Hero Making in El Movimiento: Reies Lopez Tijerina and the Chicano Nationalist Imaginary

Autor/in	Bebout, Lee
Titel	Hero Making in El Movimiento: Reies Lopez Tijerina and the Chicano Nationalist Imaginary
Quelle	In: Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 32 (2007) 2, S.93-121 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0005-2604
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Nationalism; Foreign Countries; Hispanic Americans; United States History; Discourse Analysis; Change Strategies; New Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nationalismus; Ausland; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Diskursanalyse; Lösungsstrategie
Abstract	This article explores sites of tension and influence between the New Mexico land grant movement and Chicano nationalism. While these efforts diverged often in terms of aims and strategies, they nonetheless found common ground, shaping arguments and providing support to each other during critical years. Moreover, central to their convergence was a moment of historical confluence. I argue that the infamous June 5, 1967, raid propelled Reies Lopez Tijerina and the Alianza Federal de Mercedes to national attention at a moment when Chicano nationalism was just emerging but had not solidified political, spiritual, or philosophical grounds for unification. By examining popular movement discourse, this article demonstrates how the raid transformed Tijerina into a living embodiment of the revolutionary/bandido trope, how that trope was used to draw these projects together, and ultimately how the image of Tijerina conflicted with the reformist strategies of Tijerina, the man. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10