1. History Of The Chicana-O Movement
n an oral history interview conducted in 2011, Chicana scholar Keta
Miranda shared a startling observation about her experiences during the early days of the Chicana/o
movement.1 In 1969, Miranda, who was becoming increasingly involved in the student movement
in Los Angeles, traveled to Denver to take part in the first Chicano Youth Liberation
Conference. She vividly recalls participating in workshops on electoral politics, police repression,
and education, all of which were meant to set a nationalist agenda for the Chicana/o movement. The
first Youth Liberation
Conference responded to a pressing need to unite an array of decolonial struggles for Chicana/o
self–determination–from the land–grant movement in New Mexico and Arizona ðled by Reies
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