ABSTRACT
Despite its many internal disputes, the Chicano movement was legitimized as a unifying phenomenon, creating an oppositional consciousness against the dominant Anglo social order. It took shape in the late 1960s and grew throughout the 1970s, encompassing a diverse set of goals. One goal, particularly in New Mexico, was to regain land lost to Anglos or the federal government. The history of the Chicano movement is the history of dynamic civil, political, and cultural resistance to oppression, and the seeking of societal change through collective empowerment and community action. The writings and histories of those who were the youth of the movement in the 1960s and 1970s, who are the elders now, has provided frameworks and templates of resistance for new generations of Chicana/o activists. It continues in Chicana feminism, in Chicana/o Studies departments, and in Xicanisma/o, the recognition and inclusivity of intersectional identities.
