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“¡LA UNIÓN HACE LA FUERZA!” (UNITY CREATES STRENGTH!)
M.E.Ch.A. AND CHICANA/O STUDENT ACTVISM IN CALIFORNIA, 1967-1999
by
Gustavo Licón
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORY)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Gustavo Licón
Object Description
| Title | “¡La unión hace la fuerza!” (unity creates strength!): M.E.Ch.A. and Chicana/o student actvism in California, 1967-1999 |
| Author | Licón, Gustavo |
| Author email | gustavol@usc.edu; gustavo_licon@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-08 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-08-07 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sanchez, George J. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kurashige, Lon Ramirez, Ricardo |
| Abstract | This dissertation is a study of Chicana and Chicano student activists’ sense of community, identity, and ideology in California MEChA from the late 1960s through the 1990s. It argues that their sense of community, identity, and ideology has evolved due to internal strife, immigration, and international solidarity. Chicana and Chicana student activists created MEChA as a network of activism dedicated to institutional reform, social justice, and Chicano liberation. Marxist-Leninism made major inroads into MEChA after the decline of Chicano Movement, but nationalism made a resurgence with the end of the Cold War. Chicanas progressively established an understanding within MEChA that Chicana and Chicano liberation also required confronting sexism and heterosexism. Chicana and Chicano student activists’ broad sense of community and social justice prompted them to stand in solidarity with Latin American immigrants and revolutionaries. Although the organization remained cultural nationalist, these influences caused it to be more internationalist and inclusive demographically, sexually, and ideologically. |
| Keyword | MEChA; M.E.Ch.A; student activism; Chicano; Chicana; Chicano movement; Chicana movement; Chicanismo; cultural nationalism; immigration; Marxism; international solidarity; civil rights; ideology; identity; race; gender; sexuality; Chicano student movement; California activism; Aztlan; Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan; ATM; CASA; LRS; Liga; sexuality; gender; new left; civil rights movement; Central American revolutions; CISPES; nativism |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Coverage date | 1967/1999 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2489 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Licón, Gustavo |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Licon-3067 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Licon-3067.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | “¡LA UNIÓN HACE LA FUERZA!” (UNITY CREATES STRENGTH!) M.E.Ch.A. AND CHICANA/O STUDENT ACTVISM IN CALIFORNIA, 1967-1999 by Gustavo Licón A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORY) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Gustavo Licón |
