Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas (Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series): 10 - Hardcover

Gonzales, Richard J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574416324 ISBN 13: 9781574416329

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Based on articles written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, author Richard J. Gonzales draws onhis educational, inner-city, and professional lifeexperiences to weave eyewitness testimony intoissues facing Chicanos, including economic, health,education, criminal justice, politics, immigration,and cultural issues. Raza Rising presents a personalrecounting of a Chicano’s struggle with andunderstanding of the socio-economic policies andhistorical actions that impact their ascendancy. RazaRising offers first-hand observations, supported bywell-documented scholarly research, of Chicanos’growth and subsequent struggles to participate fullyin North Texas’ political and economic life.

Raza Rising takes the reader to the organization ofan immigration reform march, to the actual marchwith 20,000 people, to a protest demonstration ofthe City of Farmers Branch’s attempt to prohibitrenting to the undocumented immigrant, to theauthor’s awakening in Chicago on the importance oflearning, and to his poignant experience as a guestspeaker in a Fort Worth public school classroom.

About this title

About the Author

Gonzales, Richard J. wrote for six years aboutChicanos as a Fort Worth Star-Telegram weekly guestcolumnist. He has published short stories in TheAmericas Review, a Hispanic literary journal of theUniversity of Houston, and has worked in, observed, andresearched the Chicano community from the 1970s tothe present. He lives in Arlington, Texas, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574416324
• ISBN 13: 9781574416329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304