Making Aztlan: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977 (Contextos) - Softcover

Juan Gómez-Quiñones; Irene Vásquez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826354661 ISBN 13: 9780826354662

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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 of Latino-Latino Americanos, 2000: Things Social Do Not Melt into the Air and coeditor of The Borders in All of Us: New Approaches to Global Diasporic Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0826354661
• ISBN 13: 9780826354662
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496