What was the Chicano Movement? What is a grassroots movement? What was the goal of the Women's Rights Movement? What was the Labor Movement? What did CORE do for the Civil Rights Movement? What is the Occupy Movement? What is the controversy within the Women's March movement?
Though the movement first developed during the 1950s, amidst what historians have called the "Lavender Scare, it gained new traction during the late 1960s alongside similar radical movements for women's liberation, black power, and chicano rights. The famed Stonewall riot of 1969 is often ...
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves. —Kavita Ramdas 33 ...
In 1861, Confederate troops fired the first shots of the Civil War at Ft. Sumter in South Carolina. What followed was four years of the bloodiest war the country had ever seen as the North and South fought each other over issues of slavery and states' rights. ...
CHICANO/CHICANASomeone who is native of, or descends from, Mexico and who lives in the United States. ... The term became widely used during the Chicano Movement of the 1960s by many Mexican Americans to express a political stance founded on pride in a shared cultural, ethnic, and communit...
Patino says in the 1960s, along with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, was the rise of the Chicano movement emanating out of the west side of St. Paul. Out of that came the introduction of the Chicano Studies department of the University of Minnesota and organizations lik...
Together, the papers in this panel re-imagine social movement, comunidad, rebellion, and joy through collective, un/disciplined scholarship-in-dialogue. With a focus on sound, affect, emotion and aesthetics, we perceive unruly Latinidades and resistant grammars as modes of politics and possibility....
Dive into the ecosystem of Central and South America with scientists from the Florida Museum’s Ordway Lab and the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. Learn more with community information booths and hands-on activities from the UF chapter of the Society for Adva...
By and large, though, early releases on the Motown label were restricted to the apolitical. But the world had changed by 1971. The freedom struggle had taken a more radical turn with the emergence of the Black Power movement, the Chicano Movement, the Young Lords and the American ...
The civil rights movement is an inspiration for many people. Chicano activists in Los Angeles claim seeing African-American protesters on television made them understand they too suffered discrimination because of their skin complexion. Martin Luther King Jr., a central figure in the movement, ...