Querencias Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland, (Paperback)

During the 1960s and 1970s, the myth of Aztlán, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging Chicano cultural renaissance. Aztlán continues to resonate as deeply in the Chicano imagination as it did in post-Conquest Mexico, when it motivated thousands of Mexican Indians to come north with expeditions of exploration and colonization. The return to the place of origin is a return to the future, a spiritual cartography of hope. This expanded edition of the classic 1989 Aztlán anthology adds a new collection of maps and codices, plus six more essays, including both the oldest and most recent written on the subject.