The Rhetoric of Aztlán: HB 2281, MEChA and Liberatory Education
Dora Ramirez-Dhoore In March 1969 at the first national Chicano Liberation Youth Conference hosted by the Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado, a young poet named Alurista read “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán” which forged the ideas of “the bronze continent” and “Aztlán” (Anaya and Lomeli 1). This historical document, often deemed a manifesto of…
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