The lost land

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.

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.

And as Curly just mentioned, it's called The Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest.

And so what I'm about to read to you is a synthesized version of his introduction to sort of frame what we Chicanos, at least in the traditional Chicano sense, uh, have meant and continue to mean, those of us that still do this, uh, by Aztlán.