ChicanaDiasporic: A Nomadic Journey of the Activist Exiled

Chicana 1971

1971 the Chicanas come together with other women of color to work with the White feminists in establishing a second wave movement. This time women of color are two rungs down on the Sandovalian hierarchy of rule. The Chicanas, standing on ten thousand years of matriarchal tribal politic and the Nahuatl belief in the rise of Tonaztin/Guadalupe as Virgen ushering in a feminine cosmic dominance for the Meztizo, are not willing to agree to take a supporting role. Some say nothing, others become masters of Robert’s Rules of Order—the parliamentarian’s big stick of rules and regulations used to manage the variety of opinion challenging to the forward motion of organizations—to carve out a space where Chicana identity can co-exist.

1971 the Chicanas, working tirelessly across the country in initatives within the academy and the community agree to meet in Houston, attempting to create a national presence. A walkout, by Chicana agitators urged on, and supported by Chicanos from California and Texas seals the space of suspicion between the two state groups—the largest contingent of Chicanas in the US—and the fate of a national Chicana movement.

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