LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – A Mid-Michigan native is sharing the years-long fight for Xicano studies at Michigan State University with a documentary.
Ernesto Todd Mireles is taking his documentary, ‘War of the Flea: Fight for Xicano Studies,’ on tour and his first stop was his hometown of Lansing.
The film takes people through the Hispanic and Latino peoples’ fight for community recognition in the 1990s amid racism, and how that influenced the fight for Xicano studies at MSU, where Mireles studied…