Building comunidad in Chicana/o Sacramento -- Politics of speaking for la gente in a desegregation case -- Chicana/o cannery workers resist through union organizing -- Chicana/o and Native American students form cross- ethnic community
Summary
"La Gente traces the rise of the Chicana/o Movement in Sacramento and the role of everyday people in galvanizing a collective to seek lasting and transformative change during the 1960s and 1970s. In their efforts to be self-determined, la gente contested multiple forms of oppression at school, at work sites, and in their communities"-- Provided by publisher