Student, Writer, and Cultural Critic
The 40th Reunion of La Raza Unida Party held at Mexitas Restaurant in Austin, Texas, brought together — possibly for the last time — some of the most notable figures of the Chican@ Civil Rights Movement. Organized by a group of party activists the reunion celebrated the work of activists from the 1960s and 70s, [...]
It has been four decades since La Raza Unida Party changed the way Texas votes. Until 1972, the Mexican American electorate was all but ignored by both major political parties. Even after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 people of Mexican descent — and Latin@s in general — were prohibited from voting through literacy tests [...]
I am a second year Master of Arts student in Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. You can find me here or at my culture and arts blog: FunkNBeans.com.
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