012, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Gómez talks about familial inspiration for activism and compassion as well as her experiences of and responses to gender and race discrimination. Gómez also talks about her photo project, titled "Latinas in Wisconsin," and her work at LaGuardia newspaper. Gómez speaks about her role models, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez, and how they impacted not only her identity, but her politics as well. Gómez also speaks about working for Milwaukee mayor John Norquist, and how that appointment caused sexist reactions in the community. Gómez discusses her work at the Latina Task Force and 16th St. Health Center in Milwaukee, and the lasting impact of the murder of Aurora Weier. This video interview was conducted by students who participated in a Chican@ and Latin@ Studies (CLS) course at University of Wisconsin-Madison, taught by Andrea-Teresa "Tess" Arenas, Ph.D.. Students were trained in qualitative research methodolog
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Gómez, Eloísa
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
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- Oral histories (document genre)
Hispanic American women -- Political activity -- Wisconsin
Hispanic American women -- Wisconsin -- Interviews
Women political activists -- Wisconsin -- Interviews - Location
- Milwaukee (Wis.)
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- moving image
- Language
- English
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- Gómez, Eloísa. Interview with Eloísa Gómez, November 10, 2012. 2012-11-10. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll15/id/27. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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- Gómez, Eloísa, (2012-11-10) Interview with Eloísa Gómez, November 10, 2012. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll15/id/27
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- Gómez, Eloísa. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll15/id/27>.