Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945-1975

by Frank P. Barajas

In Mexican Americans with Moxie Frank P. Barajas argues that Chicanas and Chicanos of the 1960s and 1970s expressed politics distinct from the Mexican American generation that came of age in the decades prior. Barajas focuses on the citrus communities of Fillmore and Santa Paula and the more economically diversified and populated rurban municipalities of Oxnard, Simi Valley, and Ventura, illustrating Ventura County's relationship to Los Angeles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496207637
• ISBN13: 9781496207630
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"