Mythohistorical Interventions

The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies

Bibliographic Data

ID19909192
AuthorsLee Bebout (corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-25
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMythohistorical interventions (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/9780816676811
OpenAlexW4231264976
Open LibraryOL37388273M
ISBN9780816676811
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This book explores how myth and history impacted the social struggle of the Chicano movement and the postmovement years. Drawing on archival materials and political speeches as well as music and protest poetry, the text scrutinizes the ideas that emerged from the effort to organize and legitimize the Chicano movement’s aims. Examining the deployment of the Aztec eagle by the United Farm Workers union, the poem Yo Soy Joaquín, the document El Plan de Santa Barbara, and icons like La Malinche and La Virgen de Guadalupe, the book reveals the centrality of culture to the Chicano movement. The active implementation of cultural narrative was strategically significant in several ways. First, it allowed disparate movement participants to imagine themselves as part of a national, and nationalist, community of resistance. Second, Chicano use of these narratives contested the images that fostered Anglo-American hegemony

Aesthetics · Art · Hegemony · Humanities · Literature · Movement (music) · Mythology · Narrative · Nationalism · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Chicano movement · Ethnic identity · Feminism · Lesbians · Mexican American lesbians · Mexican american women · Mexican Americans · Social conditions · Study and teaching · united states

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