Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword: The Chicano Movement: Does Anyone Care about What Happened 40 Years Ago?
Jorge Mariscal
Introduction: The Chicano Movement and Chicano Historiography
Mario T. García
Part One: Community Struggles
1. "All I Want is that He Be Punished": Border Patrol Violence, Women’s Voices and Chicano Activism in Early 1970s San Diego
Jimmy Patiño
2. Reinscribing the Voices of La Gente in the Narrative of the Chicano Movement
Lorena V. Márquez
3. "Hoo-ray Gonzales!" Civil Rights Protest and Chicano Politics in Bakersfield, 1965-1974
Oliver Rosales
4. Alicia Escalante, The Chicana Welfare Rights Organization, and the Chicano Movement
Rosie Bermúdez
5. Chicana/o Movement Grassroots Leftists and Radical Electoral Politics in Los Angeles, 1970-1980
José G. Moreno
6. ¡Ya Basta! The Struggle for Justice and Equality: The Chicano Power Movement in Oxnard, California
Luis H. Moreno
Part Two: The Student Movement
7. The Ideological Struggle for Chicana/o Unity and Power: A Short History of California M.E.Ch.A.
Gustavo Licón
8. Understanding the Role of Conflict, Factionalism, and Schism in the Development of the Chicano Student Movement: The Mexican American Student Association and La Vida Nueva at East Los Angeles College
Marisol Moreno
Part Three: Geographic Diversity and the Chicano Movement
9. San Antonio Chicano Organizers (SACO): Labor Activists and El Movimiento
Max Krochmal
10. "We Are a Distinct People": Defending Difference in Schools through the Chicano Movement in Michigan, 1966-1980
Nora Salas
11. Sin Fronteras: An Oral History of a Chicana Activist in Oregon during the Chicano Movement
Norma Cárdenas
Contributor Biographies
Index