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Chicanx Utopias
Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and movements for
civil rights and global justice in the post-World War II era,
Chicanxs in film, music, television, and art weaponized culture to
combat often oppressive economic and political conditions. They
envisioned utopias that, even if never fully realized, reimagined
the world and linked seemingly disparate people and places. In the
latter half of the twentieth century, Chicanx popular culture
forged a politics of the possible and gave rise to utopian dreams
that sprang from everyday experiences.
In Chicanx Utopias , Luis Alvarez offers a broad study
of these utopian visions from the 1950s to the 2000s. Probing the
film Salt of the Earth , brown-eyed soul music, sitcoms,
poster art, and borderlands reggae music, he examines how Chicanx
pop culture, capable of both liberation and exploitation, fostered
interracial and transnational identities, engaged social movements,
and produced varied utopian visions with divergent possibilities
and limits. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Walter
Benjamin, Stuart Hall, and the Zapatista movement, this book
reveals how Chicanxs articulated pop cultural utopias to make sense
of, challenge, and improve the worlds they inhabited.
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The Chicano generation : testimonios of the movement
\"This is the story of the historic Chicano Movement in Los Angeles during the late 1960s and 1970s. The Chicano Movement was the largest civil rights and empowerment movement in the history of Mexican Americans in the United States. The movement was led by a new generation of political activists calling themselves Chicanos, a countercultural barrio term. This book is the story of three key activists, Raul Ruiz, Gloria Arellanes, and Rosalio Muنnoz, who through oral history related their experiences as movement activist to historian Mario T. Garcâia. As first-person autobiographical narratives, these stories put a human face to this profound social movement and provide a life-story perspective as to why these individuals became activists\"--Provided by publisher.
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Quixote's Soldiers
In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transformed the barrios and ultimately brought down the old Anglo oligarchy. InQuixote's Soldiers, David Montejano uses a wealth of previously untapped sources, including the congressional papers of Henry B. Gonzalez, to present an intriguing and highly readable account of this turbulent period.
Montejano divides the narrative into three parts. In the first part, he recounts how college student activists and politicized social workers mobilized barrio youth and mounted an aggressive challenge to both Anglo and Mexican American political elites. In the second part, Montejano looks at the dynamic evolution of the Chicano movement and the emergence of clear gender and class distinctions as women and ex-gang youth struggled to gain recognition as serious political actors. In the final part, Montejano analyzes the failures and successes of movement politics. He describes the work of second-generation movement organizations that made possible a new and more representative political order, symbolized by the election of Mayor Henry Cisneros in 1981.
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Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force
The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine the meaning of artistic production and artwork to include community engagement projects such as breakfast programs, community art classes, and political and labor activism. The collective’s work has contributed significantly both to Chicano/a civil rights activism and to Chicano/a art history, literature, and culture. Blending RCAF members’ biographies and accounts of their artistic production with art historical, cultural, and literary scholarship, Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force is the first in-depth study of this vanguard Chicano/a arts collective and activist group. Ella Maria Diaz investigates how the RCAF questioned and countered conventions of Western art, from the canon taught in US institutions to Mexican national art history, while advancing a Chicano/a historical consciousness in the cultural borderlands. In particular, she demonstrates how women significantly contributed to the collective’s output, navigating and challenging the overarching patriarchal cultural norms of the Chicano Movement and their manifestations in the RCAF. Diaz also shows how the RCAF’s verbal and visual architecture—a literal and figurative construction of Chicano/a signs, symbols, and texts—established the groundwork for numerous theoretical interventions made by key scholars in the 1990s and the twenty-first century.
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Rewriting the Chicano Movement
The Chicano Movement, el movimiento, is known as the largest and
most expansive civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican
Americans up to that time. It made Chicanos into major American
political actors and laid the foundation for today's Latino
political power. Rewriting the Chicano Movement is a
collection of powerful new essays on the Chicano Movement that
expand and revise our understanding of the movement. These essays
capture the commitment, courage, and perseverance of movement
activists, both men and women, and their struggles to achieve the
promises of American democracy. The essays in this volume broaden
traditional views of the Chicano Movement that are too narrow and
monolithic. Instead, the contributors to this book highlight the
role of women in the movement, the regional and ideological
diversification of the movement, and the various cultural fronts in
which the movement was active. Rewriting the Chicano
Movement stresses that there was no single Chicano Movement
but instead a composite of movements committed to the same goal of
Chicano self-determination. Scholars, students, and community
activists interested in the history of the Chicano Movement can
best start by reading this book. Contributors: Holly
Barnet-Sanchez, Tim Drescher, Jesús Jesse Esparza, Patrick Fontes,
Mario T. García, Tiffany Jasmín González, Ellen McCracken, Juan
Pablo Mercado, Andrea Muñoz, Michael Anthony Turcios, Omar
Valerio-Jiménez
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Volver : a persistence of memory
\"Born on the eve of World War II into a family of Mexican immigrants in El Paso, Antonio C. Márquez remains a child of the border, his life partaking of multiple cultures, countries, and classes. Here he recounts his life story, from childhood memories of movies and baseball and friendship with his Chinese Mexican American neighbor, Manuel Wong, to the turbulent events of his manhood. Márquez recalls the impact of immigration and war on his family; his experiences of gang conflict in El Paso and Los Angeles in the 1960s; enlisting in the Marine Corps; his activism in the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era, and the Crusade for Justice; and his travels to crisis-ridden Latin American countries. From a family where no one had the luxury of higher education, Márquez became a professor when universities hired few Chicanos. His is a story of survival and courage\"--Provided by publisher.
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From Mexico to Vietnam : a Chicano story
After losing her father at an early age, Tina Duran explores the rich history of her father, the story of her ancestors who migrated from Mexico to the United States, and the implications the Vietnam War had on the Chicano & Latino community.
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