Chicana Movidas

New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Author: Dionne Espinoza
Secondary Author: María Eugenia Cotera
ISBN: 9781477315590

With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activisim and Feminism in the Movement Era demonstrate how Chicanas enacted a new kind of politica at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and developed innovative concepts, tactics, and methodologies that in turn generated new theories, art forms, organizational spaces, and strategies of alliance.These are the technologies of resistance documented in Chicana Movidas, a volume that brings together critical biographies of Chicana activists and their bodies of work; essays that focus on understudied organizations, mobilizations, regions, and subjects; examinations of emergent Chicana archives and the politics of collection; and scholar

Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publish Date: 2018-06-01

Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, History / United States / 20th Century, History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Feminism), Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Feminism)