¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (Chicana Matters (Paperback))
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292726902 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. Based on rich oral histories and extensive archival research, Maylei Blackwell analyzes the struggles over gender and sexuality within the Chicano Movement and illustrates how those struggles produced new forms of racial consciousness, gender awareness, and political identities.¡Chicana Power! provides a critical genealogy of pioneering Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez and the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, one of the first Latina feminist organizations, who together with other Chicana activists forged an autonomous space for women's political participation and challenged the gendered confines of Chicano nationalism in the movement and in the formation of the fie
Michelle K. Guile said While the intentions of this book are great, the author does not follow through or deliver. While the intentions of this book are great, the author does not follow through or deliver on what she sets out to tell in the book. Way too much focus on one woman's story- not a good example of oral history and definitely not a good example of giving a voice to the voiceless or previously invisible subjects she claims to be writing for.. "powerful book" according to hollypenyo. i read this book for a women and gender studies graduate course, and it is one of my favorite books. i appreciate the author's perspectives, knowledge, and perspectives on Chicana leadership experiences.. An Interesting Documentation The Chicano movement self-destructed by attacking the Chicanas within it. If the women's perspectives and hopes had been recognized as a potent aspect to group, there would not have been the in-house problems. All interests could have been debated and pursued as being a part of the whole. The Chicano movement lost significant potential support through alienation by seeing the Chicanas' position as a threat and thinking it would dilute the cause. In effect, the Chicano movement began to be seen as representativ
In !Chicana Power!, Chicano studies professor Maylei Blackwell shines light on Mexican American women's fight for equality. "Blackwell's !Chicana Power! offers a compelling microhistory that invites readers to drill down into the 'disturbances and shifts' Blackwell seeks to make an intervention into how historians frame the Chicana/o movement, and while her focus on Chicana voices invites comparison to important works in this vein Blackwell's aim is to broaden not only the cast of characters in movement narratives but also the epistemological registers of movement historiography itself." - Signs "The Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s gained national prominence fighting discrimination against Mexican Americans, but women's contribution to the cause is frequently downplayed. Tracing the role of women in the movement's development, the book paints an illuminating picture of Chicano movement history from a feminist perspective." - NACLA Report on the Americas "This is an
MAYLEI BLACKWELL is Assistant Professor in the César E. . Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Women’s Studies at UCLA. An interdisciplinary scholar activist and oral historian, she works with indigenous women’s organizers in Mexico, Latin American feminist movements, and