Viva la raza : a history of Chicano identity and resistance /

Viva la raza : a history of Chicano identity and resistance /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Alaniz, Yolanda, 1950-
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Seattle, WA : Red Letter Press, 2008.
Description:	366 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans -- Politics and government. Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- History. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History. Social movements -- United States -- History. Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History. Racism -- United States -- History. Mexican Americans -- History. Mexican American women -- History. Civil rights movements. Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. Government, Resistance to. Mexican American women. Mexican Americans. Mexican Americans -- Civil rights. Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans -- Politics and government. Racism. Social movements. United States -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7486545

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Other authors / contributors:	Cornish, Megan.
ISBN:	0932323286 (pbk.) 9780932323286 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"A history of Chicana and Chicano militancy that explores the question of whether this social movement is a racial or a national struggle"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Theory
An unconquered people
Approach and terminology
Nation and race : dynamics and differences
A scientific theory of nationhood
The nature of racism
The national question and Chicanas/os
Chicanas/os : a super-exploited race
The fallacy of "cultural-national autonomy"
Theoretical conclusion
pt. 2. History
Conquest and resistance
The subjugation of Mexico
The English colonies
Spanish settlement of Northern Mexico
How the West was stolen
Desperados and guerrilla fighters
Chicanas/os and the Mexican Revolution
The saga of Chicana/o industrial labor
Mining struggles
Garment industry battles
Chicanas/os and the CIO
McCarthyism
Valiant agricultural struggles
Search for human chattel
Early farmworker resistance
The UFW : emergence of a vanguard
Chicana/o sun rising : el movimiento
The youth movement
¡Raza sí, guerra no?
The call for Aztlán
La Alianza : the New Mexico land struggle
Independent political action : La Raza Unida Party
Organizing against police brutality
The Latin American connection
Revolution in the revolution
Mujeres mobilize
"¡Pa 'fuera! Come out!" : Chicana/o gays emerge
pt. 3. Strategy
A platform for Chicana/o liberation
Programmatic demands
Responsibilities of the left
Appendix 1. Farmworker organizing in the Yakima Valley
Appendix 2. Uproar at the University of Washington.