Form Factors:  Chicano Movement Form and the Factors that Influenced it in Los Angeles and San Antonio

Camarillo, Tyler

Form Factors: Chicano Movement Form and the Factors that Influenced it in Los Angeles and San Antonio

dc.contributor.advisor	Szymanski, Ann-Marie
dc.contributor.author	Camarillo, Tyler
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Johnson, Tyler
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Fryar, Alisa
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Reedy, Justin
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-27T17:46:05Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-27T17:46:05Z
dc.date.issued	2022-07-18
dc.date.manuscript	2022-07-27
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation has two goals. The first goal is to understand better the Chicano Movement, which is understudied in political science. The second goal is to find which movement theory best explains why movements take the form they do. In this dissertation, I conduct an in-depth historical analysis of the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, CA, and San Antonio, TX, to understand the differences in movement form between the two cities. The three social movement theories I test are Resource Mobilization Theory, Political Opportunity Structure, and Perceptions of Success. The findings indicate that resources and political opportunities in the cities impacted Chicano Movement form to some degree, but activist perceptions of success were most significant in influencing form. One final key contribution of this dissertation is illustrating how local factors must be considered when studying social movements. The Chicano activists were part of a larger movement, but local factors significantly influenced how they operated.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244/335975
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Social Movements	en_US
dc.subject	Chicano Movement	en_US
dc.subject	Movement Form	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Ph.D.	en_US
dc.title	Form Factors: Chicano Movement Form and the Factors that Influenced it in Los Angeles and San Antonio	en_US
ou.group	Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Political Science	en_US