Chicana/o Studies Paradigm: Journal of Alternate VoicesCHICANA/O STUDIES PARADIGM:
A JOURNAL OF ALTERNATE VOICES

                                          Edited by:
                        Randall C. Jimenez and Marie C. Chin

                                   Contributing Editors:
                     Raymond E. Castro and Melanie E. Esquivel

For any person or institution trying to set-up, develop, or maintain a Chicano/a Studies Program or Department, this monograph is a must-have.

CHICANA/O STUDIES PARADIGMS: A JOURNAL OF ALTERNATE VOICES contains detailed histories of some of the oldest Chicano/a Studies Departments and Programs in the nation. It discusses course criteria, discipline structure and pitfalls common to Chicano/a Studies across the country.

This manual sets forth working solutions to many of these frequent problems. It even looks into how to name the program and why that is important. This book will show you how to develop a Chicano/a Studies program that is not a political step-child trying to look academic.

Those who do not take the time to read and implement many of the suggestions and concepts in this book are destined to be part of a society that continues to only pay lip service to the needs of the Chicano/a communities.

Those who do take the time to study the contents of this book will be able to instruct and incorporate a balanced individual as a full integral member of the United States. These young ambassadors become cross cultural bridges to the rest of the Americas.

excerpts:
                                                                                                                          

“In the early 1990's, I was invited to participate in an effort to create a new discipline. The proposed discipline was dubbed the study of "Caring." Backed by the Indianapolis-based Lily Foundation, the new initiative sought to build on preliminary work conducted by researchers at Stanford University.”

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Raymond E. Castro
Sonoma State University
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“‘Frivolous’ materials such as photos, audio or video recordings of major events and happenings are frequently not even created. Often these materials are scattered among over-worked faculty and staff, leaving an incomplete picture of the work that goes into creating and maintaining a Chicana/o Studies program.”

Susan Marie Green
Chico State University
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“Concerned with higher education beyond year 2000, many are looking for models that better reflect and respond to the inherent multidimensional and multicultural complexity of our quickly growing and changing Raza Latina in the United States.”

José B. Cuellar
San Francisco State University
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“We have stepped into the next century and a new millenium. We are in the midst of major demographic and cultural changes in this postcolonial, postmodern, post-feminist era.”
Naomi Helena Quiñonez
Fullerton State University
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“Articulation agreements have existed for decades in American higher education. In most cases, such agreements occur as the result of a well-established, simple and straightforward procedure.”
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Luis Leobardo Arroyo
Long Beach State University

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