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Written And Oral Histories Of The Chicano Movement At New Mexico Highlands University, 1968-1970, Julianna C. Wiggins

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This thesis presents spoken, written, and drawn histories produced before the Chicano Movement at New Mexico Highlands University in November 1970 and the discourses which have followed in the movement’s wake fifty years later. This qualitative study explores the campus climate at NMHU using the student newspaper Highlands Candle. Its contents from 1968 until 1971 are contrasted with the multiple voices of a generation which adopted the term Chicano as a racial identifier into the NMHU vernacular. Social factors including the formation of student-of-color groups and the return of veterans from the Vietnam War appear to change the student …

Partnership Agreement Between Abya-Yala, An Academic Publishing Unit Of The Abya-Yala Cultural Center, And The University Of New Mexico's University Libraries, University Of New Mexico

Centro Cultural Abya Yala del Ecuador

The parties believe this partnership agreement will:

• enrich the Indigenous and Latin American research collections at the University of New Mexico
• give global visibility to the Abya-yala Cultural Center and its publications
• extend the market for Abya-yala publications
• bring new revenue to Abya-yala to digitize more publications
• integrate Abya-yala publications in searches in or about Latin American and indigenous issues in English and Spanish (and eventually other languages such as Portuguese)
• increase research activity in these areas
• the production of more publications
• enhance the technical capacity of Abya-yala to create digital publications based on OAI standards
• create opportunities to include …