Chicano politics and society in the late twentieth century /

Montejano's informative collection of post-Chicano movement case studies includes community studies on San Antonio's personal agenda politics, Chicago's Black-Latino coalition and hacienda politics (compare to Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Louis DeSipio's Awash in the Mainstream: Latino Politics in the 1996 Election, 1999), and Los Angeles's politicization of working-class Mexican American women. Institutional studies cover the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board's regulation of the farm worker labor movement, the University of New Mexico's Los Profesores organization, and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and policy-making advocacy for immigration reform (contrast with Bonilla et al., Borderless Borders, 1998). General studies examine Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino's proposal of a humanistic approach to politics in providing a forum for developing a broader analysis of the Chicano experience. Also addressed is the influence of local political culture on Chicano nationalism and scenarios that could stimulate a potential rise in nationalism, and the nature of Chicano-Anglo relations. The most widely developed theme suggests that inclusion assumes the politics of protest and that institutional movements, despite limitations, moderate ethnic issues and political behavior when compromises are reached, which may be at the expense of the community. Informative endnotes, good index. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates, faculty, professionals, policy analysts, and elected officials. A. A. Sisneros University of Illinois at Springfield