Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History Of The Chicano Movement, 1966!1981 (Jack And Doris Smothers Seri ; 9780292722903 ; 0292722907
Language: English
Published by University of Texas Press, 2010
Series: Book 10 of 20 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
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- Title
- Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History Of The Chicano Movement, 1966!1981 (Jack And Doris Smothers Seri ; 9780292722903 ; 0292722907
- Author
- Montejano, David
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Publication year
- 2010
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- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0292722907
- ISBN 13
- 9780292722903
- Series
- Book 10 of 20: Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
Winner, NACCS-Tejas Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Tejas Foco, 2011
NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2012
In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transformed the barrios and ultimately brought down the old Anglo oligarchy. In Quixote's Soldiers, David Montejano uses a wealth of previously untapped sources, including the congressional papers of Henry B. Gonzalez, to present an intriguing and highly readable account of this turbulent period.
Montejano divides the narrative into three parts. In the first part, he recounts how college student activists and politicized social workers mobilized barrio youth and mounted an aggressive challenge to both Anglo and Mexican American political elites. In the second part, Montejano looks at the dynamic evolution of the Chicano movement and the emergence of clear gender and class distinctions as women and ex-gang youth struggled to gain recognition as serious political actors. In the final part, Montejano analyzes the failures and successes of movement politics. He describes the work of second-generation movement organizations that made possible a new and more representative political order, symbolized by the election of Mayor Henry Cisneros in 1981.
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About the Author
David Montejano, a native San Antonian, is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His fields of specialization include community studies, historical and political sociology, and race and ethnic relations. He is the author of the award-winning Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 and the editor of Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century.
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