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Building new roads to liberation: a growing critique of Chicana/o Studies and the Chicano movement is leading to some genuine breakthroughs and new ideas about how to learn from the past and build on it.
As movement activists and intellectuals seek new strategies for transforming U.S. society, people of color have been facing a special set of challenges. The challenges take us back to the '60s and forward to new approaches, together with the ideological development they require.
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Thinking in new ways, for example, about what Black Power meant then and means now is no small challenge. One symptom: five books published in the last five years discussing the work of Amiri Baraka and Black Power. The brown version of that challenge--call it Chicano Power, or Chicanismo--is at least as complicated.
In the 1960s, "Chicano" was ...
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