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The past decade has seen the dramatic emergence of the Chicano, or Mexican-American, from passive endurance of century-old indifference and injustice at the hands of Anglo society. Such figures as César Chávez in California, Reies Lopez Tijerina in New Mexico, and José Angel Gutíerrez in Texas are but the most visible signs of this far-reaching renaissance of ethnic pride and power. The thirty-two essays in this volume consider the Chicano movement...
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"Papers ... first presented at a conference in April 1975 in San Antonio. "I. The culture of the border. The cultural roots of the border : and archaeologists view / Ignacio Bernal -- The borderlands : ideas on a leafless landscape / Joe B. Frantz -- The culture of the frontier : the Mexican side / Carlos Monsiváis -- The problem of identity in a changing culture : popular expressions of culture conflict along the lower Río Grande border / Américo...
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"The articles that have been selected for inclusion in this revised edition of Voices deal with social science concepts and methodology, with bibliographies, history, education, and the modern state, as these subjects relate to the existence of the Chicano population. Just as in the first edition, the following articles originally appeared in the pages of the journal El Grito, and they represent the Grito articles which have had most response since...
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Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it.
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"This program provides an overview of the Mexican Revolution and traces its human legacy through the Mexican population in San Antonio, Texas. Several prominent Mexican-Americans discuss how the war drove thousands of poor Mexicans across the border into the U.S., and how their descendants are still struggling today for integration into American society. Segregation and exploitation of Mexican farm workers-- examples of ongoing racial prejudice--...
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"This book provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement's social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors examine the movement's origins in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how it evolved from a variety of organizations and activities united in their quest for basic equities for Mexican Americans in U.S. society"--Provided by publisher.
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