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George MariscalPublication Details
BookUniversity of New Mexico Press2005Availability
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Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun is a new study of the Chicano/a movement, El Movimiento, and its multiple ideologies from a broad cultural perspective. Mariscal outlines the social and political conditions that made El Movimiento possible, especially the Cold War, U.S. military interventions, the Black Civil Rights movement, and anti-colonial struggles in the so-called Third World. He traces the ideological uses of the image of Cesar Chavez as a touchstone for debate within El Movimiento and explains how some activists such as Reies L (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Mexican Americans — Civil rights — History — 20th century
- Mexican Americans — Politics and government — 20th century
- Mexican Americans — Ethnic identity
- Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century
- Civil rights workers — United States — History — 20th century
- Political activists — United States — History — 20th century
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — United States
- United States — Ethnic relations — History — 20th century
- United States — Social conditions — 1960-1980
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- "Through a smoking glass darkly"
- "Revolutionaries have no race"
- "Tu querida presencia"
- "Nonviolence is the only weapon"
- "Brown and black together (as long as the sun and the moon shall shine)"
- "To demand that the university work for our people."
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- 0826338054
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