Raza si, migra no : Chicano movement struggles for immigrant rights in San Diego / Jimmy Patiño.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patiño, Jimmy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chicano movement--California--San Diego--History--20th century.

Chicano movement.

Mexican Americans--California--San Diego--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.

Noncitizens--Mexico.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 340 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Summary:

"As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadership of the small-scale print shop owner Herman Baca in the Chicano movement to empower Mexican Americans through Chicano self-determination. The combination of increasing repression and Chicano activism gradually produced a new conception of ethnic and racial community that included both established Mexican Americans and new Mexican immigrants. Here, Jimmy Patino narrates the rise of this Chicano/Mexicano consciousness and the dawning awareness that Mexican Americans and Mexicans would have to work together to fight border enforcement policies that subjected Latinos of all statuses to legal violence. By placing the Chicano and Latino civil rights struggle on explicitly transnational terrain, Patino fundamentally reorients the understanding of the Chicano movement. Ultimately, Patino tells the story of how Chicano/Mexicano politics articulated an 'abolitionist' position on immigration--going beyond the agreed upon assumptions shared by liberals and conservatives alike that deportations are inherent to any solutions to the still burgeoning immigration debate."-eBook Central

Contents:

A scene of the Americas : from el Congreso to la Hermandad

He had a uniform and authority : border patrol violence and Chicano/Mexicano resistance

For those families who are deported and have no place to land : building CASA Justicia

The first time I met Cesar Chávez, I got into an argument with him : California employer sanctions and Chicano debates over undocumented workers

Delivering the Mexicano vote : immigration and the La Raza Unida party

The sheriff must be obsessed with racism! : the Committee on Chicano Rights battles police violence

Who's the illegal alien pilgrim? : the Carter Curtain, the KKK, and Chicano/Mexicano resistance

Power concedes nothing without demand : the Chicano National Immigration Conference and Tribunal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908534-4-8

979-88-908534-5-5

1-4696-3557-7

1-4696-3558-5

OCLC:

1007134896