Brown is the New Green

A Mount San Antonio College literature professor, dedicated Galleryblog Simi Valley correspondent, and closeted Chicano wanna-be, Michael Wyatt Harper, writes in to remind me that I have not written a smidgen about a new documentary on PBS this week that chronicles, among other things, the rise of Latinos and Latinas in American mass culture--the PBS skinny is here. Many suspect PBS is trying to placate critics of Ken Burns by airing these Latino-laced shows, this owing to Burn's myopia when it comes to Mexican-Americans and other swarthy n'ere-do-wells he omits from his opus. More soon after I screen the show tonight.