{"product_id":"bringing-aztlan-to-mexican-chicago-jose-gamaliel-gonzalez-9780252035388","title":"Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art","description":"\u003ci\u003eBringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e is the autobiography of Jóse Gamaliel González, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over a period of six years by his friend Marc Zimmerman, González looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to call home. Born near Monterey, Mexico, and raised in a steel mill town in northwest Indiana, González studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. Settling in Chicago, he founded two major art groups: El Movimiento Artístico Chicano (MARCH) in the 1970s and Mi Raza Arts Consortium (MIRA) in the 1980s. With numerous illustrations, this book portrays González's all-but-forgotten community advocacy, his commitments and conflicts, and his long struggle to bring quality arts programming to the city. By turns dramatic and humorous, his narrative also covers his bouts of illness, his relationships with other artists and arts promoters, and his place within city and barrio politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jose Gamaliel Gonzalez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252035380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252035388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jose Gamaliel Gonzalez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47304754266367,"sku":"9780252035388","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1d45bdf9-b1ad-4f4f-b17b-c28551a41fab.jpg?v=1758829071","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bringing-aztlan-to-mexican-chicago-jose-gamaliel-gonzalez-9780252035388","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}