Mi Raza Primero, My People First - Nationalism, Identity, Insurgency in Chicano Movement in Los

"Chávez provides a fresh and thoughtful analysis of a critical period of ethnic political experimentation. !Mi Raza Primero! offers much food for thought for readers interested in the Chicano movement—and for anyone seeking to understand the increasing complexity of ethnic politics in the current moment."—David G. Gutiérrez, author of Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Those Times of Revolution"

1. "A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force": Los Angeles’s Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950s and Early 1960s
2. "Birth of A New Symbol": The Brown Berets
3. "Chale No, We Won’t Go!": The Chicano Moratorium Committee
4. "The Voice of the Chicano People": La Raza Unida Party
5. "Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras": The Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (CASA)

Afterword: "Why Are We Not Marching Like in the ’70s?"
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Ernesto Chávez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso.

Summary

Examines the Chicano movement's development in Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. This book focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: the Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo.

Product details

• Authors: Ernesto Ch?vez, Ernesto Chavez, Ernesto Chávez
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2002
• EAN: 9780520230187
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23018-7
• No. of pages: 183
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Ethnic Studies, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, California, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / Social History, Nationalism, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Political activism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Political activism / Political engagement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements