Viva la raza a history of Chicano identity and resistance /
"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.
| Main Author: | Alaniz, Yolanda, 1950- |
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| Other Authors: | Cornish, Megan. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Seattle, WA :
Red Letter Press,
2008.
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| Physical Description: |
366 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
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.