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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chávez, Ernesto, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--Politics and government--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--California--Los Angeles--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics and government--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

¡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 Chávez 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 Acción Social Autónomo, commonly known as CASA. Chávez examines and chronicles the ideas and tactics of the insurgency's leaders and their followers who, while differing in their goals and tactics, nonetheless came together as Chicanos and reformers. Deftly combining personal recollection and interviews of movement participants with an array of archival, newspaper, and secondary sources, Chávez provides an absorbing account of the events that constituted the Los Angeles-based Chicano movement. At the same time he offers insights into the emergence and the fate of the movement elsewhere. He presents a critical analysis of the concept of Chicano nationalism, an idea shared by all leaders of the insurgency, and places it within a larger global and comparative framework. Examining such variables as gender, class, age, and power relationships, this book offers a sophisticated consideration of how ethnic nationalism and identity functioned in the United States during the 1960's and 1970's.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "Those Times of Revolution"

1. "A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force": Los Angeles's Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950's and Early 1960's

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 '70's?"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-157) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612762536

9780520935969

0520935969

9781282762534

1282762532

9781597347488

1597347485

OCLC:

55891121