Latina Filmmakers and Writers: The Notion of Chicanisma Through Films and Novellas

by Jenny Dean and Jenny Dean

During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, Chicanas helped Chicanos achieve equal rights, while at the same time suffered oppression as women wihin their own race. In the 1970s, the Chicana Feminist Movement was founded to address the specific needs of Chicanas as women of color in the United States. Chicana artits began to write and produce works in which Chicanas were given a proper name, voice, and image. Soon, Chicanisma, a sense of sisterhood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979645719
• ISBN13: 9780979645716
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Floricanto Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"