Youth, Identity, Power - The Chicano Movement

Zusatztext “The first major book on the Chicano movement by one of its leaders! who is also a first-rate scholar. Youth! Identity! Power is certain to be a benchmark for all future work on the subject. An important ... contribution to the history of the 1960s! it ... should be required reading.”—Clayborne Carson “A very important and powerful book! documenting American history ... without question! one of the lodestones in reference to the ‘movimiento.’”—Luis Valdez “An essential record of the Chicano movement and an important addition to the history of American social protest.”— San Francisco Chronicle Informationen zum Autor Carlos Muñoz, Jr. is a scholar-activist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies Department in the nation and a founder of the National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies. Klappentext Named an Outstanding Book on Human Rights for 1990 by the Gustavus Myers Center Zusammenfassung Offering an exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America! this title places the movement in the wider context of the political development of Mexicans and their descendants in the US. It also situates the student protests of the 1960s within the changing political scene of the time.

Product details

• Authors: Carlos Munoz, Carlos Muñoz
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2007
• EAN: 9781844671427
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-142-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Haymarket
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Political activism, c 1960 to c 1970, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1960 to c 1969, Political activism / Political engagement