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Chicano studies, also known as Chicano/a studies, Chican@ studies, or Xicano studies originates from the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, and is the study of the Chicano and Latino experience. [1] [2] Chicano studies draws upon a variety of fields, including history, sociology, the arts, and Chicano literature. [3]
He was a founding co-editor of Aztlán, a journal of Chicano studies. He began teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1969 and has held his post for over forty years. He has served as the director of UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, as well as on the board of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) was founded in 2011 as a center for multidisciplinary research efforts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It is one of four ethnic studies centers established at UCLA that year. The center focuses on ethnic and racial communities.
Judy Baca has been teaching art in the UC system for just over 28 years, 15 of those years have been at the UCLA Caesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies. In 2002 she was joint appointed to the World Arts and Cultures department, and in 2010 she was named a professor (VIII) in both departments. [23] In 2018, Baca retired from the UCLA ...
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. [ 1 ]
While working on his Ph.D., Camarillo was a lecturer in the history department and Chicano studies department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1971–72. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1975, he joined Stanford University as assistant professor of history, and was named the Mellon Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in 1991 ...
The Plan Espiritual de Aztlán (English: "Spiritual Plan of Aztlán") was a pro-indigenist manifesto advocating Chicano nationalism and self-determination for Mexican Americans. It was adopted by the First National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference, a March 1969 convention hosted by Rodolfo Gonzales's Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado. [1]
Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement. [1] [2] [3] Chicano was originally a classist and racist slur used toward low-income Mexicans that was reclaimed in the 1940s among youth who belonged to the Pachuco and Pachuca subculture. [4] [5]