Chicanalo Studies Movement on Campus focuses on four particular groups protagonists at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Washington, (UW) and California State University at Northridge (CSUN) and how they formulated organizational and political frameworks for each of their struggles. Chicana/o students, faculty, and community members participated in planning and protesting to compel the university administrations to recognize the Chicana/o Studies academic presence, programs and departments. Fundamentally, these movements attempted to convert Anglo-American universities into multicultural learning institutions.I examine how Chicana/o activists and radicals created and engaged political coalitions at UCB, UCLA, UW and CSUN. I demonstrate how Chicanas/os formulated social and educational movements to implement Chicana/o Studies programs and departments. In this intellectual history, I adopt social movement theory and contextualize the political encounters involving Chicana/o radicals and activists with university administrations. Finally, I offer a critical and historical investigation on how the power behind the culture of the empire responded to and fought to undermine these social movements.
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