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Author Bebout, Lee

Title Mythohistorical interventions : the Chicano movement and its legacies / Lee Bebout
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical American studies series
Critical American studies series.
Contents Introduction : mythohistorical interventions at the intersection of American studies and Chicana/o studies -- Locating the mythohistorical : three tales in the struggle for hegemony -- Hero making in el movimiento : Reies López Tijerina and the Chicano nationalist imaginary -- Of mothers and revolucionarias : movement Chicanas fashioning a feminism of their own -- Queer genealogies : Chicana lesbian feminism & the post-movement era -- Conclusion : echoes of el movimiento and other mythohistorical interventions
Summary "Mythohistorical Interventions" 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, Lee Bebout scrutinizes the ideas that emerged from the effort to organize and legitimize the Chicano movement's aims
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index
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Subject Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Mexican American women -- Ethnic identity
Chicano movement.
Feminism -- United States
Mexican American lesbians -- Social conditions
Mexican Americans -- Study and teaching.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Chicano movement
Feminism
Mexican American women -- Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans -- Study and teaching
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816676811
081667681X
9781452946917
1452946914