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Article: Chicano studies: forging identity.(development of Chicano studies as a discipline)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- April 4, 1996
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Carlos Munoz, Chicano studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley, says the relatively large influx of Chicano students into universities unleashed a political movement focused on civil and human rights and an intellectual movement that both challenged historical knowledge and created the discipline of Chicano studies.
Books such as "Occupied America." by California State University-Northridge professor Rodolfo Acuna, which is widely used in Chicano studies classes, created the intellectual underpinnings that rejected the notions -- accepted by previous generations -- that Chicanos were immigrants or foreigners, that they wanted to assimilate and ...