Review: Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, by Frank P. Barajas

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Book Review| February 01 2023 Review: Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, by Frank P. Barajas Frank P. Barajas. Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 288 pp. Photographs, illustrations, and map. Hardcover $60.00. Tomás F. Summers Sandoval, Jr. Tomás F. Summers Sandoval, Jr. TOMÁS F. SUMMERS SANDOVAL JR. is an associate professor of history and Chicanx-Latinx studies at Pomona College. He is the author of Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco (2013) and is currently president of the Oral History Association. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (1): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.109 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Tomás F. Summers Sandoval; Review: Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, by Frank P. Barajas. California History 1 February 2023; 100 (1): 109–111. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.109 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search How did a multigenerational population of ethnic Mexicans in Ventura County express a collective politics in the mid-twentieth century? This question lies at the heart of the new book by Frank P. Barajas (California State University, Channel Islands), a thorough local history of the Chicano movement that also makes significant interventions in the broader historical understanding of the era. In Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975, Barajas outlines the postwar political efforts of Mexican Americans in the region, from movements “with increased fervor for an equal education” to those “in defense of a largely migrant-Mexicanist population of workers” (82, 139). The ethnic Mexican population at the center of the story was more variegated than homogeneous. While they built from a common ground, sharing a “farmworker provenance” and a sense of purpose and action, differences of generation, nativity, and even... You do not currently have access to this content.