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Aztlan

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Az·tlán  (äz-tlän)
1. In Aztec legend, the original home of the Aztec people, held to have been located in northwest Mexico.
2. The American Southwest, specifically the territory of northern Mexico ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The term is used especially by Chicano-rights activists.


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Joining LULAC were the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), and numerous other left-wing radical organizations, including the Communist Party USA, which played up the demonstrations in its newspaper, the People's Weekly World.
Sponsoring the revolution: illegal immigrants are pawns in a game ... by Behreandt, Dennis / The New American
Ernestos Cienfuegos is editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles-based Voz de Aztlan news service, which one critic describes as being dedicated to the belief that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington belong to the "mythical" homeland of Aztlan.
Immigration controversies by Catholic Insight
A little later, but basically contemporaneous with Phase I, a few Chicano poets, most notably Alurista with his Floricanto en Aztlan and Nationchild Plumaroja, began to generate a "genuine" Chicano poetics by "transcending" political protest.
History in the poetry of Prospero Saiz: a reading of "document" by Deppman, Jed / MELUS
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