Randy J Ontiveros
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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....