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How do people acquire political consciousness, and how does that consciousness transform their behavior? This question launched the scholarly career of David Montejano, whose masterful explorations of the Mexican American experience produced the award-winning books Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986, a sweeping outline of the changing relations between the two peoples, and Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981, a concentrated look at how a social movement “from below” began to sweep away the last vestiges of the segregated social-political order in San Antonio and South Texas. Now in Sancho’s Journal, Montejano revisits the experience that set him on his scholarly quest—“hanging out” as a participant-observer with the South Side Berets of San Antonio as the chapter formed in 1974. Sancho’s Journal presents a rich ethnography of daily life among the “batos locos” (crazy guys) as they joined the Brown Berets and became associated with the greater Chicano movement. Montejano describes the motivations that brought young men into the group and shows how they learned to link their individual troubles with the larger issues of social inequality and discrimination that the movement sought to redress. He also recounts his own journey as a scholar who came to realize that, before he could tell this street-level story, he had to understand the larger history of Mexican Americans and their struggle for a place in U.S. society. Sancho’s Journal completes that epic story.
Mexican Americans --- Chicano movement --- History --- Politics and government --- San Antonio (Tex.) --- Race relations --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements --- Villa de San Fernando (Tex.) --- Villa Capital de San Fernando (Tex.) --- San Antonio de Béjar (Tex.) --- San Fernando de Béjar (Tex.) --- San Antonio de Béxar (Tex.) --- Béxar (Tex.) --- Béxar (Mexico) --- San Antonio de Béxar (Mexico) --- San Antonio de Béjar (Mexico)
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Jacqueline Woodson is een van de weinige auteurs die ongeveer alle (kinder)literatuurprijzen gewonnen heeft. Recent won ze de Hans Christian Andersen Award, ook wel bekend als de ?Nobelprijs voor de kinderliteratuur?. In haar bekendste werk, Brown Girl Dreaming, deelt Woodson in vrije vers haar ervaring over hoe het is om als African American op te groeien in het Amerika van de jaren zestig en zeventig. Een toegankelijke en emotioneel geladen stem van een kinderziel op zoek naar een plek in de wereld.https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/volt/boek/brown-girl-dreaming/
American literature --- Black lives matter --- Verenigde staten --- Autobiografie --- Jeugd (levensfase) --- Zwarte mensen --- New York (stad) --- Civil Rights Movement --- Slavernij --- Poëzie --- Emotie --- Jeugdboeken 13-16 jaar
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religion --- spirituality --- African-American life --- slave trade --- African American religious leaders --- the Civil Rights movement --- mainstream Christian denominations --- Islam --- the Black Muslims --- Voodoo --- mystic religions
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Chicano movement --- Mexican Americans --- Community activists --- Mexican American women --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Political activists --- Chicanas --- Women, Mexican American --- Women --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements --- Chicago. --- Social conditions --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Pilsen (Chicago, Ill.) --- Pilsen Village (Chicago, Ill.) --- Chikago (Ill.) --- Chikaho (Ill.) --- City of Chicago (Ill.) --- Shiḳago (Ill.) --- Čikago (Ill.) --- شيكاغو (Ill.) --- Shīkāghū (Ill.) --- Çikaqo (Ill.) --- Чыкага (Ill.) --- Chykaha (Ill.) --- Чикаго (Ill.) --- Shikááʼgóó (Ill.) --- Σικάγο (Ill.) --- Sikago (Ill.) --- Kikako (Ill.) --- שיקגו (Ill.) --- Sicagum (Ill.) --- Chicagia (Ill.) --- Chiagum (Ill.) --- Čikāga (Ill.) --- シカゴ (Ill.) --- شکاگو (Ill.) --- Shikāgū (Ill.) --- Kyekago (Ill.) --- Tchicago (Ill.) --- שיקאגא (Ill.) --- Čėkaga (Ill.) --- 芝加哥 (Ill.) --- Zhijiage (Ill.)
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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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"This book explores the life of Reies Lopez Tijerina, with a particular focus on the FBI's treatment of him and his family"--
Mexican Americans --- Civil rights workers --- Fugitives from justice --- Chicano movement --- Land grants --- History. --- Land tenure --- History --- Tijerina, Reies. --- Alianza Federal de las Mercedes. --- United States. --- New Mexico --- Ethnic relations --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Grants, Land --- Land patents --- Patents (Land grants) --- Colonization --- Public lands --- Brown power movement (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Chicano civil rights movement --- El Movimiento (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Mexican-American civil rights movement --- Movimiento, El (Chicano civil rights movement) --- Civil rights movements --- Fugitives from the law --- Criminals --- Civil rights activists --- Race relations reformers --- Social reformers --- López Tijerina, Reies --- Federal Alliance of Land Grants --- FBI --- FBR --- Federal Bureau of Investigation (U.S.) --- Federalʹnoe bi︠u︡ro rassledovaniĭ v SShA --- Nuevo México --- Nuevo Méjico --- Nuebo México --- Departamento del Nuevo Mejico
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In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed "Sisterhood is powerful," and women's historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach-acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally powerful-women's historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. Some essays uncover little-known aspects of women's history, while others offer a fresh take on familiar events and figures, from Rosa Parks to Take Back the Night marches. Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, these essays vividly convey the long histories and ongoing relevance of topics ranging from women's immigration to incarceration, from acts of cross-dressing to the activism of feminist mothers. This volume thus not only untangles the threads of the sisterhood mythos, it weaves them into a multi-textured and multi-hued tapestry that reflects the breadth and diversity of U.S. women's history.
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Civil rights --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Civil rights movements --- United States --- History --- 20th century --- Seventh-Day Adventists --- Doctrines --- Political activity --- Christianity and politics --- Seventh-day Adventism --- the Civil Rights Movement --- religion --- African Americans
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Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America's first black anthropologists and the first tenured African American professor at a predominantly white university, produced work that had tangible and lasting effects on public policy, including contributions to Brown v. Board of Education, the federal Head Start program, and school testing practices. Yet Davis remains largely absent from the historical record. For someone who generated such an extensive body of work this marginalization is particularly surprising. But it is also revelatory. In The Lost Black Scholar, David A. Varel tells Davis's compelling story, showing how a combination of institutional racism, disciplinary eclecticism, and iconoclastic thinking effectively sidelined him as an intellectual. A close look at Davis's career sheds light not only on the racial politics of the academy but also the costs of being an innovator outside of the mainstream. Equally important, Varel argues that Davis exemplifies how black scholars led the way in advancing American social thought. Even though he was rarely acknowledged for it, Davis refuted scientific racism and laid bare the environmental roots of human difference more deftly than most of his white peers, by pushing social science in bold new directions. Varel shows how Davis effectively helped to lay the groundwork for the civil rights movement.
African American anthropologists --- African American college teachers --- African American educators --- African American scholars --- Davis, Allison, --- University of Chicago --- Brown v. Board of Education. --- Head Start. --- Jim Crow. --- University of Chicago. --- civil rights movement. --- class. --- inequality. --- intelligence testing. --- race. --- racism.
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Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal claims made for rights can put them at odds with the revealed truths from which religions derive their authority. Many people's sense of human worth and dignity nevertheless depends on recognising the divine in each of us. Where rights and revelation diverge, how can the differences be negotiated? How should we measure individual claims to freedom against the demands of religious traditions? In this volume, eminent theologians and anthropologists set out the terms of religion's holds on its own truths, while historians, philosophers, and activists set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. Their respondents join the debate with fierce conviction, indicating their doubts and concerns in relation to the often compatible but sometimes competing claims of religion and rights.
Human rights --- Religious tolerance. --- Religious aspects. --- American slave communities. --- Christian experience. --- Islam. --- Oxford Amnesty Lectures. --- Pentecost. --- Roman Catholic tradition. --- Simon Schama. --- United States. --- Western liberal democracy. --- biblical inspiration. --- civil rights movement. --- human religion. --- human rights. --- moral progress. --- pluralism. --- universalisation.