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Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Enriqueta Longeaux y Vàsquez
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-11-30 - Publisher: Arte Publico Press

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Gathers columns from the Chicano newspaper "El Grito del Norte," where the author's fierce but hopeful voice of protest combined anger and humor to stir her fel
The Women of La Raza
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Enriqueta Longeaux y Vásquez
Categories: Mexican American women
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-20 - Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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In The Women of La Raza, Enriqueta Vasquez brings together her long-time political commitments with her marvelous sense of curiosity and wonder to trace the con
Chicanas of 18th Street
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Leonard G. Ramirez
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-21 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Overflowing with powerful testimonies of six female community activists who have lived and worked in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Chicanas of 18th Street
They Called Me
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Reies Tijerina
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-30 - Publisher: Arte Publico Press

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In this autobiography, Reies López Tijerina, writes about his attempts to reclaim land grants, including his taking up arms against the authorities and spendin
In the Spirit of a New People
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Randy J. Ontiveros
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: NYU Press

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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 tw