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Making Aztlan
Gomez-Quinones, Juan; Vasquez, Irene
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Description for Making Aztlan
Paperback. Provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement's social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors narrative offers an assessment of US society and the Mexican American community at a critical time, offering a unique understanding of its civic progress toward a more equitable social order. Num Pages: 496 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; JPVH; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 726.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826354662
SKU
V9780826354662
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About Gomez-Quinones, Juan; Vasquez, Irene
Juan G?mez-Quiñones is a professor of history at UCLA, USA. His earlier books include Mexican American Labor, 1790–1990, Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600–1940, and Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise, 1940–1990, all published by the University of New Mexico Press. Irene Vásquez is the director of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is coauthor ... Read more
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