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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rosales, Francisco A. (Francisco Arturo) Chicano! Houston, TX : Arte Público Press, 1996 (OCoLC)604946633 Online version: Rosales, Francisco A. (Francisco Arturo) Chicano! Houston, TX : Arte Público Press, 1996 (OCoLC)609177665 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Francisco A Rosales |
| ISBN: | 1558851526 9781558851528 |
| OCLC Number: | 34243987 |
| Notes: | Based on the four-part television series of the same name. |
| Description: | xxiii, 304 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 1. Americans by Conquest -- Ch. 2. Legacy of the Mexican Revolution -- Ch. 3. Mexican Immigrants -- Ch. 4. In Defense of Mexico Lindo -- Ch. 5. Organizing el Mexico de Afuera -- Ch. 6. The Mexican American Generation -- Ch. 7. In Defense of the Workplace -- Ch. 8. The Struggle in the Fields -- Ch. 9. In Quest of a Homeland -- Ch. 10. The Fight for Educational Reform -- Ch. 11. The Chicano Moratorium -- Ch. 12. The Youth of Aztlan -- Ch. 13. The Road to Political Empowerment -- Ch. 14. Legacy of the Chicano Movement. |
| Other Titles: | Chicano! (Television program : 1996) |
| Responsibility: | by F. Arturo Rosales. |
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Abstract:
Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement designates four major episodes of the Mexican civil rights struggle in the United States. Chapter One features efforts of the "lost-land" generation (southwest Mexican natives) to stem property losses, maintain their culture and assert civil rights given them by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the US takeover of the Southwest in the mid-nineteenth century. The second portion, Chapters Two to Five, views immigrant attempts in the early part of this century to protect themselves from a hostile American public. In the effort to safeguard their civil rights, an elaborate Mexico Lindo (Pretty Mexico) nationalism emerged that immigrants used to rally around issues of repression. Chapters Six and Seven look at the optimistic Mexican American generation made up primarily of children of immigrants who did not have ties to Mexico. Not only did this generation demand the civil rights to which they were entitled, but they also strove to acculturate to Anglo American culture without turning their backs on their Mexican heritage. In addition, Mexican Americans in this era made the greatest attempts to empower themselves as workers. The final and most lengthy section of the book traces the evolution of the Chicano Movement and assesses its legacy. It takes the reader through the most turbulent days of civil unrest and grass-roots organizing in Mexican American history.
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