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 Ricard...
