Watch online: “Reflecciones” (1972–74), Chicana/o/x Views on Los Angeles Television.

Through a collaboration between the UCLA Film & Television Archive, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and UCLA Library Digital Collections, with 56 preserved episodes of Reflecciones (1972–74) are now viewable online with enhanced metadata for improved discoverability.

These episodes provide a critical moving image record of how Chicana/o/x communities represented themselves on the medium of television during a pivotal time of social change in Los Angeles.

Produced for Los Angeles television station KABC, the vital local public affairs program offered Chicana/o/x perspectives as an alternative to network news sources, whose coverage often ignored or stereotyped people of color. Episodes of the local Emmy Award-winning series cover a diverse range of topics, including the United Farm Workers, efforts to incorporate East Los Angeles, Chicano prisoners of war in Vietnam, relations between Black and Brown gangs, and many more. Notable guests include actor and activist Ricardo Montalbán, filmmaker and activist Jesús Salvador Treviño, anti-war activist Delia Alvarez, and many others. Additionally, out of concern for, and in solidarity with, other marginalized communities not represented in the public affairs broadcast space, the Chicana/o/x producers of Reflecciones offered an inclusive view of Los Angeles and beyond, collaborating with community representatives and peers on episodes focusing on a view of Wounded Knee from Native American perspectives, a profile of Nisei Week celebrations in the community of Little Tokyo, and an examination of issues faced by people with intellectual disabilities.

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Watch online: “Reflecciones” (1972–74), Chicana/o/x Views on Los Angeles Television
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