Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Author: F. Arturo Rosales
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781611920949

Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement is the most comprehensive account of the arduous struggle by Mexican Americans to secure and protect their civil rights. It is also a companion volume to the critically acclaimed, four-part documentary series of the same title, which is now available on video from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Both this published volume and the video series are a testament to the Mexican American communityÍs hard-fought battle for social and legal equality as well as political and cultural identity. Since the United States-Mexico War, 1846-1848, Mexican Americans have striven to achieve full rights as citizens. From peaceful resistance and violent demonstrations, when their rights were ignored or abused, to the establishment of support organizations to carry on the struggle and the formation of labor unions to provide a united voice, the movement grew in strength and in numbers. However, it was during the 1960s and 1970s that the campaign exploded into a nationwide groundswell of Mexican Americans laying claim, once and for all, to their civil rights and asserting their cultural heritage. They took a name that had been used disparagingly against them for years„Chicano„and fashioned it into a battle cry, a term of pride, affirmation and struggle. Aimed at a broad general audience as well as college and high school students, Chicano! focuses on four themes: land, labor, educational reform and government. With solid research, accessible language and historical photographs, this volume highlights individuals, issues and pivotal developments that culminated in and comprised a landmark period for the second largest ethnic minority in the United States. Chicano! is a compelling monument to the individuals and events that transformed society.

Chicano Bibliography

Chicano Bibliography
Author: California State University, Sacramento. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1973
Genre: Mexican Americans
ISBN:

Chicano Bibliography

Chicano Bibliography
Author: California State College, Long Beach. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1976
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Chicano Bibliography

Chicano Bibliography
Author: University of California, Davis. Library. Ethnic Studies Unit
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1969
Genre: Mexican Americans
ISBN:

Chicano Bibliography

Chicano Bibliography
Author: Northern Arizona University. Libraries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1980
Genre: Mexican Americans
ISBN:

¡Chicana Power!

¡Chicana Power!
Author: Maylei Blackwell
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292726902

The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged in widespread protest in their struggle for social justice, civil rights, and self-determination, women in el movimiento became increasingly militant about the gap between the rhetoric of equality and the organizational culture that suppressed women's leadership and subjected women to chauvinism, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Based on rich oral histories and extensive archival research, Maylei Blackwell analyzes the struggles over gender and sexuality within the Chicano Movement and illustrates how those struggles produced new forms of racial consciousness, gender awareness, and political identities. ¡Chicana Power! provides a critical genealogy of pioneering Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez and the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, one of the first Latina feminist organizations, who together with other Chicana activists forged an autonomous space for women's political participation and challenged the gendered confines of Chicano nationalism in the movement and in the formation of the field of Chicana studies. She uncovers the multifaceted vision of liberation that continues to reverberate today as contemporary activists, artists, and intellectuals, both grassroots and academic, struggle for, revise, and rework the political legacy of Chicana feminism.