"Mi raza primero!" (My people first!) : nationalism, identity, and insurgency in the Chicano movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 /

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"!Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale-in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chavez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the move...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chávez, Ernesto, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > Politics and government > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > California > Los Angeles > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Chicano movement > California > Los Angeles.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Identité ethnique > Californie > Los Angeles.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Droits > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Chicano movement > Californie > Los Angeles.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Chicano movement
Ethnic relations
Mexican Americans > Civil rights
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans > Politics and government
Politics and government
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Ethnic relations.
California > Los Angeles
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "A movable object meeting an irresistible force": Los Angeles's ethnic Mexican community in the 1950s and early 1960s
  • "Birth of a new symbol": The brown berets
  • Chale no, we won't go!": The Chicano Moratorium Committee
  • "The voice of the Chicano people": La Raza Unida Party
  • "Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras": The Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (CASA)
  • Afterword: "Why are we not marching like in the '70s?"

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