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Auteur(s) : Echeverría, Darius V.
Titre(s) : Aztlán Arizona [Texte imprimé] : Mexican American educational empowerment, 1968-1978 / Darius V. Echeverría
Publication : Tucson : the University of Arizona press, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-179 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 159-175
" Aztlán Arizona is a history of the Chicano Movement in Arizona in the 1960s and
1970s. Focusing on community and student activism in Phoenix and Tucson, Darius V.
Echeverría ties the Arizona events to the larger Chicano and civil rights movements
against the backdrop of broad societal shifts that occurred throughout the country.
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. 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. In an era when poverty, prejudice, and considerable oppositional forces
blighted the lives of roughly one-fifth of Arizonans, the author argues that understanding
those societal realities is essential to defining the rise and power of the Chicano
Movement. The book illustrates how Mexican American communities fostered a togetherness
that ultimately modified larger Arizona society by revamping the educational history
of the region. The concluding chapter outlines key Mexican American individuals and
organizations that became politically active in order to address Chicano educational
concerns. This Chicano unity, reflected in student, parent, and community leadership
organizations, helped break barriers, dispel the Mexican American inferiority concept,
and create educational change that benefited all Arizonans. No other scholar has examined
the emergence of Chicano Movement politics and its related school reform efforts in
Arizona. Echeverria's thorough research, rich in scope and interpretation, is coupled
with detailed and exact endnotes. The book helps readers understand the issues surrounding
the Chicano Movement educational reform and ethnic identity. Equally important, the
author shows how residual effects of these dynamics are still pertinent today in places
such as Tucson"
Sujet(s) : Américains d'origine mexicaine -- Éducation -- Arizona (États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Américains d'origine mexicaine -- Politique et gouvernement -- Arizona (États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Enseignement -- Réforme -- Arizona (États-Unis) -- 1945-1990
Mouvement chicano -- Arizona (États-Unis)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780816529841 (hardback). - ISBN 0816529841 (hardback)
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