Title: Brown-eyed children of the sun : lessons from the Chicano movement, 1965-1975 /
Authors: Mariscal, George
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Mexican Americans Civil rights History; Mexican Americans Politics and government; Mexican Americans Ethnic identity; Civil rights movements United States History; Civil rights workers United States History; Political activists United States History; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States; Chicano movement.; United States Ethnic relations History; United States Social conditions
Abstract: "Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun is a new study of the Chicano/a movement, El Movimiento, and its multiple ideologies. The late 1960s marked the first time U.S. society witnessed Americans of Mexican descent on a national stage as self-determined individuals and collective actors rather than second-class citizens. George Mariscal's book examines the Chicano movement's quest for equal rights and economic justice in the context of the Viet Nam War era."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: "Through a smoking glass darkly" -- "Revolutionaries have no race" -- "Tu querida presencia" -- "Nonviolence is the only weapon" -- "Brown and black together (as long as the sun and the moon shall shine)" -- "To demand that the university work for our people."