TY - BOOK AU - Ontiveros,Randy J. TI - In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement T2 - American Literatures Initiative SN - 9780814738887 AV - E184.M5 O58 2016 U1 - 973.046872 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New York, NY : PB - New York University Press, KW - Chicano movement KW - Mexican American art KW - Mexican Americans KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Social movements in art KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Art and History of the Chicano Movement --; 1. Antennas and Mimeograph Machines: Postwar Mass Media and the Chicano/a Street Press --; 2. Green Aztlán: Environmentalism and the Chicano/a Visual Arts --; 3. Immigrant Actos: Citizenship and Performance in El Teatro Campesino --; 4. After Words: Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo and the Evolution of Chicano/a Cultural Politics --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access N2 - Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, In the Spirit of a New People brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in the twenty-first. Randy J. Ontiveros explores the ways in which Chicano/a artists and activists used fiction, poetry, visual arts, theater, and other expressive forms to forge a common purpose and to challenge inequality in America.Focusing on cultural politics, Ontiveros reveals neglected stories about the Chicano movement and its impact: how writers used the street press to push back against the network news; how visual artists such as Santa Barraza used painting, installations, and mixed media to challenge racism in mainstream environmentalism; how El Teatro Campesino’s innovative “actos,” or short skits,sought to embody new, more inclusive forms of citizenship; and how Sandra Cisneros and other Chicana novelists broadened the narrative of the Chicano movement. In the Spirit of a New People articulates a fresh understanding of how the Chicano movement contributed to the social and political currents of postwar America, and how the movement remains meaningful today UR - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814738849.001.0001 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814738887 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814738887/original ER -