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- Title
#Betita TaughtMe: Risk-Taking as a Coalitional Gesture.
- Authors
Solórzano, Rafael R.
- Abstract
21 During this period Betita would write more than twenty articles documenting youth of color activism across California and the US. 22 Martínez, I De Colores i , 232. One cannot discuss the waves of youth activism in 1990s California without talking about the indispensable femtorship of Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez.[1] As a freedom fighter and icon of the civil rights, Chicana/o, and women's movements, Betita's accessibility and popular education tools shaped youth of color's political activism and "understanding of their roles in social change" over many generations.[2] For these youth, "to fight for justice alongside" Betita "was to connect to a lineage of nearly a century of revolutionary struggle."[3] As a writer and organizer, Martínez documented and contributed to multiple freedom movements - from San Francisco, California, to Washington, DC. We invited a panel of guests to help us understand the impact of Betita's risk-taking activism, movidas, and "inter-generational bridge-building" practices.[33] All three guests had past working relationships with Betita. On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Iuri Lara and I celebrated the life, femtorship, and multiracial movement work of Betita on a special edition of Radio Santa Ana.[32] After learning about Betita's passing on June 29, 2021, we were committed to produce a show memorializing her achievements and her fearless activism that challenged racial and gender subordination across the US.
- Subjects
ACTIVISM; SCHOOL dropouts; CIVIL rights movements; YOUNG adults; AFFIRMATIVE action programs; SCHOOL districts; SOCIAL services
- Publication
American Quarterly, 2022, Vol 74, Issue 4, p1031
- ISSN
0003-0678
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/aq.2022.0069