John R. Chávez

In this episode, we're going to be covering the concept of Aztlán historically, mythohistorically, and what it means to the modern Chicano movement.

We're going to start off with my co-host, Tlacatecat, reading a synthesized version of an introduction to the book, The Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest by John R. Chavez.

Afterwards, we'll go into some information on the historical meaning of Aztlán and how it's being used today.

Also, criticisms of the word itself.

So we are proud to bring to you, dear listeners, The Lost Episode of Aztlán.

All right.

Well, uh, full disclosure, John R. Chavez was my dissertation advisor in graduate school, and, uh, his book was influential in my own work and my own study on Chicano Indigeneity.

And so his book, uh, was published in 1984 from the University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.