Unheard Voices

Unheard Voices is a Participatory Action Research (PAR) and documentary film project about the 2006 school walkouts in Texas. The walkouts, organized by local high school students, were in protest of criminalizing undocumented immigrants. These students joined thousands across the country who later marched in support of comprehensive immigration reform.

Video:
View the documentary film, Unheard Voices. You may be prompted to download or update Real Player®.

NACCS conference

Student researchers and crew:

Conference presentations:
2007 Hispanic Friends of UNT, Denton, TX
2007 NACCS-Tejas, Denton, TX View photo gallery

Publications:
Forthcoming  Nuñez-Janes, Mariela; García, Israel; Reyes, Esther.
Unheard Voices:Latino/a Youth Activism. In Roberto R. Calderón, Lorenzo García, Mariela Nuñez-Janes, Denis Paz, and David Molina, eds. |Immigrant Rights Are Civil Rights: Cultura, Arte y Comunidad. Denton: Mexican American Studies, University of North Texas, and the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies.

In the news:
Fort Worth Star Telegram article, "Film aims for spark of protests" (13 Oct 2006) by Leila Fadel. Full text of the article will appear soon.

This article highlights the motivations of students who participated and produced the film, Unheard Voices. Rumana Rahman, a UNT undergraduate quoted in the article, explains, "This is about giving youth an opportunity to tell their stories and not telling their stories for them."


Special thanks:
Mr. Tim Sanchez and his Denton High School class, MUEVE, Department of Anthropology and the NSF Summer Research Program, UNT's Multicultural Center