Ysidro Ramon Macias
Ysidro Ramon Macias was born into a farmworker family in Salinas California in 1944. He was a founding member of the Chicano Movement in 1967, and organized Chicano student groups in southern and northern California, including MASC-Berkeley and the Third World Liberation Front at Berkeley. He also co-organized the Brown Berets of San Francisco's Mission District. He was jailed for political activities on several occasions, including receiving the longest sentence given to a Berkeley protestor....See more
Ysidro Ramon Macias was born into a farmworker family in Salinas California in 1944. He was a founding member of the Chicano Movement in 1967, and organized Chicano student groups in southern and northern California, including MASC-Berkeley and the Third World Liberation Front at Berkeley. He also co-organized the Brown Berets of San Francisco's Mission District. He was jailed for political activities on several occasions, including receiving the longest sentence given to a Berkeley protestor. A former professor at various California universities in the 1970's, he was also involved in Chicano theater as a director/playwright where he met Andres Segura Granados in 1972, the Mexica capitan-general de la danza who taught him, via oral tradition, the Mexica creation worldview, "La Esencia de las Cosas." He subsequently became an farmworker attorney in Fresno California until 1990, when he moved to Hawaii. Establishing a tortilla factory there, his family now runs the tortilla business while Macias has retired to the island of Kauai. Throughout these life and geographical changes, Macias has remained centered on "indigenismo," the study of his native Mexican ancestors and their knowledge and culture. His two previous books also center on native Mexican and American culture and thought: "The Compassion of the Feathered Serpent: A Chicano Worldview," and "Walking the Red Road on Chicanismo." See less
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