Coconut - Manuel Padilla Jr.

The lives of a Mexican-American family living in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley during the turbulent 1960's and 1970's are the focus of Coconut: Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside. Despite living a middle class life, \The Rodrigos\have to endure terms like \wetback\ and \beaner\- even though they don't speak Spanish. To top it off, their daughter is a Chicano rights activist who is mixing with the wrong group of militants; their sister-in-law suffers at the hands of an abusivehusband;..