Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays (Chicana Matters)

Winner, Susan Koppelman Award, Best Edited Volume in Women's Studies in Popular and American Culture, 2008 The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican-American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political issues of the working class and the Chicano Movement. In this collective memoir, seventeen women who were a part of Teatro de las Chicanas (later known as Teatro Laboral and Teatro Raíces) come together to share why they joined the theatre and how it transformed their lives. Teatro Chicana tells the story of this troupe through chapters featuring the history and present-day story of each of the main actors and writers, as well as excerpts from the group's materials and seven of their original short scripts. Foreword / Yolanda Broyles-gonzalez -- Time Line -- I. Recuerdos / Memoirs -- 1. Delia Ravelo -- 2. Peggy Garcia -- 3. Laura E. Garcia -- 4. Gloria Bartlett Heredia -- 5. Teresa Oyos -- 6. Kathy Requejo -- 7. Clara Cuevas -- 8. Virginia Rodriguez Balanoff -- 9. Sandra M. Gutierrez -- 10. Margarita Carrillo -- 11. Hilda Rodriguez -- 12. Delia Rodriguez -- 13. Guadalupe Beltran -- 14. Maria Juarez -- 15. Gloria Escalera -- 16. Evelyn Cruz -- 17. Felicitas Nunez -- Ii. Actos / Scripts -- Chicana Goes To College -- Bronca -- So Ruff, So Tuff -- Salt Of The Earth -- E.t. - The Alien -- Anti-nuke Commercial -- Archie Bunker Goes To El Salvador -- Addendum. Reunion Of Teatro De Las Chicana -- Addendum. Bylaws Of Teatro Raices. Edited By Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, And Felicitas Nuñez ; Foreword By Yolanda Broyles-gonzález. The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican-American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political issues of the working class and the Chicano Movement. In this collective memoir, seventeen women who were a part of Teatro de las Chicanas (later known as Teatro Laboral and Teatro Raíces) come together to share why they joined the theatre and how it transformed their lives. Teatro Chicana tells the story of this troupe through chapters featuring the history and present-day story of each of the main actors and writers, as well as excerpts from the group's materials and seven of their original short scripts. -- Amazon.com The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican-American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political issues of the working class and the Chicano Movement. In this collective memoir, seventeen women who were a part of Teatro de las Chicanas (later known as Teatro Laboral and Teatro Raíces) come together to share why they joined the theatre and how it transformed their lives. Teatro Chicana tells the story of this troupe through chapters featuring the history and present-day story of each of the main actors and writers, as well as excerpts from the group's materials and seven of their original short scripts.