In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement

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121, 136; definition of, 2, 334n2; environmentalism and, 88, 101–2, 125–26, 129–30; historical memory and, 2, 14, 16; Renaissance, 119, 121–22, 125, 194; social movements and, 39, 43, 139–40; society and, 33, 39, 121–22 Asco, 34 Asian Americans, 52, 133–34, 140 Asociación Nacional México-Americana (ANMA), 51 August Twenty-Ninth Movement, 57 Aztlán: African Americans and, 123; environmentalism, 88, 158; feminism, 174, 187–88; immigration and, 155; nationalism and, 24, 26, 175, 179–80; Native Americans and, 107; origins of, 95–98 Baca, Judy, 35, 88, 107, 111 Barraza, Santa: biography, 108–9; Black Madonna (1991–1992), 122–23, 124; Coatlicue (1986), 117, 119; Emma Tenayuca Codex (1993), 117–21; environmentalism, 40, 85, 88–89, 125; feminism, 109, 111–12, 117; indigenous themes, 107, 112–17, 119–30; Los Migrantes (1972), 109–10; Nepantla, 126–30; Renacimiento/Rebirth (1980), 112–14, 116, 117; Retablo of Mestizaje Codex (1991), 115–17, 122; Soldaderas (1972), 109 Acosta, Oscar Zeta, 24, 83, 173, 201n74, 206n29; The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972), 201n74; Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), 24, 201n74 affirmative action, 13, 18, 19, 42, 173 Africa, 122, 123, 141 African Americans: Chicano/Latino relations with, 5, 13, 16, 51, 72–73, 122–23, 175, 199n37, 204n11; civil rights movement, 2, 13, 16, 28, 48–49, 62–63, 199n37, 220n88; inequality, 11–12, 42. See also under Aztlán; environmentalism; network news agricultural industry: contractors, 151–54; corporatization of, 145, 153, 156, 163–64, 220n72; environmental damage, 156; “ethnic succession,” 145–46, 166 Alianza Federal de Mercedes. See Hispanos Alicia, Juana, 88, 98, 107 Alinsky, Saul, 52, 201n74 Alurista, 24, 96–98 Anzaldúa, Gloria: activism of, 21, 32; Chicano movement and, 2, 171; environmentalism, 87; impact, 129, 222n7; indigenous thought and, 120, 128–29; This Bridge Called My Back, 2, 128 Arab Americans, 41, 195, 226n49 art: Byzantine, 121; Chicano movement and, 2, 14, 32–33, 35–36; classical, Index 228 / index 12–14, 33, 46, 51–52; violence and, 56–57, 62–63, 100; visual arts, 104–6 Chicano/a press: cultural nationalism, 39, 68, 77–80, 84; historical precedents, 71, 80; mass media and, 46, 67–70, 81, 85; production values, 79, 83–84 Chicano/a studies, 6, 35–38, 170. See also higher education Chicano Youth Liberation Conference (1969), 24, 45, 66, 96, 174, 177, 178 Chumacero, Olivia, 147 Cisneros, Sandra: Caramelo (2002), 172, 181–96; Chicano movement and, 32, 41, 171, 196; education, 174; feminism, 32, 41, 182, 184, 185, 191, 196; House on Mango Street (1984), 172, 174, 181, 222n9; transnational politics of, 41, 191, 195–96; Woman Hollering Creek, 174 Cold War, 28, 69, 133, 177, 180, 205n15 Comisión Femenil Mexican (Mexican Women’s Commission), 71, 188 Communism: Chicano movement and, 23, 64, 175, 210n100; El Teatro Campesino, 154, 161, 164; multiethnic activism and, 72–73, 180. See also conservatives: anti-communism; Tenayuca, Emma: Communist Party Community Service Organization (CSO), 51, 52 Compean, Mario, 109 Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos (Mexican Worker’s Confederation), 119, 179, 180 Congreso del Pueblo de Habla Española (Congress of Spanish-Speaking Peoples), 51, 73 conservatives: anti-communism, 25, 51, 60–61, 73, 74, 133; anti-feminism, 17; Chicano movement and, 18, 28; El Teatro Campesino and, 139; former liberals, 18–19; nativism and (see immigration: nativist movements against); 1960s, responses to, 17–20, 22, 41–43; outreach to Latinos/as, 3 consumerism: citizenship and, 142–43; environmentalism and, 40, 88, 92, 105; gender and, 112–14, 207n53; Latinos/as and, 5; television and, 65–66, 69 Corona, Bert, 73, 180 counterculture, 13, 16, 23–24, 27, 58; New Mexico and, 95: “Yippie Manifesto,” 14 Brecht, Bertolt, 137, 153 Brown Berets, 160, 175, 176, 188, 223n19 Brown, Pat, 52 Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 51 Bush, George W., 18, 29, 31 Cantú, Felipe, 147, 148 Castillo, Ana, 32, 35, 171, 174, 222n9 Castro, Sal, 75 Catholicism: Chicano activism and, 23, 36; colonialism and, 122, 123, 195; rhetoric of, 10, 115; Virgin of Guadalupe, 82, 112–14, 117, 126, 183, 216n112 Cervantes, Lorna Dee, 186–87, 222n7 Chávez, César: cultural nationalism, 78; early life and career, 12, 52, 98; El Teatro Campesino, 134, 138–39, 159, 161; leadership, 36, 76, 100, 171; immigration, 133; Synanon and, 55; television and, 45–46, 52–55, 67, 205n23, 205n25 Chavez, Linda, 18–19 Chavez Ortiz, Ricardo, 58 Chicano/a environmentalism: feminism, 93–94; mainstream environmentalism and, 39–40...