Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights MovementArte Publico Press, 1997 M01 1 - 328 páginas 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. |
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... protest that was so typical of campuses during this era . But the seeds of my politicization went back further . My case , not in its particulars but in historical context , is typical of how other partici- pants in the Chicano Movement ...
... protest that was so typical of campuses during this era . But the seeds of my politicization went back further . My case , not in its particulars but in historical context , is typical of how other partici- pants in the Chicano Movement ...
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... protest everything from racism to the war . But the youth movement also influenced the cultural direction Americans were taking . Full - time professionals , college students and even working - class adults who continued to lead ...
... protest everything from racism to the war . But the youth movement also influenced the cultural direction Americans were taking . Full - time professionals , college students and even working - class adults who continued to lead ...
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... protest fits into this era of social unrest is well - known to most Americans because it has been documented time and time again in both the print and elec- tronic media . However , the story of the Mexican American civil rights ...
... protest fits into this era of social unrest is well - known to most Americans because it has been documented time and time again in both the print and elec- tronic media . However , the story of the Mexican American civil rights ...
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... protesting periodically . In the twentieth century , however , as modernization and urbaniza- tion provoked a massive migration of Blacks from the rural South to the North , the African - Ameri- can aspirations rose , provoking an ...
... protesting periodically . In the twentieth century , however , as modernization and urbaniza- tion provoked a massive migration of Blacks from the rural South to the North , the African - Ameri- can aspirations rose , provoking an ...
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... protest that premovement activists were already employing or had employed in the past . Just as important , it reinvigorated the Mexican American quest to identify and assert a positive place in American society . To capture such a ...
... protest that premovement activists were already employing or had employed in the past . Just as important , it reinvigorated the Mexican American quest to identify and assert a positive place in American society . To capture such a ...
Contenido
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In Defense of México Undo | 55 |
Organizing el México de Afuera | 73 |
The Mexican American Generation | 89 |
In Defense of the Workplace | 111 |
The Struggle in the Fields | 129 |
The Chicano Moratorium | 197 |
The Youth of Aztlán | 209 |
The Road to Political Empowerment | 227 |
Legacy of the Chicano Movement | 249 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 269 |
CHRONOLOGY | 279 |
CREDITS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS | 283 |
INDEX | 287 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Francisco Arturo Rosales Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Francisco Arturo Rosales Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |
Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Francisco Arturo Rosales Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
activity Albuquerque aliancistas Alianza Anglo Arizona arrested Aztlán barrios became Black border boycott Brown Berets California campaign César Chávez CHAPTER Chicanismo Chicano Moratorium Chicano Movement Civil Rights Movement Corky County Crusade Crystal City cultural Dolores Huerta East Los Angeles efforts elected ethnic farm workers farm-worker federal Francisco García Gonzales González Governor grape Hispanic Houston Huerta issues jailed Jesús Treviño José Angel Gutiérrez labor land leaders LRUP Luis Luis Valdez LULAC March MAYO meeting ment Mexi Mexican American Mexican American Civil Mexican government Mexican immigrants Mexican workers Mexico México Lindo militant movimiento Muñiz Muñoz National newspaper NFWA NLCC-GP officials On-camera interview organization Oscar Castillo Paso Phoenix police political Press protest Raza Unida Party Reies López Tijerina repatriation Revolution Ruiz Salazar San Antonio Sánchez social Southwest Spanish strike struggle Texas Mexicans thousand tion Tucson union United University vote walkouts young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 26 - Mierda," the man with his chin on the ground said. "There is another that applies to here," Joaquin said, bringing them out as though they were talismans, "Pasionaria says it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Página 184 - In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal "gringo...
Página 57 - México lindo y querido Si muero lejos de ti Que digan que estoy dormido Y que me traigan aquí As the morning awakens My guitar beckons to me I want to sing my joy Of my Mexican land!
Página 123 - California, she became a member of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). She also helped in other Southwest organizing activities among Mexicans, including the pecan shellers
Página 184 - Chicanismo involves a crucial distinction in political consciousness between a Mexican American and a Chicano mentality. The Mexican American is a person who lacks respect for his cultural and ethnic heritage. Unsure of himself, he seeks assimilation as a way out of his "degraded
Página 2 - We were the pioneers of the Pacific coast, building towns and missions while General Washington was carrying on the war of the Revolution, and we often talk together of the days when a few hundred large Spanish ranches and mission tracts occupied the whole country from the Pacific to the San Joaquin.
Página 2 - ... .hicano activists believe that the US violently invaded Mexico, wrested from it what became the American Southwest and then subjugated its inhabitants; this event has been portrayed as the first of a series of actions casting Mexicans as victims of US imperialism. It follows, then, that a second raison d'etre of the Chicano Movement is the notion that the US violated basic tenets of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war with Mexico in 1848 and established conditions under which...
Página 10 - Mexicans! When the state of Texas began to receive the new organization which its sovereignty required as an integrant part of the Union, flocks of vampires, in the guise of men, came and scattered themselves in the settlements, without any capital except the corrupt heart and the most perverse intentions.
Página 256 - ... undergrowth of chapparal and mesquite. Mexicans settled easily in the Southwest, for, unlike European immigrants, Mexicans were really migrating to an area similar to that from which they came and that was peopled by their kinsmen. Indeed, there was mucha raza en el norte. Significance of the renaissance Perhaps the significance of the Chicano Renaissance lies in the identification of Chicanos with their Indian past. It matters not what etymologies are ascribed to the word "Chicano"; the distinction...