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 Learn more about Chicano in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A Chicano is an Americann with Mexican heritage.
Chicano is deemed to be offensive by some Mexican-Americans, preferring other identities such as Hispanic, Latino, or even Spanish (Castellano).
In any case, the term was adopted by Chicano social rights activists in the 1960s as a political, positive term.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ch/chicano.html   (365 words)

  
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That many in the academic community accepted Muro as Chicano is attested to by the fact that many of his works are still in vogue in Chicano Studies classes and anthologies.
Chicano literature can only be written by Chicanos, for only Chicanos understand the nuance of the Chicano way of life from a living/feeling/existential/experiential perspective-others can write about how they observe us, but they cannot possibly know why and how we valuate life, for that is a cultural/linguistic process.
What makes Chicano literature Chicano is the fact that it is created by Chicanos and expresses the way Chicanos see not only their lives, but the lives of other people.
www.dr-ricardo-sanchez.com /hechizosintro.html   (2858 words)

  
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On February 7, 1997, the Chicano Studies Library at UC Berkeley became part of the new Ethnic Studies Library, a consolidation of the three libraries in the Ethnic Studies Department.
This specialized database for Chicano reference was created in-house by our library and it strives to identify in one source all types of material about Chicanos and to provide uniform subject access to this large and ever-growing body of literature.
The list is punctuated by recommendation ratings by the members of the professional library organization that compiled it.
latino.sscnet.ucla.edu /library/csl1/csl/eslpubli.html   (1570 words)

  
 Poets&Writers, Inc.
U.S. poets who have not published a book of poems over 40 pages in an edition of over 500 copies are eligible.
Poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers who are 18 years of age or older and are not enrolled as full-time students in a field related to literary arts are eligible.
Women poets and creative nonfiction writers who are citizens of the U.S. or Canada are eligible for the June deadline.
www.pw.org /mag/0505/deadlines.htm   (5638 words)

  
 Annotation List C
A chronological listing of births, deaths, events, and works of British literature indicating "...the extent of literary activity and literary related events in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales during a specific year, decade, or century." (Introduction) Coverage is from 516 A.D. to 1979.
Lists, in one alphabet, places of the world, giving variant spellings, pronunciation, population, geographical and political location, altitude, trade, industry, agriculture, climate, relief, and history.
Lists and indexes all public bills and resolutions of general interest and reports their progress from introduction to final disposition.
www.library.cornell.edu /olinuris/ref/greencards/C.htm   (14698 words)

  
 97.01.01: Chicano and Puerto Rican Literature
Chicano literature can be defined as “the literature written since 1848 by Americans of Mexican descent or Mexicans in the USA who write about the Mexican-American experience.” (1) Chicano literature is in a constant state of flux because it draws from the people living here and the migration of others across the border.
In general, Chicano literature can be defined as the expression of a culture that has grown despite the odds of oppression in the USA.
Chicano writings are characterized by their identity, that is of being in the middle of the American and Mexican cultures whereas the Puerto Rican writers stress their direct links to the island.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/1/97.01.01.x.html   (2502 words)

  
 JOSE MONTOYA PAPERS - GUIDE-CEMA California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
José Montoya is one of the premiere cultural activists in the Chicano movement.
Montoya co-founded one of the ground-breaking Chicano Art Collections in 1970, a group that came to be known as the Royal Chicano Air Force.
Montoya's influence over several generations of Chicano poets cannot be underestimated.
cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu /montoya_bio.html   (379 words)

  
 UNLV Libraries: Find Articles and More
Bibliographic citations from items listed in the table of contents from more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Includes biographical information about poets and some commentary on well-known poems, as well as a glossary, a subject index, and indexes of first and last lines.
Listing of maps in the journal Domus, from 1986 onward, by MIT Architecture Librarian Michael Leineger.
www.library.unlv.edu /search/eralpha.php   (10448 words)

  
 Chicano/Latino Studies Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
Several Mexican, Cuban, and Chicano visual artists and two performing artists are interviewed, and their work is discussed with particular reference to the image of the bleeding heart, which has been a significant symbol throughout centuries of Latin American culture.
A "docu-comedy", this film follows the Chicano comedy trio Culture Clash on a whimsical journey in search of the mythical Aztlan, the ancient homeland of the Aztec people believed by many to be located somewhere in the southwestern United States, using a map they've discovered and riding in a 1952 lowrider Chevy.
Recounts the experiences of five Chicano soldiers, whose first journey outside the cotton fields of their hometown of Corcoran, California was to the war-ripped rice paddies of Vietnam.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/LatinoVid.html   (11732 words)

  
 YOLANDA M. LOPEZ PAPERS-CEMA California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Underneath the picture, text lists poets and music, ticket prices, where tickets can be purchased, and location of events.
The center portrait is titled, "Portrait of the Artist as the Virgen de Guadalupe." There is a picture of young Chicana woman in a pink dress with white lining and white running shoes, running, holding a snake in her left hand.
Underneath her left foot, the one which is on the ground, lies a Chicano baby with red, white, and blue wings, dressed in a red coat.
cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu /lopez_con.html   (1880 words)

  
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Lists monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world.
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 The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry [Five Volumes] — www.greenwood.com
Written for students and general readers at a time when poetry is central to the curriculum, this set covers material from the colonial era to the present and gives special attention to contemporary poets and their works.
It also devotes considerable attention to women poets and to poets who are beginning to establish their reputations.
Highlights the work of poets who are just beginning to establish their reputations.
www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR2381.aspx   (476 words)

  
 Reference Round Table - Minority Reference Sources- 1982
Chicano Studies Center, University of California at Los Angeles, 1976.
LC 81-178905 This is the work to consult if you wish to know the names, locations, con- tact persons and other pertinent information, such as collection scope, of the many bibliographic services that concentrate their efforts on the Hispanic.
Listed in this work are Chicano office holders and party leaders at the local, state, and federal levels for the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.
www.txla.org /groups/rrt/docs/minbib.html   (3270 words)

  
 Chicano/a Studies / UTSA Library Subject Guide
The Chicano Studies Library Serial Collection is a set of 577 microfilms which contain numerous Chicano periodicals, journals, newsletters and journals published throughout the United States during the years 1855 to 1995.
This comprehensive group of periodicals was gathered by the Chicano Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
A list of journals indexed in HAPI is in front of the paper edition or under "Journals" in online edition.
www.lib.utsa.edu /Research/Subject/chicanostudiesguide.html   (1114 words)

  
 An Occasional Blog From An Occasional Writer - Manuel Ramos
Because of space limitations, we list only prizes of $1,000 or more, prizes of $500 or more that charge no entry fee, and prestigious nonmonetary awards." Many of these have upcoming deadlines, so get on it if you have something to enter.
Paredes, one of the masters of Chicano research and historical preservation, collected sixty-six songs that were representative of the folksongs of the Lower Rio Grande Border from 1750-1960.
Two other excellent sources are Chicano Popular Culture: Que Hable el Pueblo, by Charles M. Tatum (University of Arizona Press, 2001), and Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends, by David R. Maciel, Isidro D. Ortiz, and MarĂ­a Herrera-Sobek (University of Arizona Press, 2000), both of which have outstanding sections or chapters on Chicano music.
manuelramos.blogspot.com   (2600 words)

  
 Chicano - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A Chicano is an American with Mexican heritage.
Mexican) - Chicano is sometimes written as "Xicano", and in Old Spanish, the letter X was pronounced as modern English /S/.
Some use the phrase "la raza de bronce", some see themselves as "brown" or "bronze" because of their Indian ancestry (as opposed to white and fl people).
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Chicano   (314 words)

  
 La Bloga
Chicano has nothing to do with The Jungle, and certainly none of the droning political proselytizing of that novel’s failed final pages.
This is not to deny the vital importance of the characters’ Mexican heritage.
Reyna Grande is the author of the forthcoming novel, "Across A Hundred Mountains." She was born in Mexico, educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently lives in LA, working on her second novel.
www.labloga.blogspot.com   (2189 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World: Books: Miguel Leon-Portilla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The poets, we learn, were frequently kings or military captains of satellite principalities to the Aztec capital; the survival of many (and often lengthy) odes or elegies in oral folk traditions for more than a generation after the Conquest gives evidence of the integrity of that hierarchical society.
The organization of the material in terms of geographic regions and individual poets is, however, problematic.
Too much of the author's effort is given over to a reconstruction of the lives of the putative authors and not enough to an analysis and appraisal of the works, deflecting the reader from the complex inner lives of the poems themselves.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0806132914?v=glance   (1176 words)

  
 Alurista Papers, 1968-1979
After teaching creative writing and Chicano literature at San Diego State University he taught at the University of Texas at Austin as a visiting lecturer in 1974.
Associated with early Chicano movement poetry, Alurista developed and expanded on mythological, cultural, and political themes, and pioneered alternating use and blending of Spanish and English languages.
Other works include two position papers: "Chicano Studies: A Future", and "Aztlán: Reality of Myth?"; and outlines written in 1971 and 1972 of discussion sessions on Chicano literature and on the continental unity of Latin America and Chicanos.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/utlac/00078/lac-00078.html   (744 words)

  
 CALS 374: Chicano/Latino Literature Assignments-Spring 2000
**All six books listed in the syllabus are required readings and should be completed in their entirety; however, read focal readings especially carefully on due dates; emphasize key topics indicated for special attention.
The centrality of the "Mother Country." Focal discussion: further influences on Chicano culture from the indigenous background and heritage--Chicano ties to Indigenism.
Valdez and the beginnings of an explosion in the Chicano arts--the Chicano Renaissance and its beginnings in 1965.
www.sonoma.edu /users/r/ramireza/c374f00/c374asn.html   (1083 words)

  
 SULAIR: Research Quick Start Guides: Chicano/Latino Studies
Coverage includes the history of Mexican immigration, effects of immigrants on the public sector, and the social and economic integration of Mexican immigrants and their U.S. born offspring.
Chicano Anthology Index: A Comprehensive Author, Title, and Subject Index to Chicano Anthologies, 1965-1987 (Web and Green Library Information Center Z1361.M4 G37 1990) The resource identifies 280 anthologies, indexing approximately 5,000 essays and other creative works published about the Chicano since 1965.Web resource incorporates the print resource
Included are a stereotype, a historical interpretation, specific nation, associated behavior or attitudes, and a list of the Hispanic actors and actresses.
www-library.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/adams/shortcu/chic.html   (2163 words)

  
 WPL AUTHOR CATALOGS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lists of real names with pen names, in these categories: abbreviated or single pseudonyms; pseudonym for multiple authors; multiple pseudonyms for an author; when a simple pseudonym makes a good sense; last name changes (usually due to marriage); and obvious contraptions or first name changes.
List of hundreds of authors, with webcat links, birthdates, town of residence/birth within Marin county, type of writing, and website links.
Lists about 15 meta-indexes of mystery authors and links to pages for over 500 individual writers of mysteries, thrillers, and suspense and crime novels.
www.waterborolibrary.org /authors.htm   (6188 words)

  
 Chicano Poet, Activist to Speak at WSU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
PULLMAN, Wash. -- Luis J. Rodriguez, a poet and activist whose work has been both celebrated and censored, will give a public reading Tuesday, March 4, at Washington State University as part of the “Who Speaks for America?” Series.
Rodriguez has received awards from Sundance; Lila Wallace; the California and Illinois art councils; and PEN, a fellowship of writers working to advance literature, promote a culture of reading and defend free expression.
Presented by the Department of Comparative American Cultures, the goal of the speaker program is to bring accomplished poets, writers and activists to share diverse views with residents of the Palouse and the students, faculty and staff at WSU.
www.wsunews.wsu.edu /detail.asp?StoryID=3683   (179 words)

  
 CHICANA AND CHICANO STUDIES DEPARTMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A study of the origin and development of Chicana and Chicano organizations such as the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and La Raza Unida Party (LRUP), and their role in the electoral process and in the development of the Chicana/o Community.
A study of the interaction between the Chicano Community and the educational and social institutions of the dominant society.
Topics such as institutional racism, segregation, and abuse of authority will be analyzed along with a focus on the Chicano community's organized attempts to advocate for their values and interests.
www.csun.edu /search/cat9698/ChicanaoStudies.htm   (4524 words)

  
 Chicano Perk - café y cultura   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We are an alternative bilingual space that caters to the unique needs of the Chicano Community by tailoring our menu in Spanglish and doing business conscientiously in the Barrio.
We are owned and operated by Chicanos con conciencia.
Chicano Perk café y cultura has become a hub for community organizing, progressive thinking, artistic expression and courageous conversations.
www.chicanoperk.com /events.html   (1037 words)

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