The Chicano movement
Subtitle: perspectives from the twenty-first century
By: edited by Mario T. García
Series: New directions in American history; New directions in American history
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780415833080; 9780415833097; 9780203489130
Subjects: Politics and government; Ethnic identity; Civil rights; Ethnic relations; Mexican Americans; Social conditions; Chicano movement; History
Description: "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 Movement expanded to urban areas throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Pacific Northwest, as a generation of self-proclaimed Chicanos fought to empower their communities. Recently, a new generation of historians has produced an explosion of interesting work on the Movement.The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century collects the various strands of this research into one readable collection, exploring the contours of the Movement while disputing the idea of it being one monolithic group. Bringing the story up through the 1980s, The Chicano Movement introduces students to the impact of the Movement, and enables them to expand their understanding of what it means to be an activist, a Chicano, and an American"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: the Chicano Movement: does anyone care about what happened 40 years ago? / Jorge Mariscal; title: Introduction: the Chicano Movement and Chicano historiography / Mario T. García; title: Community struggles; title: "All I want is that he be punished": Border Patrol violence, women's voices and Chicano activism in early 1970s San Diego / Jimmy Patino; title: Reinscribing the voices of la gente in the narrative of the Chicano Movement / Lorena V. Márquez; title: "Hoo-ray Gonzales!": Civil rights protest and Chicano politics in Bakersfield, 1965-1974 / Oliver Rosales; title: Alicia Escalante, the Chicana welfare rights organization, and the Chicano Movement / Rosie Bermúdez; title: Chicana/o movement grassroots leftists and radical electoral politics in Los Angeles, 1970-1980 / José G. Moreno; title: ¡ya basta! the struggle for justice and equality: the Chicano power movement in Oxnard, California / Luis H. Moreno; title: The student movement; title: The ideological struggle for Chicana/o unity and power: a short history of California M.E.C.H.A. / Gustavo Licón; title: 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; title: Geographic diversity and the Chicano Movement; title: San Antonio Chicano Organizers (SACO): labor activists and el movimiento / Max Krochmal; title: "We are a distinct people": defending difference in schools through the Chicano movement in Michigan, 1966-1980 / Nora Salas; title: Sin fronteras: an oral history of a Chicana activist in Oregon during the Chicano Movement / Norma Cárdenas; title: Contributor biographies.