Title "Mi raza primero!" (My people first!) : nationalism, identity, and insurgency in the Chicano movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 / Ernesto Chávez

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 166 p.) Contents "A movable object meeting an irresistible force": Los Angeles's ethnic Mexican community in the 1950s and early 1960s -- "Birth of a new symbol": The brown berets -- Chale no, we won't go!": The Chicano Moratorium Committee -- "The voice of the Chicano people": La Raza Unida Party -- "Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras": The Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (CASA) -- Afterword: "Why are we not marching like in the '70s?" Summary "!Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale-in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chavez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: The Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo, commonly known as CASA. Chavez examines and chronicles the ideas and tactics of the insurgency's leaders and their followers who, while differing in their goals and tactics, nonetheless came together as Chicanos and reformers. Deftly combining personal recollection and interviews of movement participants with an array of archival, newspaper, and secondary sources, Chavez provides an absorbing account of the events that constituted the Los Angeles-based Chicano movement. At the same time he offers insights into the emergence and the fate of the movement elsewhere. He presents a critical analysis of the concept of Chicano nationalism, an idea shared by all leaders of the insurgency, and places it within a larger global and comparative framework. Examining such variables as gender, class, age, and power relationships, this book offers a sophisticated consideration of how ethnic nationalism and identity functioned in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-157) and index Notes English Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Politics and government -- 20th century Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Ethnic identity Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century Chicano movement -- California -- Los Angeles HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Chicano movement Ethnic relations Mexican Americans -- Civil rights Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity Mexican Americans -- Politics and government Politics and government SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations Subject California -- Los Angeles Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021696335 ISBN 9780520935969 0520935969 1417523883 9781417523887 1597347485 9781597347488 9786612762536 6612762535 9781282762534 1282762532

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