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Becoming La Raza: Negotiating Race the Chican@ Movement(s)
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Becoming La Raza: Negotiating Race the Chican@ Movement(s)
Current price: $101.95
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Becoming La Raza: Negotiating Race the Chican@ Movement(s)
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Through close readings of figures, vocabularies, and visualizations of iconic texts of the Chican@ Movement—including El Plan de Delano, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales’s “I Am Joaquin,” and newspapers like
and
—Izaguirre demonstrates that la raza was never singular or unified. Instead, he reveals a racial identity that was (re)negotiated, (re)invented, and (re)circulated against a Cold War backdrop that heightened rhetorics of race across the globe and increasingly threatened Mexican American bodies in the Vietnam War. In lieu of a unified nationalist movement, Izaguirre argues that activists energized and empowered La Raza as a political community by making the Chican@ movement multivocal, global, and often aligned with whiteness.
For scholars of political movements, US history, race, or rhetoric,
will provide a valuable perspective on one of the most important civil rights movements of the twentieth century.