Chicano studies : the genesis of a discipline / / Michael Soldatenko

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953491503321
• Autore: Soldatenko Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-8165-9953-X; 1-299-19212-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 276 p
• Disciplina: 305.868/72073
• Soggetti: Mexican Americans - Study and teaching; Ethnology - Study and teaching; Minorities - Study and teaching
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Genesis of Academic Chicano Studies, 1967 - 1970: Utopia and the Emergence of Chicano Studies -- 2. Empirics and Chicano Studies: The Formation of Empirical Chicano Studies, 1970 - 1975 -- 3. Perspectivist Chicano Studies, 1967 - 1982 -- 4. Chicano Studies as an Academic Discipline, 1975 - 1982 -- 5. Chicanas, the Chicano Student Movements, and Chicana Thought, 1967 - 1982 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Chicano Studies is a comparatively new academic discipline.Unlike well-established fields of study that long ago codified their canons and curricula, the departments of Chicano Studies that exist today on U.S.college and university campuses are less than four decades old.