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The Chicano Generation - Testimonios of the Movement (Paperback)
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The Chicano Generation - Testimonios of the Movement (Paperback)
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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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