The Politics of Chicano Liberation

By Olga Rodríguez

Book Overview

Lessons from the rise of the Chicano movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, which dealt lasting blows against the oppression of the Chicano people. Presents a fighting program for those... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873485149
• ISBN13: 9780873485142
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Pathfinder
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Chicano Movement--More Important Than Ever

Anyone who wants to fight for social change needs to support, study, and learn from the Chicano movement. This book is the place to start. It gives the best explanation anywhere of the dynamics of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on issues that were important than and have become even more important today, such as: the movement to halt the deportation of and brutality toward Mexican workers; the need for bi-lingual, bi-cultural education (in recent years, groupings of Chicano youth have shown their fighting spirit on this issue, effectively answering Patrick Buchanan's "culture war"); police brutality; and Chicana feminism. There is a very valuable discussion of the accomplishments and limitations of Chicano nationalism in the electoral arena and an account of the Chicano Moratorium Against the War in Vietnam, which helps us understand the potential for a working class fight against war today.