LEADER 04771nam 2200637 450 001 9910464426103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8165-9897-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000088722 035 $a(EBL)3411874 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001135868 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11666338 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001135868 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11122552 035 $a(PQKB)10794523 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3411874 035 $a(OCoLC)876041670 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33162 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3411874 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10838886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL585261 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000088722 100 $a20140304h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAztla?n Arizona $eMexican American educational empowerment, 1968-1978 /$fDarius V. Echeverri?a 210 1$aTucson, [Arizona] :$cThe University of Arizona Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (194 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8165-2984-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Occupied Arizona: Mexican Americans and the Parameters of a Pedestrian People""; ""2. A Measure of the Marginalized Mexican American: A Scholastic Survey of Spanish-Surnamed Strangers""; ""3. Bias, Boycotts, and Battling Barriers Mexican Americans in Public Schools""; ""4. Activists of Academia: Students, Scholars, and Staffers at Arizona State University""; ""5. The Promise and Peril of Protests: Undergraduates and Underrepresentation at the University of Arizona"" 327 $a""6. A Part, Yet Apart: (Re) Arranging Academic Arizona from Hocus-Pocus to Horne"" ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $a" Aztla?n Arizona is a history of the Chicano Movement in Arizona in the 1960's and 1970's. Focusing on community and student activism in Phoenix and Tucson, Darius V. Echeverri?a ties the Arizona events to the larger Chicano and civil rights movements against the backdrop of broad societal shifts that occurred throughout the country. Arizona's unique role in the movement came from its (public) schools, which were the primary source of Chicano activism against the inequities in the judicial, social, economic, medical, political, and educational arenas. The word Aztla?n, originally meaning the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples of Mesoamerica, was adopted as a symbol of independence by Chicano/a activists during the movement of the 1960's and 1970's. In an era when poverty, prejudice, and considerable oppositional forces blighted the lives of roughly one-fifth of Arizonans, the author argues that understanding those societal realities is essential to defining the rise and power of the Chicano Movement. The book illustrates how Mexican American communities fostered a togetherness that ultimately modified larger Arizona society by revamping the educational history of the region. The concluding chapter outlines key Mexican American individuals and organizations that became politically active in order to address Chicano educational concerns. This Chicano unity, reflected in student, parent, and community leadership organizations, helped break barriers, dispel the Mexican American inferiority concept, and create educational change that benefited all Arizonans. No other scholar has examined the emergence of Chicano Movement politics and its related school reform efforts in Arizona. Echevarria's thorough research, rich in scope and interpretation, is coupled with detailed and exact endnotes. The book helps readers understand the issues surrounding the Chicano Movement educational reform and ethnic identity. Equally important, the author shows how residual effects of these dynamics are still pertinent today in places such as Tucson"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMexican Americans$xEducation$zArizona$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMexican Americans$zArizona$xPolitics and government$y20th century 606 $aChicano movement$zArizona 606 $aEducational change$zArizona$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMexican Americans$xEducation$xHistory 615 0$aMexican Americans$xPolitics and government 615 0$aChicano movement 615 0$aEducational change$xHistory 676 $a371.829/68073 700 $aEcheverri?a$b Darius V.$f1974-$0935499 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464426103321 996 $aAztla?n Arizona$92107232 997 $aUNINA