In the spirit of a new people
Subtitle: the cultural politics of the Chicano movement
By: Randy J. Ontiveros
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780814738849; 9780814738771
Subjects: Politics and government; Mexican Americans; Social movements in art; Social conditions; Mexican American art; Chicano movement
Description: "Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, In the Spirit of a New People brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in the twenty-first. Randy J. Ontiveros explores the ways in which Chicano/a artists and activists used fiction, poetry, visual arts, theater, and other expressive forms to forge a common purpose and to challenge inequality in America. Focusing on cultural politics, Ontiveros reveals neglected stories about the Chicano movement and its impact: how writers used the street press to push back against the network news; how visual artists such as Santa Barraza used painting, installations, and mixed media to challenge racism in mainstream environmentalism; how El Teatro Campesino's innovative "actos," or short skits, sought to embody new, more inclusive forms of citizenship; and how Sandra Cisneros and other Chicana novelists broadened the narrative of the Chicano movement. In the Spirit of a New People articulates a fresh understanding of how the Chicano movement contributed to the social and political currents of postwar America, and how the movement remains meaningful today. Randy J. Ontiveros is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate in U.S. Latina/o Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: The art and history of the Chicano movement; title: Antennas and mimeograph machines: Postwar mass media and the Chicano/a Street Press; title: Green Aztlán: environmentalism and the Chicano/a visual arts; title: Immigrant Actos: citizenship and performance in El Teatro Campesino; title: After words: Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo and the evolution of Chicano/a cultural politics.