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Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise 1940-1990 (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Series)

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This political history of Mexican Americans analyzes and interprets the last fifty years within the movimiento. Written by a leading Chicano historian who spent many years as an activist, this study evolved from Juan Gómez-Quiñones’s participation and reflection.

Examined are the leaders and organizations that waged struggles for political rights in addition to the evolution of their goals and strategies. Beginning within the 1940s, Mexican Americans viewed the advocacy process in party politics, coupled with the selected use of the courts, as effective means to redress problems. But by the mid-1930s, the persistence of discrimination, inequality, and poverty led many to question the so-referred to as gains make through piecemeal reform. A new style of politics, in accordance with wide mobilization and an insistence upon democratic rights, coalesced into an ethnic populism referred to as the Chicano movement.

Today, the Mexican American community in the US remains committed to securing a more socially just life, But its political expression is frequently at a loss for words because, within the jumble of competing voices and self-serving conservatism, the actual majority of the Mexican American community–the workers–are frequently overpassed and unheeded.

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