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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 16, 1967
Latin American groups try to bury stereotypes
A number of groups at KU are working to bury the "Mexican in the sun," stereotype of Latin America. The Latin American Area Studies Committee, the Latin American Club and the Center for Latin American Studies are three such groups.
Stereotypes are likely to persist as long as people go along the same way always thinking the same thoughts about the same places.
Stereotypes of Latin American life can be wrong as hell. Suppose Capt. Rafael Gonazales, who has just piloted his jet from Chicago into Mexico City's international airport, decides to drive to San Vicente, a dusty little village in the north for a rest.
At the village he puts on a sombrero and sandals and sits in the sun in front of the local tavern. As he sits, an American couple pass by him saying, "See that man dozing in the sun. Now isn't that just the most typical
Film to be shown
A film sponsored by the Brazilian consulate and the KU Spanish - Portuguese department will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Pine Room of the Union. The film, "Brazilian Water Colors," is about Brazil's scenery with historical notes. The public is invited.
thing you've ever seen? We must take a picture of him.
The preceding example is fiction, only the truth has been preserved to make a point.
One of the Center's stereotypekilling projects this year is the presentation of four films to be shown free. The films are far from "typical."
"Cangaceiro" to be shown Nov. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Dyche Auditorium, is a Brazilian film which won a Cannes Film Festival award. It is a completely off-beat story of a lawless band of men dedicated to violence and brutality. The New York Times said that in "Cangaceiro," "there is a
wildness and passion in the rhythms that makes the blood run cold rather than hot."
Slated for presentation later are three other equally non-stereotype films, "Dark River," an Argentine film, Jan. 11; "The Given Word," another Brazilian classic, March 12 and "this Strange Passion," from Mexico, May 16.
Burt English, assistant professor of Political Science, heads the film series project. He is chairman of the program committee of the Center and assists Augelli in the Latin American Area program. Assisting in selection of the films was Fred Litto, assistant professor of Speech and Drama and Laurence Day, assistant professor of Journalism.
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