"A history of Chicana and Chicano militancy that explores the question of whether this social movement is a racial or a national struggle"--Provided by publisher. "U.S. history is often treated as if conquest and dispossession ended in the distant past. But to Chicanas and Chicanos the memory of U.S. seizure of the Southwest is still raw. Generations of people of Mexican ancestry have fought a second-class status perpetuated by racial and cultural...