Making Aztlán : ideology and culture of the Chicana and Chicano movement, 1966-1977 / Juan Gómez-Quiñones and Irene Vásquez.

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"This book provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement's social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors examine the movement's origins in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how it evolved from a variety of organizations and activities united in their...

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Uniform Title:Contextos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Main Authors: Gómez-Quiñones, Juan (Author)
Vásquez, Irene (Author)
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2014]
Series:Contextos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Subjects:
Chicano movement.
Mexican Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
United States > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Physical Description:xxxii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: presences and questions
  • Paradigms and theories
  • Past contemporaries
  • Realities matter
  • Identity expressions
  • Impetuses
  • Circumstantial moments
  • Half the sky
  • Labor risings
  • Tierra y vida
  • Justice constructed
  • Confrontational ways
  • Community defense
  • Students act
  • Youth forward
  • Schoolhouses
  • Studies evolve
  • Alternative schooling
  • Better times
  • Policing police
  • Electioneering
  • Church choirs
  • New options
  • Renaissance
  • Street says
  • Sounds
  • Acting
  • Dance
  • Film
  • Words
  • Arts
  • Internationalizing
  • Solidarity
  • Rights revisited
  • Significance syncopations
  • Electoral exercises
  • Corrido stops
  • Instituion building
  • Summing up
  • Analysis: the practices of Coyountura
  • Chronology.