Publication Date
2023
Collection
Capstones
Contributor
National Park Service, The San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum
Advisor
Lindsey Wieck
Description
“Birth of a Narrative” is a documentary project looking at the history of how former President of Mexico, Antonio López de Santa Anna, has been depicted in movies, television shows, and other visual media in the United States. American film producers have used the power of motion pictures to create a racialized narrative villainizing Antonio López de Santa Anna and Mexicans so as to aggrandize expansionists bent on eliminating or subordinating Tejanos. Films like “Birth of Texas: Martyrs of the Alamo” by DW Griffith and “The Alamo” by John Wayne pulled no punches as they project racial stereotypes of Latinos and Tejanos. “Birth of a Narrative” is intended to “fight fire with fire,” using visual media to challenge the narrative sold to millions of people around the world.
Keywords
Alamo, Latino, Tejano, Mexico, Navarro, race, war, Texas, Santa Anna, Latin America
Document Type
Text
Medium
Video, Manuscript
Format
pdf, external website
Size or Duration
17 pages
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Publisher
Youtube
City
San Antonio, Texas
Included in
Political History Commons, Public History Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons
Social Media or Other project websites