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I hope that by describing this journey as an ideological diaspora my audience will better understand the purpose for such a migration along with the power and necessity required of the activist life in exile experienced by these women.
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Visualizations like timelines and maps allow researchers and educators an opportunity to understand the period examined in the Chicana or mi Raza Digital Memory Collective as a broad spectrum of interconnected events, organizational networks, and political mobilizations.
Using largely volunteer and student labor, CPMR offers a model for grassroots digital history that encourages further research into understudied aspects of the American experience.
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What is Chicana por mi Raza?
Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective is a group of researchers, educators, students, archivists and technologists dedicated to preserving imperiled Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long Civil Rights Era.
Started by Professor Maria Cotera and filmmaker Linda Garcia Merchant in 2009, CPMR has traveled to over one dozen states to collect hundreds of hours of oral histories with notable Chicanas, Latinas, and allies. The overarching objective of the project is to provide broad‐based public access to oral histories, material culture, correspondence, and rare out‐of‐print publications for use in both scholarly research and the classroom.
Whether this work involves developing a class to collect oral histories, incorporating CPMR materials into lesson plans and class assignments, producing a “biocuration” or a short essay for our website, adding key descriptive information to a document in our repository, or simply correcting tags and other metadata—users of the archive are reminded that they are not mining a repository, but rather joining a network structured by the exchange of knowledge and conocimiento.
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Scholars, teachers and community members who wish to use the materials we have collected, are asked to commit to the project’s goals by joining the CPMR collective, and contributing to its continued survival and growth.
This group of Chicana/Latina women create a space outside of both worlds, but like the combined space in a Venn diagram, it is understood and agreed upon as a forced existence between both worlds.
The diasporic, while actual is defined as ideological so that I do not disrespect or in any way offer a cultural appropriation of the idea of African or Black diaspora or more generally, any journey of a people from a native space to a foreign one that results in exile from the original space.
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Joining the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective
Since its inception, the Chicana por mi Raza Project has relied on the collective efforts of a group of researchers and teachers who are committed to unearthing the lessons of Chicana feminist praxis.
The project has also scanned personal archives for preservation and access. Most of the oral histories consist of several hours of film footage, and some women have been interviewed more than once. The work on these visualizations has been completed by the following members of our collective: Maia Volk, Linda Garcia Merchant, Tiffany González, Rebecca Gomez, Shauna Paulson, Adonia Arteaga, Carolyn Racine
Chicana timeline:
This timeline traces the actions of Chicanas working at the intersection of the Women’s Movement and the Chicano Movement.
The information on the historical events documented in these visualizations have been gathered from scholarly books and articles, online resources, and through the personal memory and archives of the women in the Chicana Digital Memory Collective. The organization posted a list of significant “Chicano movement” activists on its website which included Enriqueta Vasquez of El Grito del Norte.[1]
Vietnam protester
Congressman Ed Roybal, journalists Ruben Salazar, Francisca Flores and Enriqueta Vasquez, and activists Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Corky Gonzales, Reies Tijerina and Bert Corona, were all early Latino protesters against the Vietnam War.[2]
LRS
In 1982 Enriqueta Vasquez, a New Mexico activist was a writer for League of Revolutionary Struggles' Unity.
The movement was ignited through direct action advocating for farm workers rights., struggles against police brutality, and demands for equitable education.
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Chicana Movement Map:
This map traces the actions of Chicanas working at the intersection of the Women’s Movement and the Chicano Movement.
From these interviews we've collected and processed approximately 10,000 archival items, with 3000 or so awaiting digitizing, description and uploading. Our online digital repository currently contains approximately 7,000 available digital records and over 500 interview clips.
Getting Involved
There are many ways to get involved with the CPMR Collective.
Since then, the CPMR team has interviewed more than 80 women. For those hoping to stay-up-to-date on CPMR as well as Latinx Digital Humanities, we recommend joining our Facebook Group or our twitter page @PorChicana. With the release of Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique in 1963 and the establishment of the National Organization for Women in 1966, second wave feminism expanded the debate on women’s rights from voting to issues of family, employment, and reproductive rights.
Enriqueta Vasquez
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Chicano movement
The 40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the Chicano Moratoriums was formed in the summer 2009 by the Chair of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee of August 29, 1970 along with two independent Chicano Movement historians whom although not of the baby boomer generation, have become inspired by the Movimiento.
The ideological diaspora for Chicanas is required as a need to create a cultural and political space to work, forced upon them as a result of their expulsion from two ideological communities because of gender (Chicano movement) and race (White Feminist movement). As this timeline demonstrates, Chicanas used direct action, scholarship, and coalition building, among other strategies to illuminate their narrative at the intersection of their identities as women and Mexican Americans.
Story Maps created by Maia Volk
Chicano Movement Map:
This map represents the history of the Chicano movement, a more well known history often told from the perspective of men within the movement.
Collection Details
Chicana por mi Raza began collecting oral histories in 2009. The expulsion presents itself as blacklisting, underfunding, and exclusion from leadership, (certainly from spaces of power and agency) or, in some instances as access to membership with agency within organizations.
Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s the Chicano movement advocated for Mexican American civil rights and empowerment.