Making Aztlán: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977

Making Aztlán: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977
ISBN-10
082635467X
ISBN-13
9780826354679
Category
History
Pages
496
Language
English
Published
2014-04-30
Publisher
UNM Press
Authors
Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Irene Vásquez

Description

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 quest for basic equities for Mexican Americans in U.S. society. Within this matrix of agendas, objectives, strategies, approaches, ideologies, and identities, numerous electrifying moments stitched together the struggle for civil and human rights. Gómez-Quiñones and Vásquez show how these convergences underscored tensions among diverse individuals and organizations at every level. Their narrative offers an assessment of U.S. society and the Mexican American community at a critical time, offering a unique understanding of its civic progress toward a more equitable social order.

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