TY - JOUR
AU1 - Bebout, Lee
AB - Book Review Aztlán Arizona: Mexican American educational empowerment, 1968–1978 Darius V. Echeverría University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 2014, 200pp., $55.00, ISBN: 978-0816529841 (hardcover) Latino Studies (2015) 13, 564–566. doi:10.1057/lst.2015.35 In recent years, there has been a remarkable and central to community uplift. Aztlán Arizona growth in historical scholarship examining the explores how Chicano high-school and college Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. students used both reformist and confronta- Unlike earlier scholarship, these works have tional tactics to achieve greater curricular inclu- gone beyond the “great man” and “internal sion, more ethnic Mexican faculty and support colonial” paradigms to expose the disparate and staff, as well as other changes that would localized nature of el movimiento from Texas to increase Chicano graduation goals, which California. Before Darius Echeverría’s Aztlán would work to remedy years of segregation Arizona, however, little has been written about and other forms of discriminatory practices. The first two chapters offer a historical back- Chicano activism in Arizona, making the state an “academic Siberia” within the field (6). Of ground to Arizona anti-Mexican racism and course, with the rise of governmental and militia school segregation practices. Like in other parts border policing, as well as 
TI - Aztlán Arizona: Mexican American educational empowerment, 1968–1978
JF - Latino Studies
DO - 10.1057/lst.2015.35
DA - 2015-12-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/aztl-n-arizona-mexican-american-educational-empowerment-1968-1978-AAfymuDSPn
SP - 564
EP - 566
VL - 13
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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