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Salazar Family: A Look at Poverty

• 1970 ----- b & w ----- 14 min ----- 16mm
• Describes effects of poverty and the failure of social institutions (schools, courts, jails and rehabilitation agencies) to relate to a large Mexican family living near Salt Lake City. The "educational" background of the eight children includes training schools for the retarded, public schools, industrial schools for delinquents, neighborhood youth corps job training programs, mental hospitals, juvenile court, county jail and state prison. Yet five of them cannot read and one was sterilized at 15 while institutionalized. Mr. Salazar's speech is hard to understand, but it is clear from his comments that he thinks his children need jobs and he worries about their future.
• Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Latino/Chicano, Economics, Sociology)

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