Opinion: How a historian helped TV's 'Perry Mason' tell the truth
I grew up in a Spanish-speaking home in Echo Park. On my mother’s one day off a week from her restaurant, we’d go to matinees at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. We rarely saw people like us on the screen, but on TV, I watched “I Love Lucy”: finally, a Latino lead actor who even spoke Spanish, though it made him the butt of other characters’ jokes.
I’d served as a historical consultant before for documentaries, government agencies , corporations , museums and nonprofits, but this would be my first time helping with a television show. A team of My role was to help with Latinx and Los Angeles history: how different characters would have referred to the LAPD and FBI during in Depression-era L.A.; what words English- and Spanish-speakers would have used to protest and show dissent; what jump-rope songs would have been sung on sidewalks and streets.
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