Chicano Generation: Testimonios of the Movement - Softcover

García

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520286022 ISBN 13: 9780520286023

Publisher: University of California Press, 2018

Synopsis

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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Review:

"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."-- (07/08/2016)

"The book would be a valuable resource for any course that purviews the Chicano Movimiento, Chican@/Latin@ politics, critical legal studies, grassroots organizing, or leadership models for social change."--Pacific Historical Review (07/26/2017)

"[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."-- (01/22/2016)

"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

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0520286022
• ISBN 13: 9780520286023
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346