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Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other revolutionaries, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico and Latin America from 1971 to 1979. Drawing on fifteen years of interviews and archival research, including examinations of declassified government documents from Mexico, this study uncovers encounters between activists and artists across borders while sharing a socialist-oriented, anticapitalist vision. In discussions ranging from the Nuevo Teatro Popular movement across Latin America to the Revolutionary Proletariat Party of America in Mexico and the Peronista Youth organizers in Argentina, Alan Eladio Gómez brings to light the transnational nature of leftist organizing by people of Mexican descent in the United States, tracing an array of festivals, assemblies, labor strikes, clandestine organizations, and public protests linked to an international movement of solidarity against imperialism. Taking its title from the “greater Mexico” designation used by Américo Paredes to describe the present and historical movement of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanas/os back and forth across the US-Mexico border, this book analyzes the radical creativity and global justice that animated “Greater Mexico” leftists during a pivotal decade. While not all the participants were of one mind politically or personally, they nonetheless shared an international solidarity that was enacted in local arenas, giving voice to a political and cultural imaginary that circulated throughout a broad geographic terrain while forging multifaceted identities. The epilogue considers the politics of going beyond solidarity.

Chicano movement. --- Social movements --- Solidarity --- Radicalism --- Mexican Americans --- Political aspects --- Politics and government --- History --- Latin America --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Cooperation --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- Chicano movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements

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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, installations, and mixed media to challenge racism in mainstream environmentalism; how El Teatro Campesino’s innovative “actos,” or short skits,sought to embody new, more inclusive forms of citizenship; and how Sandra Cisneros and other Chicana novelists broadened the narrative of the Chicano movement. In the Spirit of a New People articulates a fresh understanding of how the Chicano movement contributed to the social and political currents of postwar America, and how the movement remains meaningful today.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Social movements in art. --- Mexican American art. --- Mexican Americans --- Chicano movement. --- Art, Mexican American --- Ethnic art --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- Chicano movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- United States --- Social conditions

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Chicano civil rights movement --- Chicano movement --- Chicano's in de literatuur --- Chicanos dans la littérature --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- American literature --- Mexican American literature (Spanish) --- Mexican Americans --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Chicano literature (Spanish) --- Spanish literature --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Civil rights movements --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Mexican American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Ethnic identity --- Historiography --- Mexican American authors --- Mexican American literature [Spanish ] --- Ruiz de Burton, Maria Amparo --- Rivera, Tomas --- Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez

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The many lenses of racism through which the white imagination sees Mexicans and Chicanos Historically, ideas of whiteness and Americanness have been built on the backs of racialized communities. The legacy of anti-Mexican stereotypes stretches back to the early nineteenth century when Anglo-American settlers first came into regular contact with Mexico and Mexicans. The images of the Mexican Other as lawless, exotic, or non-industrious continue to circulate today within US popular and political culture. Through keen analysis of music, film, literature, and US politics, Whiteness on the Border demonstrates how contemporary representations of Mexicans and Chicano/as are pushed further to foster the idea of whiteness as Americanness. Illustrating how the ideologies, stories, and images of racial hierarchy align with and support those of fervent US nationalism, Lee Bebout maps the relationship between whiteness and American exceptionalism. He examines how renderings of the Mexican Other have expressed white fear, and formed a besieged solidarity in anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Moreover, Whiteness on the Border elucidates how seemingly positive representations of Mexico and Chicano/as are actually used to reinforce investments in white American goodness and obscure systems of racial inequality. Whiteness on the Border pushes readers to consider how the racial logic of the past continues to thrive in the present.

Mexican Americans --- Mexicans --- Whites --- Mexican Americans in popular culture --- Chicano movement. --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Racism --- Mental stereotypes --- Stereotype (Psychology) --- Stereotyping (Social psychology) --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Rigidity (Psychology) --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- Chicano movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements --- Popular culture --- Ethnology --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Race identity. --- United States --- Mexico --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Race relations. --- Race question --- White persons --- Caucasian race --- White people

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In 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns’s conscience and six months later he was leading the first sit-in west of the Mississippi River. No Color Is My Kind, first published in 1997, introduced readers to Stearns, including his work as a civil rights leader and lawyer in Houston’s desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963. This remarkable and important history, however, was nearly lost to bipolar affective disorder. Stearns was a fifty-two-year-old patient in a Galveston psychiatric hospital when Thomas Cole first met him in 1984. Over the course of a decade, Cole and Stearns slowly recovered the details of Stearns’s life before his slide into mental illness, writing a story that is more relevant today than ever. In this new edition, Cole fills in the gaps between the late 1990s and now, providing an update on the progress of civil rights in Houston and Stearns himself. He also reflects on his tumultuous and often painful collaboration with Stearns, challenging readers to be part of his journey to understand the struggles of a Black man’s complex life. At once poignant, tragic, and emotionally charged, No Color Is My Kind is essential reading as the current movement for racial reconciliation gathers momentum.

Civil rights movements --- History --- Stearns, Eldrewey. --- Cole, Thomas R., --- Houston (Tex.) --- Race relations. --- Houston, mental illness, desegregation, Texas history, race in America, civil rights movement, civil rights leader, desegregation movement, bipolar disorder, civil rights.