Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Camarillo, Albert

Titel

Observations on the "New" Chicano History: Historiography of the 1970s. Working Paper Series No. 1

Ort / Verlag

Stanford Center for Chicano Research, Stanford University

Erscheinungsjahr

1984

Quelle

ERIC

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The essay discusses seminal contributions to the field of "new" Chicano history of the 1970's which focused on urban themes, labor and the working class, and women and were produced by a young, formally trained corps of historians (some Latin American, but increasingly United States historians), principally from the major universities of the Southwest, who asked new questions as they analyzed standard interpretations and previously unsubstantiated theses. Publications assessed included historiographic review articles by Arthur Corwin, Juxn Gomez-Quinones, and Luis Arroyo and general Chicano history texts by Carey McWilliams ("North from Mexico") and Rodolfo Acuna ("Occupied America"). Among the four categories of studies analyzed are community studies, studies of the working class and urban occupational structure, institutional and political studies, and studies on the conceptualization or analysis of Chicano urban history. Key anthologies exploring the reality of Chicanas within the Mexican community and larger society are identified. Several period studies covering the 19th and 20th centuries are noted. This review suggests that the prognosis for the continuing development of new Chicano history is excellent if working historians remain on the cutting edge of research and are innovative in their interpretations, conceptualizations, and methodological approaches. (NEC)