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  2. Brown, Not White - Wikipedia

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    Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston is a 2005 book by Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., published by the Texas A&M University Press. Brown, Not White discusses Chicano activism in Houston, Texas during the 20th century.

  3. Chicano Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento (Spanish for "the Movement"), was a social and political movement in the United States that worked to embrace a Chicano/a identity and worldview that combated structural racism, encouraged cultural revitalization, and achieved community empowerment by rejecting assimilation.

  4. Chicano literature - Wikipedia

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    Chicano poet Alurista performing a poetry reading (1982) Chicano poetry is a subgenre of Chicano literature that stems from the cultural consciousness developed in the Chicano Movement. [14] Chicano poetry has its roots in the reclamation of Chicana/o as an identity of empowerment rather than denigration. [15] [16] As a literary field, Chicano ...

  5. The Revolt of the Cockroach People - Wikipedia

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    Brown becomes involved with the Chicano movement when he moved to Los Angeles in 1968 while looking to write a book. He spent three years with the Chicano Militants, defending them in various court cases and assisting in organizing protests and marches. The novel depicts the Chicano movement in the fictional barrio of "Tooner Flats" in East Los ...

  6. Martha P. Cotera - Wikipedia

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    Cotera at the 2018 Texas Book Festival. Martha P. Cotera (born January 17, 1938) is a librarian, writer, and influential activist of both the Chicano Civil Rights Movement and the Chicana Feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

  7. Oscar Zeta Acosta - Wikipedia

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    Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (/ ə ˈ k ɒ s t ə /; April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement.He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), [3] and was friends with American author Hunter S. Thompson.

  8. The staying power of Joe Kapp's 'The Toughest Chicano ... - AOL

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    The Chicano movement was in full force and inconveniencing the status quo. Earlier that year, the La Raza Unida Party formed and would disrupt elections in Texas and Los Angeles through the ballot ...

  9. Rodolfo Acuña - Wikipedia

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    Rodolfo "Rudy" Francisco Acuña (born May 18, 1932) is an American historian, professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge, and a scholar of Chicano studies. He is currently of the age of 92. He authored the 1972 book Occupied America: A History of Chicanos.

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