Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise 1940-1990
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Book Overview
This political history of Mexican Americans analyzes and interprets the last fifty years in the movimiento . Written by a leading Chicano historian who spent many years as an activist, this study evolved from Juan Gómez-Quiñones's participation and reflection. Examined are the leaders and organizations that waged struggles for political rights as well as the evolution of their goals and strategies. Beginning in the 1940s, Mexican Americans viewed the advocacy process in party politics, coupled with the selected use of the courts, as effective means to redress problems. But by the mid-1930s, the persistence of discrimination, inequality, and poverty led many to question the so-called gains make through piecemeal reform. A new style of politics, based on wide mobilization and an insistence upon democratic rights, coalesced into an ethnic populism known as the Chicano movement. Today, the Mexican American community in the United States remains committed to securing a more socially just life, But its political expression is often confused because, in the jumble of competing voices and self-serving conservatism, the true majority of the Mexican American community--the workers--are often overlooked and unheeded.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0826312136
ISBN13:9780826312136
Release Date:July 1990
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Length:271 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
He gets strait to the point
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This is how all books should be like. It's too bad high schools don't use books like this one. Gomez-Quinones doesn't sugarcoat anything in his book.
He tells it like it is
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This book is written on facts. I highly recommend it to others.
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