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

"!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.
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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?"