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It was articulated in the manifesto, El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, a document that outlined an ideology meant to unite all Chicanos of the Southwest.
Not infrequently the return address on an envelope will be Califas, Aztlán.
The eminent professor Luis Leal states that Aztlán has two meanings for Chicanos: the geographic region of the southwestern United States and “the spiritual union of the Chicanos, something that is carried within the heart, no matter where they may live or where they may find themselves” (Leal 1995, 5).
In the late 1960s Chicanas who joined the Brown Berets de Aztlán, a political pseudomilitary youth group, often dressed as Adelitas, wearing rebozos (shawls) and bandoliers crisscrossed over their chests.
For Chicanos born in the United States, Mexico is not home, but neither is the United States, so Aztlán is looked upon as the mythical homeland.
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