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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"The Chicano Movement"”.
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Transnational Connections of the Mexican Left with the Chicano Movement, 1960s-1970s
<p>My dissertation analyzes the nature of the transnational solidarity movements established between Chicana/o and Mexican activists through the 1960s and 1970s in the midst of the Mexican Dirty War, the Chicana/o Movement, and Third World Solidarity movements. These claims of political solidarity …
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El movimiento and Vietnam : the causes and consequences of Chicano protest of the Vietnam War.
The Chicano Movement, a radical offshoot of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement, came forth upon the national scene during the turbulent 1960s. After a promising start, the movement fizzled, and by the middle of the 1970s was finished. One of the main reasons for the decline of the Chicano …
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Framing Identity: Repudiating the Ideal in Chicana Literature
<p>In the 1960s Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez penned his now canonical, epic poem “I Am Joaquin.” The poem chronicles the historic oppression of a transnational, Mexican people as well as revolutionary acts of their forefathers in resisting tyranny<em>.</em> Coinciding with a series of renewed, …
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San Antonio CineFestival: A Reclamation of Chicano Cinema
Chicano cinema is a genre of film that was born out of the Chicano Movement in the late 60’s, however not much has been written about the exhibition of Chicano film. The Chicano Film Festival began in 1976 in San Antonio, Texas to showcase Chicano filmmakers and their work. The Festival, later …
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From the Movement to the Post -Movement: Rethinking Anti-Hegemonic Discourses in Chicana Feminist Thought
"This dissertation critically historicizes the shift between the consciousness movement period of the 1960s and 70s and the post-Movement period by drawing upon the historic and literary roots of Chicana writing and examining the way in which early texts have entered into the contemporary …
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The Harrison High School walkouts of 1968: struggle for equal schools and Chicanismo in Chicago
For the most part, high school activism in the Midwest has not been the subject of scholarly research. Moreover, the Chicano Movement in Chicago is a history that at present remains largely unrecorded. This study examines archival evidence such as newspaper articles, intelligence reports, as well …
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El empalme de fronteras y los procesos de identificación como métodos para la articulación de subjetividades fronterizas
2 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION El empalme de fronteras y los procesos de identificaci├│n como m├⌐todos para la articulaci├│n de subjetividades fronterizas by Leticia Trevi├▒o McDoniel Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literatures Washington University in Saint Louis, 2009 Professor …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
In the United States in the mid-1960's, Chicano cultural nationalists mobilized a generation by recuperating the history and mythology of the pre-conquest Aztecs as strategies of political resistance. Claiming themselves la Raza de Bronce the Bronze race) in their art, literature, and political …
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¡El Barrio Unido Jamás Será Vencido!:” Neighborhood Grassroots Activism and Community Preservation in El Paso, Texas
… Texas, a one square mile neighborhood along the U.S.-México border, functioned as a city within a city. For over a century, the ethnic Mexican population created a vibrant community and developed an emotional ownership of the Southside. Although socio-economically and politically …
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Retextualized transculturations: The emergence of La Malinche as figure in Chicana literature
… interdisciplinary social and cultural reading of the numerous retextualizations of the Malinche figure in Chicana literature from 1973-1991. As Chicana feminists began to challenge their traditional, culturally sanctioned gender roles and to increase their political participation in the Chicano …
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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
Envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) represented a bold attempt to revitalize the black freedom struggle as a movement explicitly based on class, not race. Incorporating African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and poor …
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Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing
… US policy toward Mexican Americans. I use the term domestic violence because it most closely describes the double voiced discourse women engage to critique communities that condone violence against women as well as a country that perpetrates violence against Mexican Americans within its …
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Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas
… a detailed literary analysis of three well-known chicano novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima and Peregrinos de Aztlán. The approach is the utilization of the "paradise-fall-regeneration" pattern as a means to study the three stages of the principal characters' development. By identifying and …
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Phantoms of the Barrio: Chicana/o urban spatial politics and muralism, 1965-1985
… an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms