Chicanismo
Title | Chicanismo PDF eBook |
Author | Ignacio M. Garc’a |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1997-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780816517886 |
During the 1960s and '70s, Mexican Americans began to agitate for social and political change. From their diverse activities and agendas there emerged a new political consciousness. Emphasizing race and class within the context of an oppressive society, this militant ethos would become the unifying theme for groups involved in a myriad of causes. Chicanismo, as it came to be known, marked a transformation in the way Mexican Americans thought about themselves, enabling them for the first time to see themselves as a community with a past and a present. In Chicanismo, the first intellectual history of the Chicano Movement and the militant ethos that emerged from it, Ignacio Garcia traces the development of the philosophical strains that guided the movement. First, Mexican Americans came to believe that the liberal agenda that had promised education and equality had failed them, leading them toward separatism. Second, they saw a need to reinterpret the past as it related to their own history, leading them to discovered their legacy of struggle. Third, Mexican American activists, intellectuals, and artists affirmed a renewed pride in their ethnicity and class status. Finally, this new philosophy-Chicanismo-was politicized through the struggles of the Chicano organizations that promoted it as they faced resistance or external attacks. Although the idea of Chicanismo would eventually unravel, its ideological strains remain important even today. Combining research and personal knowledge of people, events, organizations, and political/cultural rhetoric, along with a synthesis of scholarship from a variety of fields, Chicanismo provides a unique, multidimensional view of the Chicano Movement.
Chicano Folklore
Title | Chicano Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | Rafaela Castro |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2001-11-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780195146394 |
Originally published under title: Dictionary of Chicano folklore. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2000.
Chicana and Chicano Art
Title | Chicana and Chicano Art PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Francisco Jackson |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2009-02-14 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780816526475 |
"This is the first book solely dedicated to the history, development, and present-day flowering of Chicana and Chicano visual arts. It offers readers an opportunity to understand and appreciate Chicana/o art from its beginnings in the 1960s, its relationship to the Chicana/o Movement, and its leading artists, themes, current directions, and cultural impact." "The visual arts have both reflected and created Chicano culture in the United States. For college students - and for all readers who want to learn more about this subject - this book is an ideal introduction to an art movement with a social conscience." --Book Jacket.
Drink Cultura
Title | Drink Cultura PDF eBook |
Author | José Antonio Burciaga |
Publisher | VNR AG |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781877741074 |
Presents the Chicano experience of living within, between, and sometimes outside two cultures, exploring the damnation, salvation, and celebration of it all.
Chicano Studies
Title | Chicano Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Soldatenko |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2012-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 081659953X |
Chicano Studies is a comparatively new academic discipline. Unlike well-established fields of study that long ago codified their canons and curricula, the departments of Chicano Studies that exist today on U.S. college and university campuses are less than four decades old. In this edifying and frequently eye-opening book, a career member of the discipline examines its foundations and early years. Based on an extraordinary range of sources and cognizant of infighting and the importance of personalities, Chicano Studies is the first history of the discipline. What are the assumptions, models, theories, and practices of the academic discipline now known as Chicano Studies? Like most scholars working in the field, Michael Soldatenko didn't know the answers to these questions even though he had been teaching for many years. Intensely curious, he set out to find the answers, and this book is the result of his labors. Here readers will discover how the discipline came into existence in the late 1960s and how it matured during the next fifteen years-from an often confrontational protest of dissatisfied Chicana/o college students into a univocal scholarly voice (or so it appears to outsiders). Part intellectual history, part social criticism, and part personal meditation, Chicano Studies attempts to make sense of the collision (and occasional wreckage) of politics, culture, scholarship, ideology, and philosophy that created a new academic discipline. Along the way, it identifies a remarkable cast of scholars and administrators who added considerable zest to the drama.
The Chicano Movement
Title | The Chicano Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Mario T. Garcia |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2014-03-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135053650 |
The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the Movement expanded to urban areas throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Pacific Northwest, as a generation of self-proclaimed Chicanos fought to empower their communities. Recently, a new generation of historians has produced an explosion of interesting work on the Movement. The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century collects the various strands of this research into one readable collection, exploring the contours of the Movement while disputing the idea of it being one monolithic group. Bringing the story up through the 1980s, The Chicano Movement introduces students to the impact of the Movement, and enables them to expand their understanding of what it means to be an activist, a Chicano, and an American.
La Raza Unida Party
Title | La Raza Unida Party PDF eBook |
Author | Armando Navarro |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2010-06-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1439905584 |
A comprehensive study of an ethnic political movement.