Aztlán Arizona: Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968–1978
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816529841 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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josi said Great source for the Chicano movement in. Currently doing a research paper on Arizona and the place of Mexicans in education. Great source for the Chicano movement in Arizona. Arizona educational struggles Pen Name Extremely detailed and researched.as a graduate of chicano studies this is new information that is not included in our curriculum. As the author indicated it is mainly the California and Texas struggle over equal education that is focused.
“Echeverría’s work is pathbreaking and unheralded in the historical literature of the Chicano/a student movement and in the Chicano Movement in particular.”—Christine Marin, archivist emeritus for the Chicano/a Research Collection, Arizona State University
Aztlán Arizona is a history of the Chicano Movement in Arizona in the 1960s and 1970s. The concluding chapter outlines key Mexican American individuals and organizations that became politically active in order to address Chicano educational concerns. The word Aztlán, originally meaning the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples of Mesoamerica, was adopted as a symbol of independence by Chicano/a activists during the movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Arizona’s unique role in the movement came from its (public) schools, which were the primary source of Chicano activism against the inequities in the judicial, social, economic, medical, political, and educational arenas. No other scholar has examined the emergence of Chicano Movement politics and its related school reform efforts in Arizona. Focusing on community and student activism in Phoenix and Tucson, Darius V. The book helps readers understand the issues surrounding the Chicano Movement educational reform and ethnic identity. Echeverría ties the Arizona events to the larger Chicano and civil ri