The Chicano movement : perspectives from the twenty-first century /

The Chicano movement : perspectives from the twenty-first century / edited by Mario T. García.

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The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.S. to date, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s linked civil rights activism with a new, assertive ethnic identity: Chicano Power! Beginning with the farmworkers' struggle led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the Movemen...

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Other Authors: García, Mario T. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Series:New directions in American history.
Subjects:
Chicano movement.
Mexican Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
Ethnic relations.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights.
Mexican Americans > Politics and government.
Mexican Americans > Social conditions.
Political science.
Social history.
United States > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
California > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
California > Politics and government > 20th century.
California.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Chicano Movement: does anyone care about what happened 45 years ago? / Jorge Mariscal
  • The Chicano Movement and Chicano historiography / Mario T. García.
  • Community Struggles. "All I want is that he be punished" : Border Patrol violence, women's voices and Chicano activism in early 1970s San Diego / Jimmy Patino
  • Reinscribing the voices of La Gente in the narrative of the Chicano Movement / Lorena V. Márquez
  • "Hoo-ray Gonzales!" : Civil rights protest and Chicano politics in Bakersfield, 1968-1974 / Oliver A. Rosales
  • Alicia Escalante, the Chicana welfare rights organization, and the Chicano Movement / Rosie C. Bermúdez
  • Chicana/o movement grassroots leftists and radical electoral politics in Los Angeles, 1970-1980 / José G. Moreno
  • ¡Ya basta! : the struggle for justice and equality, the Chicano power movement in Oxnard, California / Luis H. Moreno.
  • The Student Movement. The ideological struggle for Chicana/o unity and power: a short history of California M.E.C.h.A. / Gustavo Licón
  • Understanding the role of conflict, factionalism, and schism in the development of the Chicano student movement: the Mexican American Student Association and La Vida Nueva at East Los Angeles College / Marisol Moreno.
  • Geographic Diversity and the Chicano Movement. San Antonio Chicano Organizers (SACO) : labor activists and El Movimiento / Max Krochmal
  • "We are a distinct people" : defending difference in schools through the Chicano movement in Michigan, 1966-1980 / Nora Salas
  • Sin Fronteras: an oral history of a Chicana activist in Oregon during the Chicano Movement / Norma Cárdenas.

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