Chicano History

"Latinos are now the largest ethnic minority population in the United States and still they encounter a great deal of misunderstanding, prejudice, and discrimination. Utilizing a strengths-based perspective, Social Work Practice with Latinos addresses the unique needs of this diverse population.

Written by practitioners and scholars from many disciplines, this book discusses social issues of consequence to Latinos and specific strengths and risk factors of the Latino community. They then offer methods that utilize these strengths to ensure a culturally-competent approach to practice with Latino populations. Each chapter is accompanied by key questions for personal and group reflection to facilitate discussion and understanding of these vital themes.

The editors have nearly three decades of combined experience working with Latino populations inside and outside the United States. Drawing on this experience, they integrate these varied perspectives to prepare students and practitioners for practice with this richly diverse community."

legislative avenues were sought, including the Census and the courts. The 1930 Census was the only census that categorized Mexicans as a separate "race."In the context of a changing racial formation in the United States, this unique category was reversed in 1936 due to Mexican-American leaders leveraging the fragility of the "Good Neighbor Policy" to force the Federal government into action. no legislativos, incluidos el censo y las cortes. El censo de 1930 fue el único censo que categorizó a los mexicanos como una "raza" distinta. En el contexto de una formación racial cambiante en Estados Unidos, esta categoría singular fue revocada en 1936 debido a que los líderes mexicano-americanos echaron mano de la fragilidad de la "Política del Buen Vecino" para obligar al gobierno federal a entrar en acción.

Utilizing performative writing and personal narrative, this poetic essay dives into the personal and collective trauma of the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. As part of a special issue on Pulse, the co-authors (re)perform the dialogue and queer of color worldmaking that emerged from their frantic text messages to each other in the aftermath of this horrific moment in the Latinx and/or LGBTQ community. We argue that spiritual activism in the form of soul healing and radical interconnectedness is one path of many to consider for those who continue to question if their bodies matter in this political moment in culture and society.

In this article I argue the conceptualization of the multitude as a diffuse network and the attendant archipelagic metaphors in the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri as well as related Autonomous Marxist scholarship belie the vital role of identity and difference in social organizing under Empire or global capitalism. In order to energize these archipelagic metaphors and to flesh out Autonomous Marxist theory and praxis, I suggest this theory take cue from Chicana third space feminism, specifically Gloria Anzaldúa's metaphor and praxis of "bridging," which foregrounds the significance of identity and difference in contingently connecting to and moving with others in pursuit of being in common.

This article focuses on cop watching by the Brooklyn-based group El Grito de Sunset Park to provide a case study that illustrates how working-class communities
of color are integrating digital technology and media making practices into their organizing against policing, gentrifi cation, and state disinvestment of services. The
article identifi es such community media as a nodal point of resistance where local communities organize against global neoliberal forces negatively affecting them by
creating alternative modes of representation that counter dominant narratives about them and incorporating media-making practices into their collective organizing for self-determination.

This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods. By using a series of case studies, this book mobilizes historical theory and methods to underline different expressions of alternative music functioning within a mainstream musical industry. Each chapter highlights a particular theory or method while simultaneously weaving it through a genre of music expressing a notion of alternativity―an explicit positioning of one’s expression outside and counter to the mainstream. Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music seeks to fill a gap in current scholarship by offering a collection written specifically for the pedagogical and theoretical needs of those interested in the topic.

“This study of ‘insurgent’ modes of popular music in the last third of the 20th century accomplishes quite a feat.  It yokes together a wide swath of sub-genres and styles--including reggae, punk, hip hop, alternative rock and country—through the lens of what the authors are calling “historical theory,” in order to chart a different, more comprehensive pathway through the annals of pop music history.  Shonk and McClure achieve an enviable balance of accessibility and scholarly depth, making this volume ideal for introductory college courses as well as more experienced researchers seeking a quick guide to specialized topics.”

--Pamela Fox, author of Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music; co-author of Old Roots, New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music

This research aims at the characterization of the city of San Antonio, TX, and its area within an ethnolinguistic perspective. This view embraces how the city itself was conceived and its development, which type of people  arrived and dwelt in there and how they introduced their cultural features. The framework is the Spanish language, its introduction and development, its continuity or loss, all of it in connection with its users. The social meaning of the term Ethnography and the activities of the humans studied are therefore restricted to their linguistic aspects. Nevertheless, special attention is given to the cosmovision of those speakers.
Estudio realizado en el marco del Observatorio del español de los Estados Unidos, Inc., con datos demolingüísticos, encuesta en colaboración con los alumnos graduados de UTSA y reflexiones sobre el bilingüismo y la educación.

This is a Chapter proof from Martin Butler, Jens Martin Gurr, and Olaf Kaltmeier, (Eds.), EthniCities: Metropolitan Cultures and Ethnic Identities in the Americas (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier/Bilingual Press: Tempe Arizona, 2011), 67-77. If you wish to cite this work, please cite it as a "proof" or cite the published article please.  Link: https://books.google.com/books/about/Ethnicities.html?id=PvpnXwAACAAJ