salmonrojo
¡Poesía está en la calle!
Resistencia Bookstore
casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St.
Austin, Texas
(512) 416-8885
revolu@swbell.net
Oct 6th, 2011 @ 4:06 pm
chicanapowerflyer (by salmonrojo)
6pm, Monday, October 10, 2011
Red Salmon Arts presents a book reading & signing:
¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
with Chicana scholar/activists Maylei Blackwell and Anna NietoGomez
¡Chicana Power! is the first book-length study of women’s involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. The book tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. It highlights the work of pioneering Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez and the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, one of the first Latina feminist organizations, who together with other Chicana activists forged an autonomous space for women’s political participation and challenged the gendered confines of Chicano nationalism in the movement and in the formation of the field of Chicana studies.
Maylei Blackwell, Assistant Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Women’s Studies at UCLA, uncovers the multifaceted vision of liberation that continues to reverberate today as contemporary activists, artists, and intellectuals, both grassroots and academic, struggle for, revise, and rework the political legacy of Chicana feminism.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at UT Austin.
