The Chicano Generation :Testimonios of the Movement

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The Chicano Generation

The Chicano Generation :Testimonios of the Movement

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In The Chicano Generation, veteran Chicano civil rights scholar Mario T. Garcia provides a rare look inside the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s as they unfolded in Los Angeles. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with three key activists, this book illuminates the lives of Raul Ruiz, Gloria Arellanes, and Rosalio Munoz their family histories and widely divergent backgrounds; the events surrounding their growing consciousness as Chicanos; the sexism encountered by Arellanes; and the aftermath of their political histories. In his substantial introduction, Garcia situates the Chicano movement in Los Angeles and contextualizes activism within the largest civil rights and empowerment struggle by Mexican Americans in US history a struggle that featured Cesar Chavez and the farm workers, the student movement highlighted by the 1968 LA school blowouts, the Chicano antiwar movement, the organization of La Raza Unida Party, the Chicana feminist movement, the organizing of undocumented workers, and the Chicano Renaissance. Weaving this revolution against a backdrop of historic Mexican American activism from the 1930s to the 1960s and the contemporary black power and black civil rights movements, Garcia gives readers the best representations of the Chicano generation in Los Angeles.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780520286023
ISBN10 0520286022
Number Of Pages 352
Item Weight 499 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Publisher / Reseller University of California Press
Format paperback
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"[Heavy Ground] does something unexpected. It opens a new perspective onto William Mulholland... [bringing him] to life in all his sharp-elbowed, stubborn glory, saddened and perplexed by the St. Francis Dam debacle yet prideful until the end." -- John Buntin Wall Street Journal "This book is a welcome contribution to understanding the Chicano movement and is convincing because the narrators actually participated in the events. Their complicated humanity makes for compelling history in the first person." -- Richard Griswold Del Castillo Western Historical Quarterly "Over twenty years in the making, the book relies on the use of testimonios, or testimonies ... intended to educate others while also inspiring them to continue the struggle." Southwestern Historical Quarterly

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Author's Bio

Mario T. Garcia is Professor of Chicano Studies and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including The Gospel of Cesar Chavez, Mexican Americans, A Dolores Huerta Reader, Desert Immigrants, Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice, and Memories of Chicano History (UC Press).

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