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A gringo manual on how to handle Mexicans / Jose Angel Gutierrez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gutiérrez, José Angel.
- Series:
- Hispanic civil rights series.
- Hispanic civil rights series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Civil rights--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Mexican Americans.
- Civil rights movements--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Civil rights movements.
- Mexican Americans--Civil rights--Anecdotes.
- Civil rights movements--United States--Anecdotes.
- United States--Ethnic relations--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- United States.
- United States--Ethnic relations--Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, Tex. : Arte Publico Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- José Angel Gutiérrez is the firebrand civil rights leader of the 1960s and 70s who succeeded in making a minority-based political party a reality in Texas and various other states. In 1970, Gutiérrez led la Raza Unida Party to stunning victories in Crystal City, Texas, and surrounding communities, with Mexican Americans winning all contested seats on the city council and school board, seats held for decades by Anglos. One of the four great leaders of the Chicano Movement, Gutiérrez, along with César Chávez, Reies López Tijerina, and Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, made national calls for militancy and unity, penned nationalist manifestoes, and forced political and educational reform at national and regional levels. Despite Gutiérrezs total commitment to la causa, he found time to write in order to share his political wisdom. Originally self-published during the head of the Chicano Movement, A Gringo Manual on How to Handle Mexicans, now expanded and revised, is a humorous and irreverent manual meant to educate grassroots leaders in practical strategies for community organization, leadership, and negotiation. With tongue in cheek, Gutiérrez attacks the authorities and sacred cows that caused Chicanos anxiety for decades. The manual is a classic in Chicano politics and as a political self-help recipe book. It remains as relevant today as when it was originally published in the early 1970s.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781611921588
- 1611921589
- OCLC:
- 794492199
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