The Chicano Movement

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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. Garcia 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 Patino 2. Reinscribing the Voices of La Gente in the Narrative of the Chicano Movement Lorena V. Marquez 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 Bermudez 5. Chicana/o Movement Grassroots Leftists and Radical Electoral Politics in Los Angeles, 1970-1980 Jose 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 Licon 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 Cardenas Contributor Biographies Index