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Cervantes, Leo. More than a century of the Chicano movement. 2004; Chávez, Ernesto. "Mi raza primero!" (My people first!) : nationalism, identity, and insurgency in the Chicano movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
The book is a collection of short stories, recollections of growing up Chicano in Fresno, California. It won a Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 1985. In these "narrative recollections" poet Gary Soto reflects on his Mexican American childhood in the ethnically mixed laboring-class neighborhoods of Fresno, California.
Before this, Chicano/a had been a term of derision, adopted by some Pachucos as an expression of defiance to Anglo-American society. [14] With the rise of Chicanismo, Chicano/a became a reclaimed term in the 1960s and 1970s, used to express political autonomy, ethnic and cultural solidarity, and pride in being of Indigenous descent, diverging from the assimilationist Mexican-American identity.
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 ...
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 ...
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945, written by George J. Sánchez and published in 1993 by Oxford University Press, explores the experiences of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles during the early 20th century. Sánchez provides a detailed look at Mexican Americans' lives, examining how ...
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 ...
El Plan de Santa Bárbara: A Chicano Plan for Higher Education is a 155-page document, which was written in 1969 by the Chicano Coordinating Council on Higher Education. . Drafted at the University of California Santa Barbara, it is a blueprint for the inception of Chicana/o studies programs in colleges and universities throughout the US