In the Spirit of a New People The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement

Name: In the Spirit of a New People The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement
Price: 9.38 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780814738771

ISBN-10: 081473877X

ISBN-13: 9780814738771

Edition: 2013

Authors: Randy J. Ontiveros

List price: $30.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $30.60

Marketplace

4 new & used from $9.38

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, In the Spirit of a New People brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in the twenty-first. Randy J. Ontiveros explores the ways in which Chicano/a artists and activists used fiction, poetry, visual arts, theater, and other expressive forms to forge a common purpose and to challenge inequality in America. Focusing on cultural politics, Ontiveros reveals neglected stories about the Chicano movement and its impact: how writers used the street press to push back against the network news; how visual artists such as Santa Barraza used painting,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 241
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Randy J. Ontiveros is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate in U.S. Latina/o Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Art and History of the Chicano Movement



Antennas and Mimeograph Machines: Postwar Mass Media and the Chicano/a Street Press



Green Aztlï¿½n: Environmentalism and the Chicano/a Visual Arts



Immigrant Actos: Citizenship and Performance in El Teatro Campesino



After Words: Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo and the Evolution of Chicano/a Cultural Politics


Notes


Index


About the Author