El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement Born in 1965 as an organizing tool within Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union, El Teatro Campesino became the premier Chicana/o performance ensemble to emerge out of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This study demytholog....
Chicano Movementhistoric preservationDenverThe postwar urban renewal experience varied among US cities according to the result of local social contests pitting those imposing their power to transform urban space against those resisting it. In this paper, we examine the role of one such contest in ...
introducedin June of 1968 by California Congressman George E. Brown. The push to recognize the contributions of the Hispanic community had gained momentum throughout the 1960s when the civil rights movement was at its peak and there was a growing awareness of the United States' multicultural ...
an official with a Mexican American community group by the name of United Organizations Information Center.1This comment was made at a committee meeting before the Houston board of education in October 1969 and aptly reflected the Chicano community’s growing dissatisfaction with the local school dist...
Significant upward movement of mineralized water takes place in the Puebla aquifer system. Preferential groundwater flow paths related to the geological structure and the lowering of the potentiometric surface are suspected to be the prime factors for this intrusion. A combined approach of geochemical ...
The project sought to remove a poor, Hispanic neighborhood in order to build a new downtown college campus, generating community opposition from the inner city neighborhood residents, leaders of the city's Chicano Movement, and historic preservation activists. We demonstrate how resistance actively ...
The San Diego Chicano Movement and the Origins of Border Art(2016). The San Diego Chicano Movement and the Origins of Border Art. Journal of Borderlands Studies. Ahead of Print. doi: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1238314doi:10.1080/08865655.2016.1238314Ila Nicole Sheren...